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The French Market (French: Marché français) is a market and series of commercial buildings spanning six blocks in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana. Founded as a Native American trading post predating European colonization, the market is the oldest of its kind in the United States. [ 1 ]
The CAC 40 (French pronunciation: [kak kaʁɑ̃t]) (Cotation Assistée en Continu) is a benchmark French stock market index. The index represents a capitalization-weighted measure of the 40 most significant stocks among the 100 largest market caps on the Euronext Paris (formerly the Paris Bourse). It is a price return index.
French West Africa was the primary source of coffee for the French market and a major source of cocoa. Sugar was supplied from Martinique, Réunion, and Guadeloupe. The colonies in north Africa, West Africa, and the Caribbean provided a range of tropical fruits like bananas, citrus, pineapples, and coconuts.
The economy of France is a highly developed social market economy with notable state participation in strategic sectors. [29] It is the world's seventh-largest economy by nominal GDP and the ninth-largest economy by PPP, [30] constituting around 4% of world GDP. [31]
The meat sector of the Rungis wholesale market The fresh fish and seafood pavilion in Rungis. The Rungis International Market (French: Marché International de Rungis, pronounced [maʁʃe ɛ̃tɛʁnɑsjɔnal də ʁœ̃ʒis]) is the principal wholesale market of Paris and mainly deals in food and horticultural products.
Interior of Rouses Market in New Orleans Central Business District, 2011. In 1960, Anthony Rouse Sr. (son of J. P. Rouse) and his cousin, Ciro DiMarco, opened a 7,000-square-foot (650 m 2) grocery store in Houma, Louisiana. In the 1970s, Ciro decided to exit the business and sold his portion of the business to Anthony's son, Ryan Rouse.
Carrefour Brasil, the largest market outside France, [63] was founded in 1975 and today is the major supermarket chain in Brazil in competition with Grupo Pão de Açúcar. Currently it sells more than 25 million products per year.
The Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF) (English: "Financial Markets Authority") is the securities commission in France.The AMF is an independent public body that is responsible for safeguarding investments in financial instruments and in all other savings and investments, as well as maintaining orderly financial markets.