Negative opening of the day for the KOSPIwhich opens the session on Thursday, June 27 with falls of 0.78%until the 2,770.35 points, after the start of the opening session. Regarding days gone by, the KOSPI stops with the positive streak of market prices of the last two days.
Taking into account the last seven days, the KOSPI registers a decrease in 1.33%%; Despite this, in year-on-year terms it still accumulates an increase in 6.16%. He KOSPI is located a 1.33% below its maximum of this year (2,807.63 points) and a 13.73% above its minimum price so far this year (2,435.90 points).
A stock index It is an indicator that is used to know the evolution of the value of a certain set of assetsfor which it uses data from various companies or sectors of a fragment of the market.
These indicators are mainly used by the stock exchanges of each country and each of them can be integrated by firms with different specificities such as having a similar market capitalization or belonging to the same industry. 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 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. 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
Currently in humanity there are various indices and They can congregate based on their geographical location, sectors, company size or also the type of assetFor 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 daily value of the bond in the corresponding stock market by the total number of shares that are in the market.
Companies listed on the stock exchange 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 taking into account its variations over time. New indices always open 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 grows 500 points in one day, while another only adds 20, it might appear that the first had a better return. However, if the first started the day at 30,000 points and the other at 300, it can be derived that, in percentage terms, the gains for the second were greater.
Between the main stock indices in the American Union There is the Dow Jones Industrial Average, better known as Dow Jones, made up of 30 companies. Likewise, the S&P 500, which includes 500 of the largest companies on the New York Stock Exchange. Finally, we must not forget the Nasdaq 100which unites 100 of the largest non-financial firms.
On the other hand, the most important 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 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 prominent companies on the Shanghai Stock Exchange. The same role played by Hang Seung Index in Hong Kong and KOSPI in South Korea.
Talking about Latin Americayou have the CPIwhich contains the 35 most influential 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.
