USA: Share Price Index
(measure: index points, source: The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD))
* indicates monthly or quarterly data series
Share Price Index in the USA, August, 2019:
For that indicator, The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) provides data for the USA from 1960 to 2019. The average value for the USA during that period was 35.41 index points with a minumum of 2.98 index points in June 1962 and a maximum of 124.24 index points in January 2018.
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Measure: index points
Source: The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
Source: The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
Definition: Share price indices are calculated from the prices of common shares of companies traded on national or foreign stock exchanges. They are usually determined by the stock exchange, using the closing daily values for the monthly data, and normally expressed as simple arithmetic averages of the daily data.
A price index measures changes in the market capitalization of the basket of shares in the index.
Share price indices reflect the corporate sector's underlying profit and growth record and also act like a barometer of investor confidence in the state of industry and the economy.
