- Jan
- 29
- 2009
- 12:03 PM
Reporting on NYSE Euronext's Global Indices
- By: Ray Pellecchia
- File Under: Indices
Your humble blogger was vaguely aware that NYSE Euronext was cobbling together a pretty big roster of indices, oh. probably, say, 20 or 30 of them, and then this press release came out last week announcing the 2008 performance of some of our 300 indices. Three double-oh, three hundred indices.
Please forgive my appalling lack of knowledge on this subject. Which is not a surprise given my appalling lack of knowledge on most subjects, but please forgive me anyway.
So now we have a Global Index Group, comprising index specialists from NYSE Arca, NYSE Euronext and the newly acquired American Stock Exchange. They provide design, real-time calculation and dissemination services for NYSE Euronext, third-party customized indices and Exchange Traded Products intra-day indicative values, the press release says. And we have these 300 indices.
To which you might respond: so what? Or more specifically, what do all these indices tell us?
The answer is: pretty much anything you want to know about the markets in which NYSE Euronext operates, including the main indices of continental Europe: AEX, BEL, CAC 40 and PSI-20. We have indices of stocks of various sizes and industries, denominated in dollars or euros; plus indices focusing on various strategies including leverage and short selling.
And obviously there's more to tell, because the list is growing. Recently we announced a new global airline index and an index of European companies with low carbon footprints.
You can learn more at the home page for our Global Index Group. And certainly, I myself can learn more. Should learn more. Will learn more -- new year's resolution. OK, enough beating up on myself for one day.
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