World's Least Populated National Benchmark Still Has a Vacancy
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There aren’t enough eligible stocks to fill the developed world’s least-populated national benchmark.
Portugal’s PSI 20 Index, which despite its name currently has just 17 members, will welcome two more at the end of this week -- Ibersol SGPS SA and Novabase SGPS SA. While the additions will inflate the number of companies in the gauge to the highest since 2014, they will only boost its market value by 3 percent, and still leave it one short of a full gauge.