Optimistic openness for the Nikkei 225which inaugurates the day of Friday, May 2 with increases from the 1,04%to the 36,830.69 pointsafter the start of the opening session. Regarding past days, the Nikkei 225 Accumulate seven successive profits.
Taking into account the last week, the Nikkei 225 records a 5.11%ascent; on the contrary, for a year, a decrease in 1,62%. He Nikkei 225 It is located 8,11% below its maximum of this year (40,083.30 points) and a 18,29% above its minimum price of the current year (31,136.58 points).
A stock market index It is an indicator that shows how the price of a certain asset set changesso that data from different companies or sectors of a market fragment is served.
These indicators are mainly used by the stock exchanges of different countries of the world and Each of them can be integrated by signatures with concrete requirements such as having a similar stock market capitalization or belonging to the same type of industry, in addition, there are some indices that only consider a fist of actions to determine their value or others that consider hundreds of actions.
Stock indices serve as Trust indicator in the stock market, business trust, 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 would have a tendency to fall.
They also work to measure the Performance of an asset manager and allow investors to have comparisons 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. They would carefully observe how the shares of the companies tended to raise or lower price joints, so it 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
There are currently various indices and They can be added depending on their geographical location, the sectors, the size of the companies or also 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 calculation methodbut the main component is the stock market capitalization of each firm that integrates it. This is obtained by multiplying the value of the day of the title in the corresponding stock market by the total shares that are in the market.
Companies found in the stock market are obliged to present a balance of its composition. This report must be delivered every three or six months, as appropriate.
Reading a stock market also implies taking into account its modifications over time. The new indices always appear with a fixed value based on the prices of values On its start date, but not everyone follows this method. Therefore, it can be a source of ambiguity.
If an index is enhanced at 500 points in one day, while another only adds 20, it might seem that the former had a better performance. However, if the first began the day at 30,000 points and the other in 300, it can be seen that, in percentage terms, the profits for the second were more important.
Among the main stock market indices from the United States is the Dow Jones Industrial Avenge, better known as Dow Jonesmade up of 30 companies. Also, the S&P 500which contemplates 500 of the largest companies in the New York Stock Exchange. Finally, 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. On the other hand, 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 continentwe have the Nikkei 225composed of the 225 most important companies in the Tokyo Stock Exchange. In addition, the SSE Composite Indexwhich can be considered China’s principal, made up of the most prominent companies in the Shanghai Stock Exchange. Similarly, it is worth mentioning the Hang Seung Index In Hong Kong and the Kospi In South Korea.
Regarding The Latin American regionyou have the IPCwhich contains 35 most consolidated 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.
Similarly, there are other types of global stock market indices 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.
