OMX Stockholm 30 opens the session on positive ground this March 6

Bullish session opening for the OMX-30which begins the session on Monday March 6 with slight increases in the 0.32%until the 2,260.06 dots, after opening. By comparing these data with those of the previous days, the OMX-30 strings two successive days in positive values.

Considering the last seven days, the OMX-30 accumulates an increase of 1.12%so that year-over-year, it still maintains an increase of 14.61%. He OMX-30 is located at 1.5% below its maximum this year (2,294.52 points) and a 8.88% above its minimum price so far this year (2,075.76 points).

a stock market index It is an indicator that measures the evolution of the value of a given set of assets.for which it takes data from different companies or sectors of a part of the market.

These indicators are mainly used by the exchanges of each country and each of them can be integrated by signatures with specific characteristics like having a similar market capitalization or belonging to the same 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 stock market, business confidence, health of national and global economy and stock investment performance and shares of an entity. 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 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. 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

Today in our economy there are various indices and they can be grouped according to their location, their sectors, the size of the company or the type of assetFor 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 component is the market capitalization of each company that incorporates it. This is obtained by multiplying the daily value of the share in the corresponding stock market by the total number of shares outstanding in the market.

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

Reading a stock market index also requires noticing its changes over time. Current indices always start with a fixed value based on security prices on their start date, but not everyone follows this method. Therefore, it may seem misleading.

If one index gets 500 points in one day, while another only gets 20, it may seem that the former performed better. But, 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 for the second were considerable.

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 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 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 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, is considered the preeminent of China, consisting of the most important companies of 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 influential companies on the Mexican Stock Exchange (BMV). At least a third of them belong to 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.

Finally, 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.