what in the world does it mean the nasdaq - Dow - S&P 500 is Up or down by .20%?

Question

Here is what i found today, as i read on the nasdaq qebpage this is what i found NASDAQ 2393.01 17.13 0.72% | DJIA 12193.43 36.66 0.3% | S&P 1387.07 4.23 0.31%. WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?? are all sotcks read this way? if you know of a website that explains this and you dont want to write you can just copy paste the website and that would be also greatly appreciated... Tks for your time... If you could add more numbers with examples i would greatly appreciate it also.

Answer 1

Dow, Nasdaq, and S&P 500 are indexes or baskets of stocks.

They're used as a proxy for the various markets. So when the S&P, Dow, and NAsdaq are up, they say the market is up.

Here's how you read the #'s part.

http://www.investopedia.com/university/tables/tables1.asp


Here's general info on the indexes.

http://www.investopedia.com/university/indexes/

For Thu, Dow closed at 12,103.30
It was down73.24 or -0.60%

Today's high was 12187.03
Today's low was 12090.26


Hope that helps!

Answer 2

That means that the market has gone up 0.2% from ITS PREVIOUS close. So S&P has gone up .31 percent from yesterdays close.

Yes, all stocks are read that way. Some stocks are predictable of what will happen, such as google, and yet some are very hard.

Answer 3

The first number is the closing total for the average, the second is the increase and the third is the % increase.