S&P 500
S & P 500 - stock index. To calculate index value are used 500 selected U.S. public companies with the highest capitalization. The index is owned by Standard & Poor's and it is composed by it.
Shares of all companies in the S & P 500 are traded on major U.S. stock exchanges, such as the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ. The arithmetic mean weighted value of the stock prices of these companies are also known as The S & P 500. The capitalizations are used as the weights in calculating the index. The S & P 500 is competing in popularity with the Dow Jones industrial average and deservedly called a barometer of the U.S. economy.
Finance and stock tools
Most of finance and stocks widgets used on our site can be downloaded on Roman Gelembjuk's site gelembjuk.com.
Tools are created as modules for CMS Joomla.
Dow Jones Industrial Average
The Dow Jones Industrial Average , also called the Industrial Average, the Dow Jones, the Dow 30, or simply the Dow, is a stock market index, and one of several indices created by Wall Street Journal editor and Dow Jones & Company co-founder Charles Dow. It was founded on May 26, 1896, and is now owned by Dow Jones Indexes, which is majority owned by the CME Group. The average is named after Dow and one of his business associates, statistician Edward Jones. It is an index that shows how 30 large, publicly owned companies based in the United States have traded during a standard trading session in the stock market. It is the second oldest U.S. market index after the Dow Jones Transportation Average, which was also created by Dow.