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In finance, a stock market index future is a cash-settled futures contract on the value of a particular stock market index. The turnover for the global market in exchange-traded equity index futures is notionally valued, for 2008, by the Bank for International Settlements at US$130 trillion.
The SGX Nifty had long been a key indicator for India's domestic stock market indices. [8] The transition to GIFT Nifty was part of a broader strategy to centralize international financial services in GIFT City, a hub for India's financial sector and a key initiative under the Smart Cities Mission started by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The NIFTY 50 is an Indian stock market index that represents the float-weighted average of 50 of the largest Indian companies listed on the National Stock Exchange. [1] [2] Nifty 50 is owned and managed by NSE Indices, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of the National Stock Exchange of India.
A bull market refers to a sustained period of either realized or expected price rises, [4] whereas a bear market is used to describe when an index or stock has fallen 20% or more from a recent high for a sustained length of time. [5] Market sentiment is monitored with a variety of technical and statistical methods such as the number of ...
NIFTY 500 is India’s first broad-based stock market index of the Indian stock market. [1] It contains top 500 listed companies on the NSE. The NIFTY 500 index represents about 96.1% of free float market capitalization and about 96.5% of the total turnover on the National Stock Exchange ().
Sculpture of stock market bear outside International Financial Services Centre, Dublin. A bear market is a general decline in the stock market over a period of time. [12] It involves a transition from high investor optimism to widespread investor fear and pessimism. One generally accepted measure of a bear market is a price decline of 20% or ...
Nifty 50 is an important stock market index comprising the 50 largest publicly traded companies on the NSE in India. [44] On 3 May 2012, the National Stock exchange launched derivative contracts (futures and options) on FTSE 100, the widely tracked index of the UK equity stock market.
Stock market index futures are also used as indicators to determine market sentiment. [3] The first futures contracts were negotiated for agricultural commodities, and later futures contracts were negotiated for natural resources such as oil. Financial futures were introduced in 1972, and in recent decades, currency futures, interest rate ...