The Dow Jones BRIC 50 Index contains stocks of 50 super-liquidity, super-big companies in “BRIC”-land (Brazil, Russia, India, and China). It’s a market capitalization-weighted stock, which means size matters (and not just price...stay focused here). It’s also weighted to make sure its balance doesn't get too out of whack. For instance, no single stock can represent more than 10% of the index...because that’d be uncool, and wouldn't make for a very good index.
The Dow Jones BRIC 50 Index is one family member of the Dow Jones Global Indexes, which each region having its own index rep. This index even has child-indexes: The Dow Jones BRIC Brazil 15 Index, the Dow Jones BRIC China 15 Index, the Dow Jones BRIC China 15 Capped Index, the Dow Jones BRIC India 15 Index, the Dow Jones BRIC India 15 Capped Index, and the Dow Jones BRIC Russia 5 Index. Not all stocks from all of those indexes are included in the Dow Jones BRIC 50 Index—only ones in the top 10 of each of those are considered to make the cut.
Yep...it’s a competitive world out there.
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finance a la shmoop. what is the S&P 500? well the S&P 500 is just an index- that
is the standard and poors company assembled 500 stocks put them on a
spreadsheet- this was a spreadsheet in 1957 -and they tracked them. [spreadsheet pictured]
well the index had something like 37 shares of Procter & Gamble, the 23 shares
of Ford, 18 shares of IBM and so on. in the 1950s the S&P 500 totaled something
like 40 maybe 50 bucks on a good day. at the end of each day the elves who worked
inside of the S&P Factory, they would add up the shares basically ignore any
dividends and send to the press a total which was published to more or less
everyone who cared about investing. well not nearly even a century later the 40 [man reads newspaper]
to $50 reign to the SNP is today knock on the door of 2,500 .so without even
having dividends reinvested you'd have made 50 times your money with dividends
reinvested to buy more shares instead of keeping the cash to buy you know
groceries or electric massage slippers. you'd have made over 70 times your [grocery display case and slippers pictured]
original investment. welcome to America.
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