day of slight movements for the Kospiwhich ended the session on Wednesday, May 7 with a variation of the 0,18%to the 2,564.36 points. He Kospi He scored a maximum of 2,581.85 points and a minimum volume of 2,564.36 points. The contribution range for the Kospi between its highest and lowest (maximum) 0,68%.
Regarding the last week, the Kospi accumulates a 0.71%increase; But in the last year he still accumulates a decrease in 1,06%. He Kospi It is located 4,01% below its maximum of this year (2,671.52 points) and a 11,8% above its minimum valuation so far this year (2,293.70 points).
A stock market index It is an indicator that shows how the value of a set of assets changesfor which you need to have data from different companies or sectors of a part of the market.
These indicators are mainly used by the stock exchanges of the countries and Each of them can be integrated by signatures with concrete requirements such as a similar stock capitalization or belonging to the same industry, in addition, there are some indices that only consider a fist of shares 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. If investors have no confidence, the values of the shares tend 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. He saw carefully 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 there are various indices and They can be grouped according to their geographical location, the sectors, the size of the companies or even the type of assetfor example, the American Nasdaq index is composed of the 100 largest companies largely 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 being measuredbut the main factor 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 that quote on the Stock Exchange are obliged to present a balance of its composition. Said report must be published every three or six months, as appropriate.
Reading a stock index also requires being careful of your alterations over time. Current indices always open with a fixed value based on shares prices On its start date, but not everyone follows this method. Therefore, it may seem misleading.
If an index is enhanced at 500 points in one day, while another only gets 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 larger.
Among the main stock market indices from the United States is the Dow Jones Industrial Avenge, better known as Dow Joneswhich is made up of 30 companies. Also, the S&P 500which encompasses 500 of the largest companies in the New York Stock Exchange. Finally, the Nasdaq 100which unites 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. Also, the DAX 30the main German index that contains the most outstanding 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 preponderant of 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 consolidated signatures of the Mexican Stock Exchange (BMV). At least a third of them are owned by 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.
Finally, there are 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.
