Positive Opening of day for the Taiwan Weightedwhich inaugurates the session of Friday, May 2 with promotions of the 1,74%to the 20,587.03 pointsafter the opening. With respect to past days, the Taiwan Weighted Chained five consecutive earnings sessions.
Taking into account the last seven days, the Taiwan Weighted Write down a 5.69%increase, so that for a year it still maintains a rise in the 3,44%. He Taiwan Weighted It is located 13,25% below its maximum of this year (23,730.25 points) and a 18,37% above its minimum price of the current year (17,391.76 points).
A stock market index It is an indicator used to show the evolution of the price of a specific asset setfor 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 various countries and Each of them can be integrated by signatures with specific characteristics such as a similar stock capitalization or belonging to the same industry, also, there are some indices that only take into account a fist of shares to determine their value or others that consider hundreds of actions.
Stock indices serve as Indicator of confidence in the stock market, business confidence, the health of the national and global economy and the performance of investments in shares and participations of a company. Generally, if investors have no confidence, actions prices tend to fall.
They also work 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 wallets.
These types of indicators began to be used at the end of the 19th century after The journalist Charles H. Dow. He would carefully investigate how the shares of the companies tended to raise or lower price joints, so he created two indexes: one that contained the 20 most important rail companies (as it was the most important industry of the time), as well as 12 actions of other types of businesses
Today in humanity there are various indices and They can agglomerate according to their geography, sectors, the size of the companies or even the type of assetfor example, the American Nasdaq index is composed of the 100 largest companies mostly related to technologies such as Apple (AAPL), Microsoft (MSFT), Amazon (AMZN), Facebook (FB), Alphabet (Goog), Tesla (Tsla), Nvidia (NVDA), Paypal (Pypl), Comcast (CMCSA) (ADBE).
Each stock index has its own way of calculatingbut the main factor is the stock market capitalization of each company that integrates it. This is removed by multiplying the value of the day of the action in the corresponding stock market by the total shares that are in the market.
The companies that appear in the stock exchange are obliged to present a balance of its composition. This report must be notified every three or six months, as appropriate.
Reading a stock market also requires being careful of your changes over time. Current indices always begin with a fixed value based on values prices On its start date, but not everyone follows this method. Therefore, it may seem misleading.
If an index sees an increase of 500 points in one day, while another only adds 20, it might seem that the former had a better profitability. But, if the first began the day at 30,000 points and the other in 300, it can be concluded that, in percentage terms, the profits for the second were larger.
Among the main stock market indices from the United States is the Dow Jones Industrial Avenge, better known as Dow Jonescomposed of 30 companies. Similarly, the S&P 500which includes 500 of the largest companies in 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 important indices of Europa They are the Eurostoxx 50which covers the 50 most important companies of the Eurozone. In addition, the DAX 30the main German index that contains the strongest companies in the Frankfurt Stock Exchange; the FTSE 100 of the London Stock Exchange; he CAC 40 of the Paris Stock Exchange; and the IBEX 35of the Spanish Stock Exchange.
In The Asian continentthe main stock market indices are the Nikkei 225composed of the 225 most important companies in the Tokyo Stock Exchange. In addition, the SSE Composite Indexwhich appears as the most notable in China, made up of the most prominent companies in the Shanghai Stock Exchange. The same role that play the Hang Seung Index In Hong Kong and the Kospi In South Korea.
Regarding Latin Americayou have the IPCwhich contains 35 most prestigious signatures of the Mexican Stock Exchange (BMV). At least a third of them belong to the capital of the magnate Carlos Slim.
Another is the Bovespacomposed of the 50 most important companies of the Sao Paulo Stock Exchange; he Merval from Argentina; he IPSA of Chile; he MSCI COLCAP of Colombia; he IBC from Caracas, made up of 6 companies in Venezuela.
There are also other types of global stock market rates such as MSCI Latin Americawhich includes the 137 most important companies in Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru.
Similarly, there is the MSCI Worldwhich includes 1600 companies from 23 developed countries; he MSCI Emerging Marketscomposed of more than 800 companies in developing countries; and the S&P Global 100made up of the 100 most powerful multinational firms on the entire planet.
