Nikkei

A trademark used for an index of the relative price of selected stocks listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.

Short for Japan's Nikkei 225 Stock Average, the leading and most-respected index of Japanese stocks. It is a price-weighted index comprised of Japan's top 225 blue-chip companies on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. The Nikkei is equivalent to the Dow Jones Industrial Average Index in the U.S. In fact, it was called the Nikkei Dow Jones Stock Average from 1975 to 1985.

Investopedia Says:
The index has been calculated since Sept 1950 (retroactively since to May 1949). A few years after the country's leading business newspaper the (Nikkei or Japan Economic Daily) began to commission the calculations, it was renamed.

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Index of 225 leading stocks traded on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. Called the Nikkei Dow Jones Stock Average until it was renamed in May 1985, it is similar to the Dow Jones Industrial Average because it is composed of representative Blue Chip companies (termed first-section companies in Japan) and is a Price-Weighted Index. That means that the movement of each stock, in yen or dollars respectively, is weighed equally regardless of its market capitalization. The Nikkei Stock Average, informally called the Nikkei Index and often still referred to as the Nikkei Dow, is published by the Nihon Keizai Shimbun (Japan Economic Journal) and is the most widely quoted Japanese stock index.

Also widely quoted is the Tokyo Stock Price Index (Topix) of all issues listed in the First Section.

is short for:

Stock index in Japan

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Dansk (Danish)
idioms:

• nikkei average    Nikkeis gennemsnit
• nikkei index    Nikkeis indeks (børs)

Français (French)
idioms:

• nikkei average    moyenne Nikkei
• nikkei index    Indice de la Bourse de Tokyo, Indice Nikkei

Deutsch (German)
idioms:

• nikkei average    Nikkei-Index (der Wertpapierpreise an der Tokioer Börse)
• nikkei index    Nikkei-Index (der Wertpapierpreise an der Tokioer

Ελληνική (Greek)
idioms:

• nikkei average    μέσος δείκτης τιμών του χρηματιστηρίου του Τόκιο
• nikkei index    δείκτης τιμών του χρηματιστηρίου του Τόκιο

Italiano (Italian)
borsa di Tokio

idioms:

• nikkei average    indice Nikkei
• nikkei index    indice Nikkei

Português (Portuguese)
n. - descendente de japoneses

idioms:

• nikkei average    média Nikkei
• nikkei index    índice Nikkei

Русский (Russian)
индекс Никкей

idioms:

• nikkei average    средний Никкей
• nikkei index    индекс Никкей

Español (Spanish)
idioms:

• nikkei average    promedio Nikkei
• nikkei index    índice de los precios de las acciones en la bolsa de Tokio

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - Nikkeis index (börs)

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
日经

idioms:

• nikkei average    日经平均指数
• nikkei index    日经指数

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
日經

idioms:

• nikkei average    日經平均指數
• nikkei index    日經指數

한국어 (Korean)
일본 도쿄의 주식시장

idioms:

• nikkei average    일본 도쿄의 주식시장의 주식가표
• nikkei index    일본 도쿄의 주식시장의 주식가표

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 日経
adj. - 日経の

idioms:

• nikkei average    日経平均
• nikkei index    日経指数

עברית (Hebrew)
nikkei average - ‮ממוצע שערי הניקיי‬

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