Upbeat opening for Bell-20 indexwhich begins the market session on Wednesday, November 12, in increments of 0.9%until 5,086.72 pointsafter the opening. Regarding today’s changes compared to previous days, the index collects three consecutive sessions of positive numbers.
And in the last seven days Bell-20 index It recorded an increase of 3.83% and for a year it still maintains the increase 22.27%.
Stock index It is an indicator that shows how the price of a particular group of assets is evolvingso you need data from several companies or sectors in a part of the market.
These indicators are mainly used by stock exchanges in various countries Each of them can be combined by companies with specific characteristics Such as having a similar market value or belonging to the same type of industry. There are also some indicators that take into account only a handful of stocks to determine their value, or other indicators that take into account hundreds of stocks.
Stock market indices act as Stock market confidence index, business confidence, national and global economic health, and stock investment performance And company shares. If investors lack confidence, stock prices tend to fall.
Likewise, they work to measure Asset manager performance Allow investors to compare profitability and risk; Measure financial asset opportunities or create portfolios.
This type of indicator began to be used at the end of the nineteenth century Journalist Charles H. Dao. He looked closely at how stocks of companies tended to rise or fall in price together, so he created two indices: one containing the 20 most important railroad companies (because they were the most important industry at the time), plus 12 stocks from other types of companies.
Nowadays there are many indicators and They can be grouped together based on their geography, sectors, company size or also asset typeFor example, the US Nasdaq index consists of the 100 largest companies that are largely related to technologies such as Apple (AAPL), Microsoft (MSFT), Amazon (AMZN), Facebook (FB), Alphabet (GOOG), Tesla (TSLA), Nvidia (NVDA), PayPal (PYPL), Comcast (CMCSA), and Adobe (ADBE).
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