Good start to the day for him Nikkei 225which begins the day on Wednesday, June 26 with slight increases in 0.31%until the 39,294.15 points, after the start of the opening session. Regarding days gone by, the Nikkei 225 chain three successive days in positive figures.
In relation to the last week, the Nikkei 225 accumulates an increase of 1.88%%so that in the last year there is still an increase in 17.75%. He Nikkei 225 is located a 3.9% below its maximum of this year (40,888.43 points) and a 18.04% above its minimum price of the current year (33,288.29 points).
A stock index It is an indicator that shows how the value of a set of assets evolvesfor which it collects data from different companies or sectors of a fragment of the market.
These indicators are mainly used by the stock exchanges of various nations 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 industry. Also, 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 a comparison 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. carefully investigated 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
Currently in our economy there are various indices and They can congregate based on their geographic location, sectors, company size or even asset type.For 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 being measured, but the main factor is the market capitalization of each company that comprises it. This is obtained by multiplying the day’s value of the share in the corresponding stock market by the total number of shares that are in circulation in the market.
Companies that are listed on the stock market are required to present a balance of its composition. This report must be submitted every three or six months, as the case may be.
Reading a stock index also requires observing its changes over time. New indices always appear with a fixed value based on security prices on your start date, but not everyone follows this method. Therefore, it can be a source of misunderstandings.
If one index adds 500 points in a day, while another only achieves 20, it might appear that the first one performed better. But, 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 more important.
Between the major US stock indices There is the Dow Jones Industrial Average, better known as Dow Jones, which is made up of 30 companies. Also, the S&P 500which comprises 500 of the largest companies on the New York Stock Exchange. Finally, comes the Nasdaq 100which brings together 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 strongest 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 the asian continentwe have the Nikkei 225, made up of the 225 largest companies on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. There is also the SSE Composite Index, which can be considered the most notable 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 the latin american regionyou have the CPIwhich contains the 35 most prestigious firms on the Mexican Stock Exchange (BMV). At least a third of them are part of the estate of 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.
Likewise, 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.
