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Published since 1 January 1986, the S&P BSE SENSEX is regarded as the pulse of the domestic stock markets in India. [2] [3] The base value of the SENSEX was taken as 100 on 1 April 1979 and its base year as 1978–79. On 25 July 2001, BSE launched DOLLEX-, a dollar-linked version of the SENSEX. [4]
The simple Dietz method [1] is a means of measuring historical investment portfolio performance, compensating for external flows into/out of the portfolio during the period. [2] The formula for the simple Dietz return is as follows: = + / where is the portfolio rate of return,
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.
[1] 1 August 2007: The Sensex continued to fall and finally settled at 14,936 while the nifty fell by 183 points to 4,346. As per Rediff, "The Sensex opened with a negative gap of 207 points at 15,344 amid weak trends in the global market and slipped deeper into the red. Unabated selling across-the-board saw the index tumble to a low of 14,911.
The BSE SENSEX is one of two main stock market indices used in the Indian equity markets. This category lists the stocks that are currently part of the index.
The base year of SENSEX is 1978–79 with a base value of 100. During the introduction of the SENSEX in 1986, some of the companies included in the base calculation in 1979 were removed and new companies were added. The index is revised semi-annually in June and December. [1]
The efficient market hypothesis posits that stock prices are a function of information and rational expectations, and that newly revealed information about a company's prospects is almost immediately reflected in the current stock price. This would imply that all publicly known information about a company, which obviously includes its price ...
Barron's 400 Index [1] Nasdaq indices NASDAQ Composite; NASDAQ-100; NASDAQ Financial-100; Russell Indexes (published by Russell Investment Group) Russell 3000; Russell 1000; Russell Top 200; Russell MidCap; Russell 2500; Russell Small Cap Completeness; Standard & Poor's indices S&P 500 (GSPC, INX, SPX) S&P 100; S&P MidCap 400; S&P MidCap 400 ...