S&P500;


THE S&P500; SMARTCOIN

If you have read the introduction on Bitshares smartcoins, you know now that these assets are guarantee at 175% minimum. based on the same principle as Bit20 or Twentix, we've created the S&P500.; In fact, it was much easier because it didn't require to build an algorithm. The well known S&P500; already exists, so we simply use it as a reference.
The smartcoin will act exactly as the traditional index.

The S&P500; is available on the BitShares decentralized Exchange. If you want to operate a manual research, the asset name is : SNPFH

INTORODUCTION

The Standard & Poor's 500, often abbreviated as the S&P; 500, or just the S&P;, is an American stock market index based on the market capitalizations of 500 large companies having common stock listed on the NYSE or NASDAQ. The S&P; 500 index components and their weightings are determined by S&P; Dow Jones Indices. It differs from other U.S. stock market indices, such as the Dow Jones Industrial Average or the Nasdaq Composite index, because of its diverse constituency and weighting methodology. It is one of the most commonly followed equity indices, and many consider it one of the best representations of the U.S. stock market, and a bellwether for the U.S. economy. The National Bureau of Economic Research has classified common stocks as a leading indicator of business cycles.

The S&P; 500 was developed and continues to be maintained by S&P; Dow Jones Indices, a joint venture majority-owned by S&P; Global. S&P; Dow Jones Indices publishes many stock market indices such as the Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P; MidCap 400, the S&P; SmallCap 600, and the S&P; Composite 1500. It is a free-float capitalization-weighted index, and has many ticker symbols, such as: ^GSPC, INX, and $SPX.

HISTORY

The "Composite Index", as the S&P; 500 was first called when it introduced its first stock index in 1923, began tracking a small number of stocks. Three years later in 1926, the Composite Index expanded to 90 stocks and then in 1957 it expanded to its current 500. Standard & Poor's, a company that doles out financial information and analysis, was founded in 1860 by Henry Varnum Poor. In 1941, Poor's Publishing (Henry Varnum Poor's original company) merged with Standard Statistics (founded in 1906 as the Standard Statistics Bureau) and therein assumed the name Standard and Poor's Corporation. Its primary daily stock market index was the "S&P; 90", a value-weighted index based on 90 stocks. Standard & Poor's also published a weekly index of 423.0 companies. The S&P; 500 index in its present form began on March 4, 1957. Technology has allowed the index to be calculated and disseminated in real time. The S&P; 500 is widely used as a measure of the general level of stock prices, as it includes both growth stocks and value stocks.

In September 1962, Ultronic Systems Corp. entered into an agreement with Standard and Poor's. Under the terms of this agreement, Ultronics computed the S&P; 500 Stock Composite Index, the 425 Stock Industrial Index, the 50 Stock Utility Index, and the 25 Stock Rail Index. Throughout the market day these statistics were furnished to Standard & Poor's. In addition, Ultronics also computed and reported the 94 S&P; sub-indexes.