1. The leading exchange in the United States

There will be a lot of people who are going to have a lot of American stocks around the world. There are two major exchanges in the United States. The New York Exchange, which boasts the largest scale, lists high-quality companies under strict listing conditions. Also, the New York Exchange is the first exchange in the United States. In January 1792, 24 brokers who were brokering bonds and stocks gathered and the New York Exchange was created for their own trading and securing commissions. Also, the Nasdaq exchange is an American exchange called Nasdaq.


The US exchange market is open from 09:20 to 16:00 local time. Now that we've examined exchanges that include indices such as the Nasdaq, Dow Jones, and S&P500, let's take a look at each index.

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2. What does the Nasdaq, Dow Jones and S&P500 mean?


1) Nasdaq Index


 Along with the Dow Jones Industrial Average Index and the S&P500 Index, it is one of the three major stock market areas of the New York Stock Market, and venture companies and technology-related companies are trading off-the-shelf, but 1,353 companies such as Google, Apple, Yahoo, and Amazon is listed.In addition, the base date for index calculation was February 5, 1971, and the American Securities Dealers Association, the operator of the NASDAQ market, set a market capitalization of 100P on this day, and all listed common stocks were weighted according to market capitalization. is given to calculate the stock price. In addition, the Nasdaq index is automatically priced by computer.


2) Dow Jones Industrial Average (Dow Index)


 It can be seen as a global stock index calculated by Dow Jones in the United States based on 30 stocks of blue-chip companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange. It can be seen as a representative stock index that shows trends and prices in the US stock market. The Dow index uses the average rate of return method, which is the method of dividing the rate of return of individual companies by the number of all companies. In this way, there are many evaluations that the method of weighting market capitalization is insufficient compared to the S&P500.


3) S&P500 Index


 A stock index created by S&P, an international credit rating agency. It is the most widely used index in the United States. , 500 stocks, including the financial industry (40 stocks), will be calculated based on the stock price. As mentioned above, S&P is one of the international credit rating agencies, and the stock indices issued by S&P will have a great impact not only on the US but also on the securities markets of countries around the world. Initially started with an index of 90, it was expanded to 500 in 1957 and is still in operation today. A more comprehensive assessment than Dow Jones. Therefore, it is used as a standard for evaluating the sales performance of money managers. The calculation compares the total market capitalization by multiplying the stock price at the comparative time by the number of listed shares and the market capitalization at the reference time.


3. Finish


 Today, we have summarized two exchanges in the United States and three large indices in the United States. Since the United States is the world's hegemon and the greatest power, American stocks and indices will have a great influence on the world's financial and securities markets. Also, since the US dollar is the key currency, there are many people around the world who are doing US stocks. We will continue to organize them one by one.

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