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S&P Futures trade with a multiplier, sized to correspond to $250 per point per contract. If the S&P Futures are trading at 2,000, a single futures contract would have a market value of $500,000. For every 1 point the S&P 500 Index fluctuates, the S&P Futures contract will increase or decrease $250.
The result is that a trader who believed the market would rally could simply acquire Dow Futures and make a huge amount of profit as a result of the leverage factor; if the market were to rise to 14,000, for instance, from the current 10,000, each Dow Futures contract would gain $20,000 in value (4,000 point rise x 5 leverage factor = $20,000).
Stock market index future. In finance, a stock market index future is a cash-settled futures contract on the value of a particular stock market index. The turnover for the global market in exchange-traded equity index futures is notionally valued, for 2008, by the Bank for International Settlements at US$130 trillion. [1]
Oil futures were slightly lower. West Texas Intermediate crude oil dipped 0.75% to $79.47 a barrel. Brent crude , the international benchmark, fell 0.8% to $81.67 a barrel.
Here's where US indexes stood shortly after the 9:30 a.m. opening bell on Monday: S&P 500: 5,332.46, down 0.3%. Dow Jones Industrial Average: 39,280.12, down 0.6% (221 points) Nasdaq composite ...
Consumer Price Index showed a 2.9% year-over-year increase, slightly below the 3% forecast. Investors see a 57% chance of a Fed rate cut in September, per CME FedWatch tool data.
A daily volume chart of the S&P 500 index from January 3, 1950, to February 19, 2016. Logarithmic Chart of S&P 500 Index with and without Inflation and with Best Fit and other graphs to Feb 2024. The Standard and Poor's 500, or simply the S&P 500, [ 5] is a stock market index tracking the stock performance of 500 of the largest companies listed ...
Read on to learn how all three stock market indexes performed over the past 15 years. The S&P 500: 15-year return of 495% (12.6% annually) The S&P 500 tracks 500 large and profitable U.S. companies.