Negative day for the OMXS 30which begins the session on Thursday, June 27 with slight drops in the 0.37%until the 2,562.81 points, after opening. If we compare the data with previous days, the OMXS 30 reverses the data from the previous session, when it ended with an increase of 1.27%, showing that it is not able to establish a clear trend lately.
In relation to the profitability of the last week, the OMXS 30 records an increase in 0.34%% and in the last year it still maintains an increase in 13.29%. He OMXS 30 is located a 2.98% below its maximum of this year (2,641.47 points) and a 11.53% above its minimum price of the current year (2,297.85 points).
A stock market index It is an indicator that shows how the price of a certain set of assets changesso it collects data from different companies or sectors in a part 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 certain characteristics such as having a similar market capitalization or belonging to the same type of industry. Likewise, there are some indices that only take into account a handful of shares to determine their value or others that consider hundreds of shares.
Stock 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 lack confidence, stock prices tend to fall.
Likewise, they function to measure the performance of an asset manager and allow investors to compare 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 analyzed 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 in humanity there are various indexes and They can be grouped based on 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 calculation method, 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 shares that are in the hands of the investors.
Companies that appear on the stock exchange are required to present a balance of its composition. This report must be published every three or six months, as appropriate.
Reading a stock index also means being careful about its evolution over time. Current indices always appear with a fixed value based on security prices on your start date, but not everyone follows this method. Therefore, it can confuse.
If one index grows 500 points in a day, while another only achieves 20, it could appear that the first had a better return. 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 larger.
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. Likewise, the S&P 500which includes 500 of the largest companies on the New York Stock Exchange. Finally, we must not forget the Nasdaq 100which associates 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 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 Indexwhich is listed as the most notable in China, made up of the most relevant companies on the Shanghai Stock Exchange. Also worth mentioning is 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 outstanding 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.
Also, there are other types of global stock indices such as 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.
