Dow Jones index is the oldest stock index in the world, and its full name is average stock price index. Generally speaking, the Dow Jones index may refer to the first of the four groups of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
The Dow Jones index was first compiled by charles dow, the founder of Dow Jones Company, in 1884. Its original Dow Jones stock price average index is based on 1 1 representative railway companies, calculated and compiled by arithmetic average method, and published in the Daily Communication edited and published by charles dow himself. Its calculation formula is:
Average share price = sum of selected stock prices/number of selected stocks.
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Standard & Poor's 500 Index; Standard & Poor's 500 Index
Standard & Poor's 500 Index, also translated as Standard & Poor's 500 Index, was compiled by Standard & Poor's Company at 1957. The initial constituent stocks include 425 industrial stocks, 15 railway stocks and 60 public utility stocks. From July 1 9761,its constituent stocks were changed to 400 industrial stocks, 20 transportation stocks, 40 public utilities stocks and 40 financial stocks. It takes 194 1 year to 1942 as the base period, and the index of the base period is set to 10, which is calculated by the weighted average method, with the listed amount of the stock as the weight, and the weighted calculation is carried out according to the base period. Compared with the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the Standard & Poor's 500 Index has the characteristics of wide sampling area, strong representativeness, high accuracy and good continuity, and is generally regarded as the ideal target of stock index futures contracts.
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Nasdaq is the abbreviation of the National Association of Securities Dealers' Automatic Quotation, but it has become synonymous with the Nasdaq stock market. The rise of information and service industry gave birth to Nasdaq. Nasdaq, founded in 197 1, is a global stock market that completely adopts electronic trading, provides a competitive stage for emerging industries and is self-regulated. Nasdaq is the largest electronic stock trading market in the United States and even the world.
The Dow Jones index was first compiled by charles dow, the founder of Dow Jones Company, in 1884. Its original Dow Jones stock price average index is based on 1 1 representative railway companies, calculated and compiled by arithmetic average method, and published in the Daily Communication edited and published by charles dow himself. Its calculation formula is:
Average share price = sum of selected stock prices/number of selected stocks.
The index aims to reflect the overall trend of the US stock market, covering finance, technology, entertainment, retail and other industries. At present, the Dow Jones Industrial Average is maintained by the editorial department of the Wall Street Journal. The selection criteria of its constituent stocks include sustainable development, large scale, outstanding reputation, industry representation and being sought after by most investors. At present, 30 constituent stocks in the Dow Jones Industrial Average are representatives of blue-chip stocks in the United States. The subtle change of this mysterious index has brought panic or ecstasy to hundreds of millions of people. It is no longer an ordinary financial indicator, but a code name of the world financial culture.
The Dow Jones index, the Dow Jones average stock price index, is the most influential and widely used stock price index in the world. It is based on some representative company stocks listed on the new york Stock Exchange, and consists of four stock price average indexes, namely:
(1) Dow Jones Industrial Average, which is compiled for the stocks of 30 famous industrial companies;
(2) Dow Jones Transportation Stock Average Index, which is based on the stocks of 20 famous transportation companies;
(3) The Dow Jones public utility share price average index is based on 15 famous public utility companies;
(4) Dow Jones stock average price index, which is based on the stocks of 65 companies involved in the above three stock average price indexes.
Among the four Dow Jones stock price indexes, the Dow Jones Industrial Average is the most famous, widely reported by the mass media, and cited as the representative of the Dow Jones index. The Dow Jones index was compiled and published by Dow Jones Company, an American newspaper group, and published in its subordinate Wall Street Journal. The Dow Jones index was first published on July 3rd, 1884. At that time, the index sample included 1 1 stock, which was compiled by Charles Henry Dow, one of the founders of Dow Jones Company and the first editor of The Wall Street Journal. From 1928, 10, 1, the number of sample shares has increased to 30, and has remained so far, but the company as a sample share has undergone many adjustments. Dow Jones index is an arithmetic average stock price index.
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But now it is usually the first group-Dow Jones Industrial Average.