This valuable resource contains descriptive profiles along with historical performance data on 300 of the world's leading global, regional, and local securities market indices and subindices covering 10 asset classes.
F S Index - International draws pertinent business information of companies, industries and products in Canada, Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, Asia and Oceania from the leading business and financial publications. Each issue contains valuable information on corporate acquisitions and mergers, new products, technological developments and social and political factors affecting business around the globe.
The book is a discussion of the composition and estimation procedures used in the construction of more than 200 financial market averages, spanning 24 countries. It explains to investors how the various market barometers are computed, what stocks are used to compile them, and how indexes and averages are applied to derivative securities.
Originally published in 1996, The International Guide to Securities Market Indices provides a comprehensive overview of the securities market indices and offers assistance to professionals as well as individual investors in the selection of an appropriate securities market index, on a worldwide basis. The Guide�s identifies and catalogues available performance indicators along with their publishers and describes their relevant characteristics and a perspective on their historical price and total return performance. It also contains descriptive profiles along with historical performance data on 400 of the world�s leading global, regional and local securities market indices and sub-indices covering 10 asset classes.
In 2011 the World Bank—with funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation—launched the Global Findex database, the world's most comprehensive data set on how adults save, borrow, make payments, and manage risk. Drawing on survey data collected in collaboration with Gallup, Inc., the Global Findex database covers more than 140 economies around the world. The initial survey round was followed by a second one in 2014 and by a third in 2017. Compiled using nationally representative surveys of more than 150,000 adults age 15 and above in over 140 economies, The Global Findex Database 2017: Measuring Financial Inclusion and the Fintech Revolution includes updated indicators on access to and use of formal and informal financial services. It has additional data on the use of financial technology (or fintech), including the use of mobile phones and the Internet to conduct financial transactions. The data reveal opportunities to expand access to financial services among people who do not have an account—the unbanked—as well as to promote greater use of digital financial services among those who do have an account. The Global Findex database has become a mainstay of global efforts to promote financial inclusion. In addition to being widely cited by scholars and development practitioners, Global Findex data are used to track progress toward the World Bank goal of Universal Financial Access by 2020 and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. The database, the full text of the report, and the underlying country-level data for all figures—along with the questionnaire, the survey methodology, and other relevant materials—are available at www.worldbank.org/globalfindex.