Index

1. Securities prices - summary information.

A number showing the variation in price of a group of securities with respect to a chosen base period.

Indices may be calculated as arithmetical or geometric averages and individual components may be weighted, for example by market capitalisation.

For example the FTSE 100 or the S&P 500.

2. Financial data - summaries.

A comparable measure in relation to any set of financial data.

For example, inflation indices or interest rate indices.

3. Data - summaries.

A comparable measure in relation to any set of data.

See also

• Air Quality Index
• Bloomberg Index Services Limited (BISL)
• Bond market index
• Business confidence index
• Composite indices
• Consumer confidence index
• Consumer Price Index (CPI)
• Consumer Prices Index (CPI)
• Credit index
• Credit default swap index
• DAX
• Employment cost index
• Equity swap
• Euro Stoxx 50
• Exchange-traded funds
• Fear index
• FTSE 100
• FTSE4Good
• GfK consumer confidence index
• Global Green Finance Index
• Global Index of Public Registers
• Gross National Happiness Index
• Happy Planet Index
• Harmonised index of consumer prices (HICP)
• Herfindahl index
• ICT Development Index
• Index linker
• Index linked bond
• Index-linked gilt
• Index-linking
• Index method
• Index numbers
• Index tracker
• Indexation
• Inflation
• Interest rate index
• Input index
• ISM Prices Paid index
• iTraxx
• Laspeyres index
• Limited Price Indexation
• Monetary and Financial Conditions Index
• MSCI
• Output price index
• Overnight indexed swap (OIS)
• Over night index average rate
• Paasche index
• Personal Consumption Expenditures price index (PCE)
• Producer Price Index
• Profitability index
• Purchasing Managers' Index
• Retail mobility index
• Retail Prices Index (RPI)
• S&P 500
• Security
• Services Producer Price Index
• Statistics
• Sterling overnight index average (SONIA)
• Sterling exchange rate index
• STOXX Europe 600
• Tracker fund
• Transit mobility index
• USDX
• Volatility index
• Wealth Added Index (WAI)