The Pacific Stock Exchange. A price-weighted, broad-based index of 100 exchange-listed and over the counter stocks. This index populates fifteen industries and, as of the end of 1995, it represented a market capitalization of nearly $600 billion. The industry groups include biotechnology, CAD/CAM, data communications, micro-computer manufacturing, office automation equipment, semiconductor capital equipment manufacturing, data storage and processing, large diversified computer manufacturing, electronic equipment, information processing, medical technology, semiconductor manufacturing, software products, and test, analysis, and instrumentation equipment.