While stock market indexes may most often come to mind, indexes are also constructed around other asset classes. In the bond market, for example, the Bloomberg Aggregate Bond Index tracks the ...

Some indexes focus on a smaller subset of the market. For example, the Nasdaq stock index closely tracks the technology sector. So if you want to know how technology companies are performing ...

So Apple's 20% move has more than three times the impact of Intel's on our three-stock index. Of course, this is a simplified example. It's not likely that just one of these stocks would move ...

Some stock market indexes are designed to provide a measure of the broader market's performance, like tracking a sample of large companies across sectors. And some stock market indexes have a ...

BET – closed the trading session on Wednesday, May 28, at its highest level since September 5, 2024 (17,932 points). During ...

the total value of all the shares of a given stock determines its proportional effect on the overall value of the index. For example, if a company had 50 million shares listed on the Nasdaq and ...

The first index fund, Vanguard S&P 500 ETF, debuted in 1976. Since then, funds that index the US stock market have exploded in popularity. And index funds that focus on international stocks and ...

Stock market uncertainty from President Donald Trump’s tariffs has even casual investors anxiously watching the VIX, commonly called Wall Street’s panic index or fear gauge. The Chicago Board ...