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Dow Jones

The Dow Jones Industrial Average, commonly just called the ‘Dow’, was historically the benchmark for US stock performance

The Standard & Poors 500 index is one of the most popular indexes used for trading or benchmarking the US equities market

The FTSE 100 Index is the most widely followed UK stock market index comprised of the top 100 UK listed companies

The NASDAQ 100 Index was launched in the USA in 1971, and it remains the largest electronic equities trading market in the world

The S&P ASX 200 index tracks the performance of share prices in Australia

The FTSE 250 tracks the largest 250 companies listed on the UK's London Stock Exchange, after those in the FTSE 100

The Deutsche Aktien IndeX is the benchmark stock market index for Germany

The VIX Index is often referred to as the Fear Index, because it is a gauge of implied volatility of the S&P 500

Japan’s Nikkei 225 index is the benchmark stock market index for the Tokyo Stock Exchange

Indexes represent the average performance of a group of shares, usually the largest shares in a market ranked by capitalisation, or value

The Euro Stoxx 50 is a benchmark for the performance of the 50 largest companies listed on stock exchanges in the Eurozone