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Showing posts with label Share market. Show all posts
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Monday, June 3, 2024
Sensex and Nifty.
You have heard of
You might have heard of others like S&P 500 and Nasdaq.
What are these? Why are they important?
An index or indices (plural) is calculated using a group of stocks.
Example:
-Sensex is based on the 30 biggest companies in India.
-S&P 500 is based on the 500 biggest companies in the USA.
These are the most popular indices. There are many more like these.
Purpose of index: they help us understand how a certain group of stocks is doing.
Example:
-Bank Nifty index shows us how the banking sector is doing.
-Sensex shows how the overall market is doing (since it is made up of the 30 biggest companies in India).
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