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In 1976, the index reached 1,000 several times and it closed the year at 1,004.75. Although the Vietnam War ended in 1975, new tensions arose towards Iran surrounding the Iranian Revolution in 1979. Performance-wise for the 1970s, the index remained virtually flat, rising 4.8% from 800.36 to 838.74.
The first four tables show only the largest one-day changes between a given day's close and the close of the previous trading day, [1] [2] not the largest changes during the trading day (i.e. intraday changes).
Amex indices NYSE Arca Major Market Index; CBOE indices CBOE S&P 500 BuyWrite Index (BXM) CBOE Volatility Index (VIX) Dow Jones & Company indices Dow Jones Industrial Average; Dow Jones Transportation Average; Dow Jones Utility Average; MarketGrader indices Barron's 400 Index; Nasdaq indices Nasdaq Composite; Nasdaq-100; Nasdaq Financial-100
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.
Since 2012, S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC — a joint venture between S&P Global, the CME Group, and News Corp — produces, maintains, licenses, and markets stock market indices. Among these indices are: Dow Jones Industrial Average, one of the most widely utilized indices of the US stock market, measuring the stock performance of 30 large companies
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.
The Nasdaq Stock Market (/ ˈ n æ z d æ k / ⓘ; National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations) is an American stock exchange based in New York City.It is the most active stock trading venue in the U.S. by volume, [3] and ranked second on the list of stock exchanges by market capitalization of shares traded, behind the New York Stock Exchange. [4]
The 1973–1974 stock market crash caused a bear market between January 1973 and December 1974. Affecting all the major stock markets in the world, particularly the United Kingdom, [1] it was one of the worst stock market downturns since the Great Depression, the other being the financial crisis of 2007–2008. [2]