What is is the meaning of S&P, DOW, NASDAQ, and what does that numbers mean?????

Question

From the Wall Street, etc.

Answer 1

S&P Standard & Poor's 500 index
NASDAQ National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation System
DOW Dow Jones Industrial index

Answer 2

S&P: Standard & Poors
Dow: Dow Jones Industrial Index
NASDAQ: National ASsociation of Security .....I forget

these are all indexes of commonly-traded stocks that are used as a barometer of how the stock market as a whole is performing

the numbers mean very little in & of themselves; they're best used to compare one day to the next

in theory, if you had 1 stock of each of the companies in the index, you'd have the total, but since certain companies come and go to/from the index, it's weighted based on certain outside factors, so the totals would exactly equal the index

Answer 3

I have found most British people to be quite polite and rather fun. I am an American, the son of a Scotsman, and if there was ever a people to dislike the Brits, it should either be a Scot or an Irishman. Growing up, I spent at least one day per week playing soccer with foreigners, as it was not a well known game back then. The differences in our cultures explain much of how we perceive them as such, but when you get to know the people, you will find they are truly a fun loving bunch and make as much fun of themselves as the do others. It is almost a British comical cultural thing. They make fun of each others' favorite teams, much as we do, but their style of humor comes across a little "off" by our standards. So, just try to realize our cultural differences are what makes us see them as the "high and mighty, self-righteous assholes", (that and the fact that we beat them for our independence and many are still bitter about that.)

Answer 4

NASDAQ and DOW are the actual names S&P idk what that means and the numbers mean what the stock is worth