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A ticker symbol or stock symbol is an abbreviation used to uniquely identify publicly traded shares of a particular stock or security on a particular stock exchange. Ticker symbols are arrangements of symbols or characters (generally Latin letters or digits) which provide a shorthand for investors to refer to, purchase, and research securities.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA), Dow Jones, or simply the Dow (/ ˈ d aʊ /), is a stock market index of 30 prominent companies listed on stock exchanges in the United States. The DJIA is one of the oldest and most commonly followed equity indexes.
Stock market indices may be categorized by their index weight methodology, or the rules on how stocks are allocated in the index, independent of its stock coverage. For example, the S&P 500 and the S&P 500 Equal Weight each cover the same group of stocks, but the S&P 500 is weighted by market capitalization, while the S&P 500 Equal Weight places equal weight on each constituent.
Though this index includes just 500 of the more than 6,000 publicly traded U.S. stocks, the S&P 500 tells a more complete story of what the market is doing than the Dow or Nasdaq 100.
Index funds that attempt to track the Nasdaq Composite include Fidelity Investments' FNCMX mutual fund [4] and ONEQ [5] [6] exchange-traded fund. Invesco offers the Nasdaq: QQQ exchange-traded fund, which matches the performance of the Nasdaq-100, a different index which tracks 100 of the largest non-financial companies in the Nasdaq Composite and is 90% correlated with the Nasdaq Composite.
Unlike the market cap-weighted S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite, where larger companies exert more influence on these respective indexes, the Dow is a share price-weighted index. Market cap is ...
MSCI World (Developed, large-cap stocks only) MSCI ACWI Index (Developed and EM, all cap stocks) S&P Global 100; S&P Global 1200; The Global Dow – Global version of the Dow Jones Industrial Average; Dow Jones Global Titans 50; FTSE All-World index series; OTCM QX ADR 30 Index
West Texas Intermediate crude oil was higher slightly by 0.18% to $68.30 a barrel. Brent crude, the international benchmark, was up 0.43% to $71.85 a barrel. Gold was down 0.59% to $2,652.30 an ounce.