Performance for Several Stock Market Indexes
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Going to the financial times website with world indices of the global markets (Markets.ft.com, 2015), there are summary reports for the performance indices of several countries. Basing on the performance of regional stock markets, it is evident that there is variance in the indices of Asia Pacific, Europe and the American equity markets. It is almost expectable that the performance of the markets would not perform correspondingly, and the difference varies over time. The general performance of the Asia Pacific market over a period of a week, experienced rise, fall and breaks in stock performance as compared to that of other markets.
The European stock market, however, did not have breaks, but all the same experienced a fluctuating performance though recording lowest opening with a closing high over a five-day period (Markets.ft.com, 2015). Going back to compare with the Asian performance in terms of opening and closing, the market also recorded a low opening and a high close, though the difference is not as much as that of the European market. The American market, on the other hand, recorded a poor performance as compared to that of other regions (Markets.ft.com, 2015). As other areas were recording a closing higher than the opening of the market, the market recorded a significantly lower close below the opening stock. However, there were no breaks in the stock performance; the market recorded a negative performance throughout the period.
Though the regional markets may record a percentage fall or rise in performance, it is not an indicator that the stock markets within the region recorded a similar performance on the same scale. A change in stock market performance shifts the expectations of investors in terms of earnings and risks depending on the direction of the performance (Markets.ft.com, 2015). The reason for the low or high performance of the markets depends on the trading of the stocks, and change of the value of stocks within those markets. The Higher performance will mean higher dividends paid to the investors and low-performance little profits