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S&P 500 Futures (ticker: SP) contract's minimum tick is 0.25 index points = $62.50. While the performance bond requirements vary from broker to broker, the CME requires $11,500 to maintain the position. [2] E-Mini S&P 500 Futures (ticker: ES) contract's minimum tick is 0.25 index points = $12.50 [1]
NASDAQ-100 futures (ticker: ND) contract's tick is .25 index point = $25.00 [4] While the performance bond requirements vary from broker to broker, the CME requires equity ranging from $14,000-$17,500 to maintain the position.
The S&P 500 posted seven new 52-week highs and four new lows, while the Nasdaq Composite recorded 37 new highs and 27 new lows. (This story has been refiled to correct the syntax in paragraph 4)
(Reuters) -Futures linked to Wall Street's main indexes took a pause on Thursday after the S&P 500 and Nasdaq ended the previous session on a positive note, while investors awaited some more ...
The index, as well as the Dow and Nasdaq, had pulled back from record levels by the end of Tuesday's regular trading day, and the S&P 500 remains less than 0.5% from its all-time high.
The contract was introduced by the CME on September 9, 1997, after the value of the existing S&P contract (then valued at 500 times the index, or over $500,000 at the time) became too large for many small traders. The E-mini quickly became the most popular equity index futures contract in the world.
The Standard and Poor's 500, or simply the S&P 500, [5] is a stock market index tracking the stock performance of 500 of the largest companies listed on stock exchanges in the United States. It is one of the most commonly followed equity indices and includes approximately 80% of the total market capitalization of U.S. public companies, with an ...
S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC is a joint venture between S&P Global, the CME Group, and News Corp that was announced in 2011 and later launched in 2012. It produces, maintains, licenses, and markets stock market indices as benchmarks and as the basis of investable products, such as exchange-traded funds (ETFs), mutual funds, and structured products.