Friday, 5 December, 2025
NASDAQ — short for National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations — officially opened in February 1971 as the world’s first electronic stock exchange. It began as an automated quotation system and gradually evolved into a fully digital trading platform, improving liquidity and execution speed while reducing bid-ask spreads. Over […]
Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) The Dow is the “grandfather” of American stock indexes — launched in 1896 by Charles Dow to track a small group of key industrial companies. Today, it is a 30-stock, price-weighted index, meaning higher-priced stocks have greater influence regardless of market capitalization. S&P 500 The […]