Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• DOW JONES GLOBAL INDEXES
  
  Dow Jones Global Indexes are market capitalization weighted indexes that track the stock market performance of more than 3,000 companies in 34 countries. Together they represent more than 80% of the equity capital on stock markets throughout the world. Eventually, the indexes will include every country where stocks can be purchased. Market capitalization weighting means that those companies with higher market capitalizations, figured by multiplying the current price per share by the number of existing shares, have a greater impact on the index than stocks with smaller capitalizations. Global market performance is also tracked in eight geographically defined regional indexes and in the Dow Jones World Stock Index, a composite of the global indexes.
  
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