BSE Sensex 30: Indian stock market opened higher on March 1

Good connection for BSE Sensex 30which begins Wednesday, March 1 with slight increases in 0.5%until the 59,254.39 dots, after opening. If we compare the data with past days, the BSE Sensex 30 With this data, he interrupts the flat streak he had marked the previous eight days.

Compared to the profitability of the last seven days, the BSE Sensex 30 accumulated a drop of 0.82%; even if for a year it still maintains an increase of 8.66%. He BSE Sensex 30 is located at 3.37% below its maximum this year (61,319.51 points) and a 0.5% above its minimum score for the current year (58,962.12 points).

a stock market index is an indicator that shows how the value of a set of assets is changingfor which you need to have data from several companies or sectors of a market fragment.

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

Stock market indices serve as indicator of confidence in stock market, business confidence, health of national and global economy and stock investment performance and shares of a company. If investors are not confident, stock prices tend to fall.

They are also working to measure the performance of an asset manager and they allow investors to make a comparison between profitability 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. carefully observed how the stock prices of companies tended to rise or fall together, so he created two indices: one containing the 20 largest railway companies (since this was the largest industry in the world). era), as well as 12 shares of other types of companies

Today in humanity there are various indices and they can group together based on geography, industries, company size or even asset classFor 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 way of being measured, but the main component is the market capitalization of each company that incorporates it. This is obtained by multiplying the daily value of the security on the corresponding stock market by the total number of shares outstanding on the market.

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

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

If one index sees an increase of 500 points in one day, while another only adds 20, it may seem that the former has performed better. However, if the first started the day at 30,000 points and the other at 300, we can conclude that in percentage terms the gains of the second were higher.

Between the main stock indices of the American Union is the Dow Jones Industrial Average, better known as the Dow Jonesof which 30 companies are part., the S&P500, which includes 500 of the largest companies on the New York Stock Exchange. Finally, we must not forget the Nasdaq 100which includes 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. Him too DAX 30, the main German index containing the most important companies of 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 continentthe main stock market indices are the Nikki 225, made up of the 225 largest companies on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. Also SSE composite index, which can be considered the strongest in China, consisting of the most relevant companies on the Shanghai Stock Exchange. Also, it is worth mentioning the Hang Seung Index in Hong Kong and the KOSPI in South Korea.

As it concerns the Latin American regionyou have the IPCwhich contains the 35 most consolidated companies on the Mexican Stock Exchange (BMV). At least a third of them belong to the capital 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.

Similarly, 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.