Index

As the Nasdaq 100 index is nearly 2% away from its all-time high, analysis suggests that it’s “easier to digest” the index’s premium valuation given the growth optimism for 2025 and 2026. What Happened: According to Adam Turnquist, the chief technical strategist at LPL...

On Tuesday, billionaire investor and Social Capital CEO Chamath Palihapitiya shared his insights on the upcoming index rebalancing of the Nasdaq 100, highlighting the potential implications for the market. What Happened: In his tweet, Palihapitiya pointed out that since January, a select group of...

A total of $2.7 trillion in derivatives contracts are due to expire on Friday's "triple witching," an event that might result in turbulent market fluctuations after the past week's banking turmoil. The triple witching is a quarterly event in which contracts for index futures,...

Exactly two years ago this week, S&P Dow Jones Indices made the controversial decision to add electric vehicle maker Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) to the S&P 500 index with the stock trading at an all-time high and the automaker sporting a $550 billion market capitalization. Two years later,...

The Nasdaq Composite Index was bouncing up almost 1% higher on Thursday, in relief, after suffering its worst first week of December since 1975, plunging 4.4% between the Nov. 30 closing price and the session finish on Wednesday. With the stock market entering a bear cycle this year, most retail...

Indian business tycoon and billionaire Gautam Adani surpassed Jeff Bezos to become the world's second-richest person.  As Adani climbs the ranks of the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Elon Musk remains the number one wealthiest person in the world, with $260 billion to...

U.S. indices finished Tuesday's trading session lower amid a continued sell-off in stocks. Weak earnings from Abercrombie & Fitch Co. (NYSE: ANF) have pressured retail stocks while weakness in Snap Inc (NYSE: SNAP) pressured social media companies. The Nasdaq composite finished lower...

Let’s talk about the S&P 500. Introduced in 1923, the Standard & Poor’s Composite Index, formerly known as the Composite Index, tracks the performance of 500 large companies listed on stock exchanges in the U.S. In 1926, it started with 90 stocks and grew to 500 by 1957. The S...

On CNBC, Ken Peng of Citi Private Bank said that the U.S. Federal Reserve has promised to tackle inflation in a very aggressive manner. The tapering by the Fed is all set to end next month, with rate-hike expected to begin in March. Peng noted that the Asian markets are in a "little bit better...

Presearch (CRYPTO: PRE) — a privacy-conscious and cryptocurrency-powered alternative to Alphabet Inc.'s (NASDAQ: GOOG)(NASDAQ: GOOGL) Google search engine — just made navigating the metaverse easier for everyone. What Happened: Presearch signed a partnership...

The CBOE Volatility Index (VIX), an index measuring expected volatility in the market, has climbed to its highest level since early March, when a tech meltdown triggered an across-the-board selling in stocks. VIX Spikes: After topping out at 31.90 on March 4, the VIX began moving down and hit a...

The S&P 500 index holds 500 stocks while the Russell 2000 index holds 2,000 stocks. Clearly, this means that in the entire stock market universe there are more stocks than indices, right? According to a Bloomberg report, there are in fact more indices than individual stocks. The math is simple...

S&P Dow Jones Indices, the parent company of many financial market indicators such as the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500, announced Friday a notable change to its methodology. The indices owner announced the following changes: Companies included in the S&P 500 index...

Index Funds launched the S&P 500 Equal Weight (Ticker: INDEX) index mutual fund earlier this month, one of the only instruments of its kind on the market today. Benzinga sat down with Index Funds' Michael Willis to discuss the strategy of the fund, the difference between equal-weight and cap-...

The S&P 500 SPDR ETF (NYSE: SPY), though not yet even close to falling out of its recent bullish trading range, may have just done something far more alarming. The support line that extends back to July (and arguably to March’s bottom) failed to act as a floor today. The ETF is under it for the...