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- NASDAQ-100. Average volume: 5.737 bln. Code: NDX. Country: USA. Weighting method: capitalization-weighted. National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation or NASDAQ is one of the largest US indices.
- S&P 500. Average volume: 4.996 bln. Code: SPX. Country: USA. Weighting method: free-float capitalization-weighted. Standard and Poor's Composite 500 Index is one of the main American stock indices.
- Hang Seng Index. Average volume: 2.929 bln. Code: HSI. Country: Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China. Weighting method: capitalization-weighted.
- FTSE 100. Average volume: 905.89 mln. Code: FTSE. Country: UK. Weighting method: capitalization-weighted. The Financial Times Stock Exchange is the major index of the UK.
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The world’s first stock index appeared in July 1884 when the ‘Dow Jones Transportation Index’ was published in the US by newspaperman Charles Dow. The index comprised 11 transport stocks including nine railway companies, a steamship company and a telegraph operator. The index average was calculated by adding all its share prices together and dividi...
Each stock market index uses its own formula when deciding which companies (or other investments) to include. Indices that focus on the performance of a wide sweep of the market may only decide to include companies that rank highly in terms of market capitalisation – the total value of all of their shares. Alternatively, companies may be selected b...
FTSE 100 The Financial Times Stock Exchange 100, also known as the FTSE 100 or ‘Footsie’, is an index of the UK’s 100 largest companies that make up part of the London Stock Exchange (LSE). The LSE itself comprises more than 1,300 companies. The FTSE 100 is market-cap weighted. For inclusion, a company must be listed on the LSE, be denominated in p...
One way to gain exposure to entire stock market indices is to invest in ‘passive’ investments such asindex tracker orexchange-traded funds(ETFs). Each is a form of collective investment that pools the contributions of, potentially, thousands of investors to create one investing pot. You can read about thedifferences between index trackers and ETFsh...
Real-time charts for major world stock market indices including the latest price, daily high, low and percentage changes across each index.
NameLastHighLow42,141.5442,457.9242,141.545,813.675,850.945,811.2818,607.9318,785.5018,598.24Small Cap 2000 derived2,232.502,262.302,227.30View Index. All data delayed at least 15 minutes. Current and historical index data for the diverse suite of FTSE indices, including FTSE 100.
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