The CAC 40 (Cotation Assistée en Continu) is a capitalization-weighted price index of the 40 most actively traded shares on the Paris Bourse (now Euronext Paris).
DAX is a stock performance index that includes dividends and is composed of the 30 most actively traded German blue-chip stocks on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.
The FTSE 100, widely known as the Footsie, is a major market capitalization-weighted index consisting of 100 blue-chip stocks listed on the London Stock Exchange, commonly referenced for gauging the performance of leading companies in the UK.
The Hang Seng Index (HSI) is an arithmetically weighted index reflecting the performance of the largest companies listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKEX).
The OEX, pronounced as three letters, is Wall Street shorthand for the Standard & Poor's 100 stock index, composed of stocks for which options are traded on the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE).
The Wilshire 5000 is a stock index tracking 5,000 common stocks and is considered one of the most broadly based barometers of American stock performance.
