Opening of the main Lisbon index on May 1

Taking into account the last week, the 20PSI score an increase 0.22%so that last year still keeps increasing 9.8%. he 20PSI a 0.51% Less than this year’s maximum (6,244.18 points) and a 8.53% Above the minimum rating for this year so far (5,724.12 points).

stock index It is an indicator that measures the evolution of the value of a particular group of assets.Therefore, it collects data from various companies or sectors in a segment of the market.

These indices are mainly used by the stock markets of each country and Each of them can be merged by companies with specific characteristics Such as having a similar market capitalization or belonging to the same industry, in addition to that, there are some indicators that take into account only a handful of stocks to determine their value or others that take hundreds of stocks.

Stock indices are Index of confidence in the stock exchange, business confidence, the health of the national and global economy, and the performance of stock investments and shares of a company. In general, if investors are not confident, stock prices will tend to fall.

They also work to measure Asset manager performance allow investors to make comparisons of profitability and risk; Measure opportunities for financial assets or create portfolios.

These types of indicators began to be used at the end of the nineteenth century after Journalist Charles H. Dow. To carefully investigate how corporate stocks tend to rise or fall together in price, he created two indices: one containing the 20 largest railroad companies (as it was the most important industry at the time), plus 12 stocks from other companies. Business types

Today there are different indicators and They can group together based on their geographic location, sectors, company size, or also type of assetsFor example, the US Nasdaq index is made up of the top 100 companies largely related to technology such as Apple (AAPL), Microsoft (MSFT), Amazon (AMZN), Facebook (FB), Alphabet (GOOG), Tesla (TSLA), Nvidia ( NVDA), PayPal (PYPL), Comcast (CMCSA), and Adobe (ADBE).

Each stock indicator has its own method of calculation, but the key component is the market capitalization of each company you incorporate. This is obtained by multiplying the daily value of securities in the corresponding stock market by the total number of shares traded in the market.

Publicly listed companies are required to Provide balance from its composition. The said report is published every three or six months, as the case may be.

Reading a stock ticker also means watching for changes over time. New indices always start with a fixed value based on the stock prices on the start date, but not everyone follows this method. Therefore, it can be misleading.

If one index rises 500 points in one day, while another gains only 20 points, it may appear that the former is outperforming. However, if the first started the day at 30,000 points and the other at 300, it can be concluded that, in percentage terms, the gains for the latter were significant.

between the The major stock indexes of the American Federation It is the Dow Jones Industrial Average, commonly known as the Dow Jones, of which 30 companies are part of. Similarly, the Standard & Poor’s 500, which includes 500 of the largest companies on the New York Stock Exchange. Finally, the Nasdaq 100which includes 100 of the largest non-financial companies.

On the other hand, the most important indicators Europe she Eurostox 50Which covers the 50 largest companies in the Eurozone. On the other hand, the Dax 30It is the main German index that contains the most prominent companies on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. the FTSE 100 index from the London Stock Exchange; he ACC 40 from the Paris Stock Exchange; and the IBEX 35from the Spanish stock market.

in Asiathe main stock indices are Nikki 225It is made up of the 225 largest companies on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. There is, too SSE Composite Index, which is listed as the most solid in China, and is made up of the most relevant companies on the Shanghai Stock Exchange. The same role he played Hang Seong Index in Hong Kong and Cosby in South Korea.

we talk about Latin America regionYou have CPIwhich contains a file The 35 most listed companies on the Mexican Stock Exchange (BMV). No less than a third of them belong to the capital of businessman Carlos Slim.

post is Bovespa, consisting of the 50 most important companies on the São Paulo Stock Exchange; he Merval from Argentina; he IPSA from Chile; he MSCI Colcap from Colombia; he IBC de Caracas, consisting of 6 companies from Venezuela.

Finally, 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.

Likewise there MSCI World, which includes 1,600 companies from 23 developed countries; he MSCI Emerging Markets, consisting of more than 800 companies from developing countries; and the S&P Global 100consisting of the 100 most powerful multinational corporations on the entire planet.