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CECEEUR – Central European Clearinghouses & Exchanges Index, Composit Index in Euro. Composed of Polish Traded Index (PTX), Czech Traded Index (CTX) and Hungarian Traded Index (HTX) by the Vienna Stock Exchange. UBS 100 Index - the 100 Swiss companies with the largest market capitalizations that are listed on the SIX Swiss stock exchange.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average, an American stock index composed of 30 large companies, has changed its components 59 times since its inception, on May 26, 1896. [1] As this is a historical listing, the names here are the full legal name of the corporation on that date, with abbreviations and punctuation according to the corporation's own usage.
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.
Fundamentally based index funds have higher expense ratios than the traditional capitalization weighted index funds. For example, the Powershares fundamentally based ETFs have an expense ratio of 0.6% (the U.S. index ETF has an expense ratio of 0.39%) while the PIMCO Fundamental IndexPLUS TR Fund charges 1.14% in annual expenses. [ 25 ]
The Standard and Poor's 100, or simply the S&P 100, is a stock market index of United States stocks maintained by Standard & Poor's.. The S&P 100 is a subset of the S&P 500 and the S&P 1500, and holds stocks that tend to be the largest and most established companies in the S&P 500. [1]
A capitalization-weighted (or cap-weighted) index, also called a market-value-weighted index is a stock market index whose components are weighted according to the total market value of their outstanding shares. Every day an individual stock's price changes and thereby changes a stock index's value.
This is a list of companies having stocks that are included in the S&P MidCap 400 stock market index. The index, maintained by S&P Dow Jones Indices, comprises the common stocks of 400 mid-cap, mostly American, companies. Although called the S&P 400, the index contains 401 stocks because it includes two share classes of stock from 1 of its ...
Sigma-Aldrich (SIAL) was removed from the list due to its acquisition by Merck Group. In 2014, Bemis (BMS) was removed from the S&P 500 index and therefore removed from the index. In 2013, Pitney Bowes (PBI) was removed after slashing the dividend from 37.5c to 18.75c per quarter per share. In 2012, CenturyLink (CTL) was