Foreign Exchange Market (Forex)
The foreign exchange market is a decentralized global market for trading in currencies. It is also referred to as currency, forex or FX market. Trading occurs between different types of buyers and sellers that...
Charles Schwab Corporation
The Charles Schwab Corporation (NYSE: SCHW) provides securities brokerage, banking through Schwab Bank, and related financial services to individual investors. The corporation also serves independent investment advisors and company benefit plan sponsors. The Charles...
Futures Exchange
A futures exchange is the main entity where investors can buy or sell regular futures contracts; it may also called a futures market. A futures contract is a derivative agreement to buy a...
Dow Jones & Company
Dow Jones & Company explains the world and the world of business. With authoritative journalism and smart technology, we provide a window on events, clarify issues, inspire new thinking and give readers and business...
S&P 500
S&P’s U.S. indices are designed to reflect the U.S. equity markets and, through the markets, the U.S. economy. The S&P 500 focuses on the large-cap sector of the market; however, since it includes a...
Standard & Poor’s
With offices in 23 countries and a history that dates back more than 150 years, Standard & Poor’s is known to investors worldwide as a leader of financial- market intelligence. Today Standard & Poor’s...
Russell Indexes
In 1984, a team from Russell used insights about investment management behavior to launch the Russell Indexes. These new tools were designed to produce indexes that objectively track performance and better reflect investment manager...
NASDAQ-100
The NASDAQ-100 Index includes 100 of the largest non-financial securities listed on The NASDAQ Stock Market® (NASDAQ®) based on market capitalization. It does not contain securities of financial companies including investment companies. Index Calculation...
Nasdaq Composite
The NASDAQ Composite Index measures all NASDAQ domestic and internationally based common type stocks listed on The Nasdaq Stock Market. Today, the Index includes over 3,000 securities, making it larger than most other stock...
SogoTrade
SogoTrade is a division of Wang Investments Securities. Products and services are offered by Wang Investments, member of FINRA and SIPC. Wang Investments is an online deep discount brokerage firm – providing a wide...
Scottrade
Scottrade is a veteran in the discount broker niche after more than 30 years in business. They’ve gained a consistent reputation for having high level of customer satisfaction. They offer a wide range of investment vehicles...
Dow Jones Industrial Average
The Dow Jones Industrial, Transportation and Utilities Averages were originally created and maintained by Charles Dow, editor of the The Wall Street Journal. For the sake of continuity, composition changes are rare, and generally...
MICEX RTS
OJSC MICEX-RTS is the largest Russian exchange both in terms of turnover and the extensive client base. The main goal of the exchange is to provide Russian and foreign market participants and investors with...
Bond Market
The term bond market has many different meanings, which include fixed income market and credit income market. It is a financial environment or market where individuals can apply for new debts which are most...
Firstrade Securities
Firstrade is a leading discount online brokerage serving investors for over 25 years. In addition to online stock trading, they also offer options, mutual funds, ETFs, bonds and more on their online trading platform....