Investing and Finance: Market Indices

Wired News: Stock Indexes The Wired News Stocks section includes the latest information on nine stock indexes, including Dow Jones Industrial, S&P 500, Nasdaq, PSE High Tech, H&Q Internet, Amex Millennium Bug, Russell 2000, Fidelity Select Technology Fund, and Long Bond Yield. Current trading level, point change, and percent change are continually tracked. American Stock Exchange The second-largest auction-marketplace. The site contains a market summary, but for individual 15-minute delayed quotes, use Money magazine's Quick Quotes. Chicago Board Options Exchange The CBOE has the largest share of options trading in the United States. Take a look at the latest market statistics, or get individual quotes. Chicago Mercantile Exchange The CME trades futures and options for agricultural commodities, foreign currencies, interest rates, and stock indexes. Get 10-minute price updates and daily settlements for the price of, say, lean hogs, fluid milk, or random-length lumber. Money Quick Quotes Money magazine's market database, with prices delayed at least 15 minutes. The best of the collection. When you're done, it gives you the chance to look up the company in Hoover's. You can also check the Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 500, and Nasdaq Composite. Search for a quote by entering a company symbol or series of symbols: Search for a company's symbol by entering a company name or keyword: Nasdaq "The stock market for the next hundred years." The newest American exchange, with many tech stocks trading on its floor. Get 15-minute delayed Nasdaq quotes here, or use Money magazine's Quick Quotes. New York Stock Exchange The world's largest marketplace for equities. NYSE's site doesn't offer quotes, but you can download historical statistics for free. For 15-minute delayed prices, look at Money magazine's Quick Quotes. Philadelphia Stock Exchange The first stock exchange in the United States, PHLX has closing graphs of sector index options and ASCII diagrams of equities and equity options. Not a lot of raw data on the site. US Exchanges | World Exchanges Bolsa Mexicana de Valores The Mexican Stock Market offers delayed stock quotes, but you have to know the symbol. This frames-intensive site is hard to navigate. Bourse de Paris Closing prices for companies listed on the Paris Stock Exchange, but you have to drill down to individual countries, and there's no search engine. Italian Stock Exchange Daily graphs for each stock, arranged alphabetically. London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange The top futures and options exchange in Europe and one of the top three in the world. Free registration. Madrid Stock Exchange Get a market snapshot for the Bolsa de Madrid through their indexes, get a 15-minute delayed listing for the IBEX35 stocks, or see the closing prices for stocks on the General Madrid Stock Exchange Index. Nikkei 225 on the Dow Jones Telerate (Asia Pacific) Home Page Look at Japan's index though the Dow Jones Telerate arm in Hong Kong. The company sells real-time quotes to brokers, but offers free delayed information on Asian markets and indexes here. Good listing of news by country as well. Registration is free. Stock Exchange of Singapore Summary of raw data for the day, including the top 20 losers/gainers. Has contacts and addresses for individual listed companies, but not much more. The Tel-Aviv Stock Exchange Look at the daily review for market summaries, or see shares by sector and alphabetically. The Vancouver Stock Exchange The site does not supply quotes, but it does offer a market summary with the day's most active companies. Contact numbers and general information on the exchange's 1,500 listed companies are here too. World Exchanges, from Financial Resource Guide A good, simple directory hitting the big world exchanges.

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