Stock Indices

 The Bovespa Index is the main indicator of the Brazilian stock market’s average performance. Ibovespa’s relevance comes from two facts: it reflects the variation of BM&FBOVESPA’s most traded stocks and ... [full story]

Because the S&P 500 Dividend Index is calculated using the same set of component securities, same shares outstanding, same capitalization-weighting methodology and same index divisor as are used to calculate ... [full story]

The S&P 500 Dividend Index is designed to track the total cash dividends from the constituents of the S&P 500 Index over a specified quarterly accrual period. It enables the ... [full story]

In June 2007 the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) announced that it is beginning to publish daily data on the value of the CBOE S&P 500 PutWrite Index (ticker symbol ... [full story]

The CBOE S&P 500 2% OTM BuyWrite Index (BXY) uses the same methodology as the widely accepted CBOE S&P 500 BuyWrite Index (BXM) but the BXY Index is calculated using ... [full story]

The CBOE Exchange Index (EXQ), created and launched by CBOE in January 2006, is an equal-dollar weighted, narrow-based security index, and is re-balanced on a quarterly basis. EXQ options are ... [full story]

In 2007 the Fund Evaluation Group (FEG) issued a new study entitled "Evaluation of BuyWrite and Volatility Indexes - Using the CBOE DJIA BuyWrite Index (BXD) and the CBOE DJIA ... [full story]

The CBOE DJIA Volatility Index (VXD) is based on real-time prices of options on the Dow Jones Industrial AverageSM (DJIA, with an options ticker of DJX), and is designed to ... [full story]

The new CBOE NASDAQ-100 BuyWrite Index (BXN) is a benchmark index that measures the performance of a theoretical portfolio that owns a portfolio of the stocks included in the NASDAQ-100 ... [full story]

The first VIX, introduced by the CBOE in 1993, was a weighted measure of the implied volatility of eight S&P 100 at-the-money put and call options. Ten years later, it ... [full story]