Good session for the ATXwhich ended on Friday, June 28, with slight rises in the 0.23%until the 3,609.47 points. He ATX marked the maximum number of 3,618.83 points and the minimum figure of 3,595.81 points. The trading range for the ATX between its highest and lowest point (maximum-minimum) during this day it stood at the 0.64%.
In relation to the last week, the ATX accumulates an increase of 0.5%%so that for a year it has still maintained an increase in 13.56%. He ATX is situated a 4.4% below its maximum so far this year (3,775.49 points) and a 8.49% above its lowest rating for the current year (3,327.04 points).
A stock index is an indicator that shows how the value of a set of assets changesfor which it collects data from different companies or sectors of a part of the market.
These indicators are mainly used by the stock exchanges of different countries around the world and each of them can be integrated by firms with certain characteristics such as having a similar market capitalization or belonging to the same industry. In addition, 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, share 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 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 our economy there are various indexes and They can congregate based on geography, sectors, company size or even asset type.For example, the American 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 day’s value of the share 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 to present a balance sheet of its composition. This report must be notified every three or six months, as the case may be.
Reading a stock index also requires noticing its evolution 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 be misleading.
If one index rises 500 points in a day, while another only adds 20, it might seem that the former performed better. However, if the former started the day at 30,000 points and the other at 300, it can be assumed that, in percentage terms, the gains for the latter 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 brings together 100 of the largest non-financial firms.
On the other hand, the most important indexes of Europe are the Eurostoxx 50which covers the 50 largest 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 of the London Stock Exchange; 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 Indexis seen as China’s main exchange, made up of the most relevant companies on the Shanghai Stock Exchange. The same role is played by the 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 assets of tycoon Carlos Slim.
Another is the Bovespacomposed of the 50 most important companies on the Sao Paulo Stock Exchange; 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.
