4.3 Stock market indexes

The most important Stock Market Indexes are:

  1. S&P500- USA –  500 stocks from the top companies in the U.S.
  2. Dow Jones – USA – The 30 most important industrial shares from the New York Stock Exchange
  3. NASDAQ-USA- IT and Biotech shares
  4. Nikkei- Japan-  225 most important Japanese stocks
  5. FTSE- UK- 100 most important UK stocks
  6. DAX- Germany – 40 most important German stocks
  7. AEX- Netherlands- 25 most important Dutch stocks