Stock markets??????????????

Question

NASDAQ, Standard & Poors, DOWJONES - Are these stock markets where shares, bonds, CFD's etc are traded.

Are they something like the ASX [Australia], NYSE [new york]?

What other stock markets exist throughout the world and where are they located?

Answer 1

i'm pretty sure they are the same/similar.

i know DOWJONES is a large american stock exchange, there is also Nikkei (Japanese stock exchange)

try http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stock_excha... and it should give you some of the major stock exchanges

Answer 2

NASDAQ is a trading market like the NYSE, the American Stock Exchange, and the markets in other countries.  Those, you can research yourself.

Standard and Poor and Dow Jones are companies that track activity in the markets and report it.  These two companies have created various indexes for tracking market activity.  Dow Jones has a number of them, as does S&P, but the ones you hear about in the news are the Dow Jones Industrial  Average, made up of thirty selected corporate giants, and the S&P 500, a much broader indicator of the market, tracking 500 large companies.  The NASDAQ has its own index, and there are others, like the Wilshire 5000, tracking far more, and many smaller comapnies.