ATX index on March 15: loses 0.71% at the opening of operations

Unfavorable day for him ATXwhich opens the session on Wednesday, March 15 with slight declines in the 0.71%until the 3336.21 points, after the start of the opening session. As for the past days, the ATX reverses the value of the previous session, where it marked an increase of 4.08%, without being able to establish a definite trend in recent days.

Compared to the last seven days, the ATX records a decrease of 6.21%so that in the last year it still maintains a decrease in the 0.43%. He ATX is located at 6.21% below its maximum this year (3,557.01 points) and a 5.59% above its minimum valuation for the current year (3,159.71 points).

a stock market index It is an indicator that measures the evolution of the price of a set of assets.for which it collects data from various companies or sectors of a market fragment.

These indicators are mainly used by the exchanges of the countries and each of them can be integrated by companies with different specificities like having a similar market capitalization or belonging to the same type of industry, moreover, there are some indices that only consider a handful of stocks to determine their value or others that consider hundreds of stocks.

Stock indices serve as indicator of confidence in the stock market, business confidence, the health of the national and global economy and the performance of stock investments and shares of a company. Generally, if investors are not confident, stock values ​​will tend to fall.

They are also working to measure the performance of an asset manager and allow investors to make comparisons between return and risk; measure the opportunities of a financial asset or create portfolios.

These types of indicators began to be used at the end of the 19th century after the journalist Charles H. Dow. To see carefully how company stocks tended to rise or fall together in price, he therefore created two indices: one that contained the 20 largest railroad companies (since that was the largest industry at the time), as well as 12 shares of other types of companies

Currently in humanity there are various indices and they can cluster based on their geography, industries, company size, or even asset typeFor example, the American Nasdaq index is made up of the 100 largest companies mainly related to technology such as Apple (AAPL), Microsoft (MSFT), Amazon (AMZN), Facebook (FB), Alphabet (GOOG), Tesla (TSLA ), Nvidia (NVDA), PayPal (PYPL), Comcast (CMCSA), Adobe (ADBE).

Each stock index has its own calculation method, but the main factor is the market capitalization of each company that incorporates it. This is obtained by multiplying the current value of the security on the corresponding stock market by the total number of shares that are in the hands of investors.

Listed companies are required to present a balance sheet of its composition. This report must be published every three or six months, as the case may be.

Reading a stock market index also means analyzing its evolution over time. New indices always start with a fixed value based on stock prices on their start date, but not everyone follows this method. Therefore, this may lead to inaccuracies.

If one index rises 500 points in one day, while another rises only 20, it may appear that the former has outperformed. However, if the first started the day at 30,000 points and the other at 300, we can deduce that in terms of percentage, the gains of the second were more remarkable.

Between the major US stock indices is the Dow Jones Industrial Average, better known as the Dow Jones, made up of 30 companies. Likewise, the S&P500, which includes 500 of the largest companies on the New York Stock Exchange. Finally, we must mention the Nasdaq 100that connects 100 of the largest non-financial companies.

On the other hand, the most important indices of Europe are the Euro Stoxx 50, which covers the 50 largest companies in the euro area. On the other hand, the DAX 30, the main German index containing the most outstanding companies on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange; there FTSE100 the London Stock Exchange; he CAC 40 of the Paris Stock Exchange; and the IBEX 35of the Spanish stock exchange.

In the asian continentwe have the Nikki 225, made up of the 225 largest companies on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. Additionally, there is the SSE composite index, is considered the strongest in China, consisting of the most important companies on the Shanghai Stock Exchange. The same role played by the Hang Seung Index in Hong Kong and the KOSPI in South Korea.

As it concerns Latin Americayou have the IPCwhich contains the 35 Most Powerful Companies on the Mexican Stock Exchange (BMV). At least a third of them are part of the estate of tycoon Carlos Slim.

Another is the Bovespa, composed of the 50 most important companies of the Sao Paulo Stock Exchange; he Merval from Argentina; he IPSA From Chile; he MSCI COLCAP Columbia; he IBC of Caracas, made up of 6 companies from Venezuela.

In addition, there are other types of global stock indices such as the MSCI Latin Americawhich includes the 137 most important companies from Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru.

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