Category: STOCK INDICES

For most non-experts in financial investment issues, the stock market is and will continue to be the main reference when thinking about financial markets. After all, stock markets such as the IBEX 35, the Down Jones, the Nasdaq...

The Nikkei 225 is a stock market index of the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE). It is calculated daily by the newspaper Nihon Keizai Shimbun (Nikkei). It was first calculated in 1950 and is the most common to talk about Japanese...

The DAX 30 (its full name is Deutscher Aktien IndeX, which means German stock index) is made up of 30 large first-class German companies listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. Like the FTSE 100 and the S&P 500, it is a...

The FTSE 100 (known as “footsie”) is an index composed of 100 companies listed on the London Stock Exchange with maximum market capitalization. Like the S&P 500, it is a capitalized weighted index. The FTSE is one of the...

The Standard and Poor’s 500 (or, as it is most frequently known, the S&P 500) is a stock index composed of 500 large publicly traded companies in the United States. These companies are selected by the Standard and...