it is the s&p 500
Dow is the Dow Jones Industrial Average. It's a stock market index.S and P 500 is Standard and Poor 500. It's afree-float capitalization-weighted index published since 1957 of the prices of 500 large-cap common stocks actively traded in the United States.
The E-mini S&P 500 index futures contract (ES) was introduced by the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME).
They might trust the S&P because it watches more stocks. While Dow only reports on 30 stocks the S&P will track 500 stocks.
in the Dow Jones its 30 and in the S&P 500 there is 500. The NASDAQ has a ton and so does the NYSE... They are just weighted averages.
George P. Dow was born on 1840-08-07.
George P. Dow died on 1910-09-28.
A great way to find the most recent Dow trading Updates is straight online, using the cnn/data website, which updates regularly. It tells you all the records for the Dow and S&p 500 too.
3 major stock INDEXES, not averages, Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA), NASDAQ, and S&P 500.
It means the return on your investment is better than the market index you've chosen to compare to (S&P 500, Dow, etc.)
The Dow Jones Transportation Average, which was also created by Dow. Along with the NASDAQ Composite, the S&P 500 Index, and the Russell 2000 Index, the Dow is among the most closely watched benchmark indexes tracking targeted stock market activity. So yes, there are similar indexes which attempt to capture the movement and activity of the American stock markets.
E-mini is a stock market index futures contract traded on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. The notional value of one contract is US$50 times the value of the S&P 500 stock index.