Good login for the OMXS 30which begins the session on Wednesday, June 26 with increases of 0.58%until the 2,576.37 points, after the start of the opening session. Comparing this data with that of previous days, the OMXS 30 It reverses the data from the previous day in which it experienced a decrease of 0.81%, showing itself unable to establish a clear trend recently.
In relation to the profitability of the last week, the OMXS 30 marks a rise of 0.38%% and in the last year it still accumulates an increase of 14.78%. He OMXS 30 is located a 2.46% below its maximum so far this year (2,641.47 points) and a 12.12% above its minimum price of the current year (2,297.85 points).
A stock index It is an indicator used to show the evolution of the price of a set of assetsso it collects data from different companies or sectors of a part 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, there are also some indices that only take into account 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 an entity. 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. looked closely at 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
Today there are various indexes and They can be brought together 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 largely 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 component 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.
Firms listed on the stock exchange are required to present a balance of its composition. This report must be made public every three or six months, as appropriate.
Reading a stock index also requires observing its variations over time. New indices always start with a fixed value based on security prices on your start date, but not everyone follows this method. Therefore, it can lead to inaccuracies.
If one index gains 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, you can see that, in percentage terms, the gains for the second were more notable.
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 500, which includes 500 of the largest companies on the New York Stock Exchange. Finally, there appears 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. Furthermore, the DAX 30, the main German index that contains the most prominent companies on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange; the FTSE 100 of the London Stock Exchange; CAC 40 from the Paris Stock Exchange; and the IBEX 35from the Spanish stock market.
In the asian continentthe main stock indices are the Nikkei 225made up of the 225 largest companies on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. It also includes the SSE Composite Index, which can be considered the most representative of 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 powerful 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.
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.
