The new york stock exchange is a stock exchange only, Nasdaq is a company that owns a stock exchange called the NASDAQ OMX, however there is also a NASDAQ composite which is a market average used to tell how the market is doing. The Dow or Dow Jones Industrial average is an average of the largest 30 companies in the US economy.
Market IndexesNASDAQ and the Dow Jones Industrial Average are separate "indexes" of stocks. They track the changes in the value of the stock of different companies. Each index includes different stocks. NASDAQ includes a lot of different companies, many of which are technology companies. The Dow includes just a few dozen companies.
dow
it is the s&p 500
Nasdaq,Dow,and S&P
No-- for example MicroSoft is one of the Dow thirty and its primary trading exchange is the Nasdaq-NMS
Dow Jones and NASDAQ
THe most common are the DOW and the NASDAQ. There is also heavy trading on the FOREX.
VIX is the nominal trading volumn in a specific trading exchange e.i. S&P, DOW, or NASADQ.
The CNBC website provides prices for Dow futures along with Nasdaq and other stock exchange figures. Alternatively brokers' sites will also provide this information for each market.
The DOW only represents 30 companies in the stock market, yes they are the biggest, best and oldest in the group. The NASDAQ has 2877 and 3796 in the NYSE so as you can see the DOW only represent a very small portion of the stock market here in the US.
The Dow Jones Transportation Average, which was also created by Dow. Along with the NASDAQ Composite, the S&P 500 Index, and the Russell 2000 Index, the Dow is among the most closely watched benchmark indexes tracking targeted stock market activity. So yes, there are similar indexes which attempt to capture the movement and activity of the American stock markets.