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A stock market index is a method of measuring a section of the stock market. Many indices are cited by news or financial services firms and are used as benchmarks, to measure the performance of portfolios such as mutual funds. From Wikipedia under the
GNU Free Documentation License  marketoracle.co.uk 384px x 576px | 47.50kB [source page] current 15X then the S P 500 could fall by 33 from 871 to 583 Let s get some context as to what a level of 583 means Let s have a look at the chart below which dates back to 1920 Ooh Aaah as Al Pacino might have put it If earnings remain constant and if P E ratios fall to 10X then the S P Index may come to rest on the 76 year trend line But what if earnings  marketoracle.co.uk 457px x 702px | 30.70kB [source page] advance of what I consider will become a multi year bull market which appears contrary to many analysts Dow Jones Stealth Bull Market Born 15th March 2009 Dow 7224 FTSE 3 770 As stated in last weekends analysis and newsletter following the Dow s Friday close at 6626 that the Dow Jones Index had now fulfilled its bear market target of 6 600 as per the  marketoracle.co.uk 381px x 790px | 52.40kB [source page] anticipated spike that took the Dow up 12 by the end of the week to close at 7 224 FTSE 100 Index Stealth Bull Market as Bear Market Bottoms at 3 460 17th March 2009 FTSE 3860 Initial Bull Market Target 30 Advanced revised during April Dow analysis to 50 for 2009 or FTSE 4995 More Recent Dow Analysis mapped out the trend for the Dow Jones Index as follows From Yahoo Image Search: "stock market index"  cmemarkets.com admin Fri, 30 Jul 2010 20:39:05 GM Cmemarkets.com Business News, Financial News, . Stock Market. Analysis, Technology & · Home · Capital Markets · Economic Report · Commodities Service. DJ Estimated US Pork Packer Margin IndexJul 30. July 30th, 2010 admin. DJ Estimated US Pork Packer Margin . Index. -Jul 30 Fri Jul 30 16:38:45 2010 EDT This report reflects U.S. pork packer processing margins. The margin indices are calculated using current cash hog or carcass values and wholesale pork cutout values and may not ... From Google Blog Search: "stock market index"  online.wsj.com Sat, 31 Jul 2010 01:04:40 GMT+00:00 Wall Street Journal Still, the Standard & Poor's 500 stock index eked out a tiny advance, led by consumer companies including Home Depot and Expedia. The Dow Jones Industrial ...  bloomberg.com Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:04:29 GMT+00:00 Bloomberg Nasdaq OMX Group Inc., the owner of the second-largest US stock exchange, ...  money.cnn.com Fri, 23 Jul 2010 15:02:59 GMT+00:00 CNNMoney But if you really want to know what's going on in the stock market , you're better off following a broad index like the Standard & Poor's 500, which tracks ... The Learn About Futures Insider for July 22 : Dow Jones Industrial Average Inside Futures The Whipsaw Could Just Be Getting Started (NYSE:DIA) (NYSE:AA) (NASDAQ:INTC ... Inthemoneystocks.com (blog) Bear Markets Are Your Friend: Embrace Them Daily Markets Stock Option Focus From Google News Search: "stock market index" How a NRI can buy Index fund of Indian Stock Market from outside India? Q. I am living in Dubai and want to buy Index fund of Indian stock market from here. Can anybody please guide me for this? Asked by Amu - Sun Dec 9 11:26:50 2007 - - 1 Answers - 0 Comments A. A broker that deals internationally would be best. THe best I can think of is Chase. Also J P Morgan could help with that too. Answered by Whats Up Doc - Thu Dec 13 11:17:47 2007 What is the weighting of the world stock market by country/region? Q. If I own a total US stock market index fund like VTSMX and an international index fund like VGTSX wanted my portfolio to mimic the performance of the world stock market, what weighting would I use? What is an inexpensive way to hedge the currency risk of owning an international fund? Thank you, that is exactly what I wanted to know. I would also be very interested in finding out what is the real ROR on such a portfolio but I am not sure what to do since these international index funds are relatively new. Asked by arjking - Mon Jun 18 06:48:42 2007 - - 1 Answers - 0 Comments A. By market capitalization one figure that I read has the U S markets at about 36%. How accurate that is I am not certain. I believe that figure is based on the Russell Global index. Here is the source. I do have a problem with investing based on market capitalization. I do not know if you recall but at one time the market cap of the Japanese stock market was greater than that of the U S stock market. Following that event the Japanese stock market proceeded on a ten year decline. So in my opinion investing based on market cap is not really a sound financial strategy. I believe a more viable strategy is to invest based on a more diversified approach. In fact I do not like investing based on market cap and investing in index… [cont.] Answered by muncie birder - Mon Jun 18 09:07:00 2007 Random Stock Prices. A believer in the random walk theory of stock market thinks that an index of stock?
Q. prices has teh probability 0.65 of increasing in any year. Moreover, the change in the index in any given year is not influenced by whether it rose or fell in earlier years. Let X be teh number of years among the next 5 years in which the index rises. (a) What are the possible values X can take? (b) Find te probability of each value of X. (c) What are the mean and standard deviation of this distribution? Please help me; I am very confused by binomial Distributions! Asked by ohmygosh - Wed Jul 25 14:36:52 2007 - - 1 Answers - 0 Comments A. a) what you are describing is a memoryless distribution. That is, the prior year's result has no influence on the current year's result. In that case, X can increase either 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 times over the next 5 years. b) This is a binomial distribution. So Pr[X=k] = 5Ck p^k (1-p)^(5-k) where nCm = n!/[m!(n-m)!] Pr[k=0] = 5C0 (0.65)^0 (.35)^5 = 0.005252 Pr[k=1] = 5C1 (0.65)^1 (.35)^4 = 0.048770 Pr[k=2] = 5C2 (0.65)^2 (.35)^3 = 0.181147 Pr[k=3] = 5C3 (0.65)^3 (.35)^2 = 0.336416 Pr[k=4] = 5C4 (0.65)^4 (.35)^1 = 0.312386 Pr[k=5] = 5C5 (0.65)^5 (.35)^0 = 0.116029 c) Here I'm not certain which distribution you are referring to. Assuming it is the number of years that X can increase over the next 5 years, the mean and variance are… [cont.] Answered by unmasked - Wed Jul 25 14:56:01 2007 From Yahoo Answer Search: "stock market index" |
