Daily stock market Summary | 8 October

Within this article you can find a summary of what happened today within the United States stock market. In particular, you can find 4 types of information:

  • Daily performance and performance of the 5 winners and losers of the best stock indices in the world.
  • Daily performance of the S&P 500 sectors.
  • Performance of the so-called FAANGs, or 5 of the most important companies listed on the US stock market.
  • Companies that have reached a New All-Time Highs and Lows during this trading session with some key information about them (Market Capitalization, annual Sales, annual Net Income and Annual Dividend Yield ).

Performance of the best indices and components

The daily performance and performance of the 5 winners and losers of the following indices:

  • S&P 500
    • index of the 500 largest U.S. publicly traded companies.
  • NASDAQ 100:
    • index of the largest non-financial companies listed on the NASDAQ.
  • Dow Jones Industrial Average:
    • index of 30 United States bluechip companies.

S&P 500 sectors performance

The daily performance of the S&P 500 sectors:


FAANGs performance

The performance of the so-called FAANGs, or 5 of the most important companies listed on the US stock market:

  • Facebook (F)
  • Apple (A)
  • Amazon (A)
  • Netflix (N)
  • Google (G)

NEW All-Time Highs and Lows

The screen shows some of the companies that reached a NEW historical HIGH (or LOW) today and some key information about them (Market Capitalization, annual Sales, annual Net Income and Annual Dividend Yield).

If a company is at an all-time high, it means that it has currently reached a value that it had never been able to achieve before, so it is a clear sign of the company’s strength.

On the other hand, a company that sets a record low means that it never reached such a low value, a clear sign of weakness.


Sources & additional info

*Indices, components, FAANGs and sectors performance by barchart.com
*FAANGs Logos by Wikipedia.com


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