However, because the DJIA has been experiencing a long positive run, this fall represented a 4.6 percent drop given that the index started the day at around 25,000. When the DJIA fell almost 1200 points on Monday, February 5, 2018, it was the largest point move in its long history. Scaling point changes as a percent of the index value is important for understanding the real magnitude of a given change. The percentage change in an index is a better gauge of aggregate stock market performance than the changes in the index’s level or its “points”. Viewed in the context of this long and sustained rise, the fluctuations of the past week are modest (see chart). Stock market indices have had a long positive run since the Great Recession.A third closely watched index is the price of stocks on the Nasdaq exchange, with the shares traded on this exchange tilted towards the performance of the technology sector. This index tilts toward large firms and covers about 80 percent of the investible universe of publicly traded stocks in the United States. Another widely followed index is the Standard and Poor’s 500 index (S & P 500), which is a market-capitalization-weighted index based on the stock prices of 500 firms with the largest market capitalizations among publicly traded U.S. Today the index includes Apple at its inception the index included the National Lead Company, which still exists but is not as central to the economy today as it was back then. The set of companies included in this index changes periodically, and the intent of these periodic changes is to ensure that the index remains a reasonable proxy for the larger economy. This index is based on the average value of the shares of thirty different companies whose stocks are traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). The best-known stock market index is probably the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA), which was created in 1896 and has been maintained ever since. These indexes provide useful information about the prices of a range of companies’ shares and the returns that investors have earned by investing in those shares.
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Many different indexes track the performance of United States stock markets and provide somewhat distinct windows to evaluate the performance of stocks and the outlook for different types of companies.They earn a return on these investments as companies’ profits are paid out to them as dividends, or when they sell the shares of stock to another investor or back to the company. Households invest in stocks through direct purchases, through wealth management companies, or through pension funds. At the same time, shares of companies are an important part of the set of financial assets households use to invest their savings. Selling shares to the public is an important way for companies to raise money for new investments in plant and equipment, as well as other projects. A share of stock represents ownership in a publicly traded, for-profit company.
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