Day without changes for him KOSPIwhich opens the session on Monday, June 17 with a variation of the 0.01%until the 2,758.01 points, after the start of the opening session. In relation to the variations of this day with respect to previous days, the KOSPI short with the streak of market prices of the last four days.
Regarding the last seven days, the KOSPI marks a rise in 2.1%%which is why for a year it has still maintained an increase in 5.44%. He KOSPI is located a 0.01% below its maximum of this year (2,758.42 points) and a 13.22% above its minimum valuation so far this year (2,435.90 points).
A stock index is an indicator used to show the evolution of the value of a given set of assetsso it takes data from various companies or sectors of a fragment of the market.
These indicators are mainly used by the stock exchanges of various countries and each of them can be integrated by firms with specific characteristics such as having a similar market capitalization or belonging to the same type of business. In addition, there are some indices that only consider a handful of shares to determine their value or others that consider hundreds of shares.
Stock market indices serve as indicator of stock market confidence, business confidence, health of the national and global economy, and stock investment performance and shares of a company. Generally, if investors do not have confidence, stock prices would tend to fall.
Likewise, they function to measure the performance of an asset manager and allow investors to make comparisons between profitability and risk; measure the opportunities of a financial asset or create portfolios.
This type of indicators began to be used at the end of the 19th century after the journalist Charles H. Dow. observed carefully how company shares tended to rise or fall in price together, so he created two indices: one that contained the 20 most important railway companies (as it was the most important industry at the time), as well as 12 shares of other types of businesses
Nowadays there are various indices and They can be associated based on their geography, sectors, company size or also the type of assetFor example, the US Nasdaq index is made up of the 100 largest companies mostly related to technology such as Apple (AAPL), Microsoft (MSFT), Amazon (AMZN), Facebook (FB), Alphabet (GOOG), Tesla (TSLA ), Nvidia (NVDA), PayPal (PYPL), Comcast (CMCSA), Adobe (ADBE).
Each stock index has its own way of calculating, but the main factor is the market capitalization of each firm that comprises it. This is obtained by multiplying the day’s value of the security in the corresponding stock market by the total shares that are in the hands of investors.
Companies listed on the stock exchange are required to present a balance of its composition. Said report must be disclosed every three or six months, as the case may be.
Reading a stock index also requires being aware of its changes over time. New indices always open with a fixed value based on stock prices on your start date, but not everyone follows this method. Therefore, it may seem misleading.
If one index grows 500 points in one day, while another only gains 20, it might appear that the first index performed better. However, if the first started the day at 30,000 points and the other at 300, it can be assumed that, in percentage terms, the gains for the second were larger.
Between the main stock indices in the American Union There is the Dow Jones Industrial Average, better known as Dow Jones, of which 30 companies are part. Also, the S&P 500, which includes 500 of the largest companies on the New York Stock Exchange. Finally, there appears Nasdaq 100which associates 100 of the largest non-financial firms.
On the other hand, the most notable indices of Europe are the Eurostoxx 50, which covers the 50 most important companies in the eurozone. On the other hand, the DAX 30, the main German index that contains the most prominent companies on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange; the FTSE 100 from the London Stock Exchange; he CAC 40 from the Paris Stock Exchange; and the IBEX 35from the Spanish stock market.
In Asiathe main stock indices are the Nikkei 225, made up of the 225 largest companies on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. There is also the SSE Composite Index, which appears as the predominant one in China, made up of the most relevant companies on the Shanghai Stock Exchange. Likewise, it is worth mentioning the Hang Seung Index in Hong Kong and KOSPI in South Korea.
Talking about Latin Americayou have the CPIwhich contains the 35 most outstanding firms on the Mexican Stock Exchange (BMV). At least a third of them are owned by tycoon Carlos Slim.
Another is the Bovespa, made up of the 50 most important companies on the Sao Paulo Stock Exchange; he Merval from Argentina; he IPSA From Chile; he MSCI COLCAP from Colombia; he IBC of Caracas, made up of 6 companies from Venezuela.
Finally, there are other types of global stock indices such as the MSCI Latin Americawhich includes the 137 most important companies in Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru.
Likewise, there is the MSCI World, which includes 1,600 companies from 23 developed countries; he MSCI Emerging Markets, made up of more than 800 companies from developing countries; and the S&P Global 100made up of the 100 most powerful multinational firms on the entire planet.
