The Indian index opens this March 9

Opening day of small movements Nifty 50It begins with a variation on Thursday, March 9 0.13%Until then 17,730.75 points, after the initial session begins. Compared to previous days, the Nifty 50 Interrupts the series of market prices of the last three sessions.

If we consider last week’s data, the Nifty 50 A promotion 1.6%So it is still increasing from a year ago 9.14%. He Nifty 50 A 2.75% Highest this year (18,232.55 points) and A 2.47% Above its lowest estimate so far this year (17,303.95 points).

A stock index It is an indicator that shows how the price of a set of assets is developing.It uses data from various companies or segments of a market segment.

These indicators are mainly used by stock markets of various countries Each of them can be aggregated by entities with certain characteristics In addition, there are some indices that take into account only a few stocks to determine their value, or others that consider hundreds of stocks, such as belonging to the same market capitalization or the same type of industry.

Stock indices serve An indicator of confidence in the stock market, business confidence, the health of the national and global economy, and the performance of investments in stocks and shares of a company. If investors lack confidence, stock prices will fall.

They also work to scale Performance of an asset manager And they allow investors to make trade-offs between return and risk; Measuring financial asset prospects or building portfolios.

These types of indicators began to be used at the end of the 19th century Journalist Charles H. Dow. He carefully observed how companies’ stocks rose or fell together in price, so he created two indexes: one that consisted of the 20 most important railroad companies (as they were the most important industry at the time), as well as 12 stocks. Other types of businesses

Currently there are various codes They can aggregate based on their geographical location, sectors, company size or asset class.For example, the US Nasdaq index is composed of 100 major technology-related companies such as Apple (AAPL), Microsoft (MSFT), Amazon (AMZN), Facebook (FB), Alphabet (GOOG), and Tesla (TSLA). , Nvidia (NVDA), PayPal (PYPL), Comcast (CMCSA), Adobe (ADPE).

Each stock index has its own calculation method, but the key factor is the market capitalization of each company that integrates it. It is obtained by multiplying the daily value of the security in the relevant stock market by the total number of shares in circulation in the market.

Public trading companies are required Present the balance Its composition. A report should be provided every three or six months, as the case may be.

Reading a stock index means watching its evolution over time. New indices always appear with fixed value based on stock prices on their start date, but not everyone follows this pattern. Hence, it leads to errors.

If one index adds 500 points in a day and the other gains only 20 points, it will outperform the former. But if the first day starts at 30,000 points and the other at 300 points, we can conclude that in percentage terms, the second profit was more significant.

between Major US stock indices The Dow Jones Industrial Average, better known as Dow Jones, which is made up of 30 companies. Likewise, the S&P 500, which includes the 500 largest companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Finally, it is worth mentioning Nasdaq 100It brings together 100 largest non-financial corporations.

On the other hand, very important codes Europe is Eurostax 50, which includes the 50 largest companies in the euro area. On the other hand, the DAX 30, the main German index containing the most important companies on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange; The FTSE 100 From the London Stock Exchange; He ACC 40 From the Paris Stock Exchange; And this IBEX 35From the Spanish Stock Exchange.

In Asian continentWe have Nikki 225The Tokyo Stock Exchange consists of 225 major companies. Also, the SSE Composite Index, is considered the most representative of China, made up of the most relevant companies on the Shanghai Stock Exchange. Same role played Hang Cheung Index in Hong Kong and Cosby In South Korea.

talking about Latin AmericaYou have CBIIt contains 35 most consolidated companies on the Mexican Stock Exchange (BMV).. At least a third of them are from boss Carlos Slim’s capital.

The other is Bovespa, made up of the 50 most important companies on the São Paulo Stock Exchange; He Marvel From Argentina; He IPSA From Chile; He MSCI COLCAP From Colombia; He IBC De Caracas is made up of 6 companies from Venezuela.

Also, there are other categories such as global stock market indices MSCI Latin AmericaIncludes 137 of the most important companies in Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru.

Similarly, there is 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 this S&P Global 100Made up of the 100 most powerful multinational corporations on the entire planet.