Taiwan’s weighted average stock lost 0.5% at the opening today, July 10.

Negative session for Taiwan weightedwhich begins on Wednesday, July 10 with the fall of 0.5%even the 23781.07 pointsafter the opening. For the past few days, Taiwan weighted It breaks the positive streak of market prices in the last five days.

And in the last seven days Taiwan weighted Accumulates an increase of 2.63%%So there is still an increase in this number since the year 40.37%. he Taiwan weighted A is located 0.5% Below the maximum for this year (23900.08 points) and a 38.57% Above its minimum rating so far this year (17161.79 points).

stock index It is an indicator that shows how the value of a particular group of assets is developing.So you need to get data from multiple companies or sectors in a part of the market.

These indicators are mainly used by stock exchanges in various countries around the world and Each of them can be combined by companies with specific characteristics. Like having similar market value or belonging to the same type of business, there are also some indicators that take into account only a handful of stocks to determine their value or other indicators that take into account hundreds of stocks.

Stock market indicators act as Stock market confidence index, business confidence, national and global economic health, and stock investment performance And the company’s shares. In general, if investors do not have confidence, stock prices tend to fall.

Likewise, it measures Asset Manager Performance Allowing investors to make comparisons between profitability and risk; measure the opportunities of financial assets or create portfolios.

This type of indicator came into use at the end of the nineteenth century after that. Journalist Charles H. Dow. He carefully investigated how company stocks tended to rise or fall in price together, so he created two indices: one containing the 20 most important railroad companies (because that was the most important industry at the time), plus 12 stocks of other types of companies.

Currently in humanity there are different indicators and They can be grouped based on their location, sectors, company size, or even asset type.For example, the US Nasdaq index consists of the 100 largest companies mostly related to technology such as Apple (AAPL), Microsoft (MSFT), Amazon (AMZN), Facebook (FB), Alphabet (GOOG), Tesla (TSLA), Nvidia (NVDA), PayPal (PYPL), Comcast (CMCSA), Adobe (ADBE).

Each stock index has its own calculation method.But the main factor is the market value of each company it comprises. This is obtained by multiplying the daily value of securities on the corresponding stock market by the total shares held by investors.

Companies that appear on the stock exchange must: Providing balance From its composition. This report must be notified every three or six months, as appropriate.

Reading a stock index also requires observing its evolution over time. Current indices always start with a fixed value based on stock prices. On the start date, but not everyone follows this method. Therefore, it can be misleading.

If one index increases by 500 points in a single day, while another only adds 20 points, it may appear that the first index performed better. However, if one starts the day at 30,000 points and the other at 300, it can be concluded that the second index gained more in percentage terms.

between the Major US Stock Indices There is the Dow Jones Industrial Average, known as Dow JonesWhich consists of 30 companies. Similarly, Standard & Poor’s 500Which includes 500 of the largest companies on the New York Stock Exchange. Finally comes Nasdaq 100which unites 100 of the largest non-financial companies.

On the other hand, the most prominent indicators Europe she Eurostoxx 50which covers the 50 most important companies in the Eurozone. Furthermore, dax 30It is the main German index that contains the most prominent companies on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange; the FTSE 100 Index From the London Stock Exchange; he Kak 40 From the Paris Stock Exchange; and the Ibex 35from the Spanish stock market.

in AsiaWe have the Nikki 225consisting of the 225 largest companies on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. Also, SSE Composite Indexwhich can be considered the dominant company in China, which consists of the most relevant companies on the Shanghai Stock Exchange. Similarly, it is worth mentioning Hang Seong Index In Hong Kong and Cosby In South Korea.

We’re talking about latin americaYou have Consumer Price Indexwhich contains 35 of the most prominent companies on the Mexican Stock Exchange (BMV)At least a third of them are owned by businessman Carlos Slim.

The last is Bovespacomposed of the 50 most important companies on the São Paulo Stock Exchange; is Merval From Argentina; he is IPSA From Chile; he is MSCI Colcap From Colombia; he is cry Caracas, consisting of 6 companies from Venezuela.

Finally, there are other types of global stock indices such as: MSCI Latin AmericaWhich includes the 137 most important companies in Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru.

Likewise, there is MSCI WorldWhich includes 1,600 companies from 23 developed countries; it is MSCI Emerging MarketsIt consists of more than 800 companies from developing countries; and S&P Global 100made up of the 100 most powerful multinational companies on the entire planet.