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World stock markets today
Markets that were open at different hours, in different currencies, in one ranking. Read it for the disagreements: on most days these twelve do not move together, and the days they do are the ones worth noticing.
12 indices · snapshot from within the last 5 minutes
| Index | Today | Level | From 52w high | 52-week range | vs 200-day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Russell 2000United States · USD | +1.13% | 2,953.17 | -3.8% | +7.9% | |
| FTSE 100United Kingdom · GBP | +0.65% | 10,826.39 | -1.5% | +4.7% | |
| Dow Jones Industrial AverageUnited States · USD | +0.56% | 53,061.95 | -3.1% | +6.6% | |
| S&P 500United States · USD | +0.46% | 7,666.60 | -1.9% | +7.6% | |
| Nasdaq CompositeUnited States · USD | +0.45% | 26,217.83 | -3.6% | +7.7% | |
| KOSPISouth Korea · KRW | +0.26% | 6,579.48 | -29.9% | +9.2% | |
| DAXGermany · EUR | +0.25% | 25,916.50 | -2.7% | +5.2% | |
| EURO STOXX 50Eurozone · EUR | +0.08% | 6,369.70 | -3.3% | +6.0% | |
| Shanghai CompositeMainland China · CNY | +0.02% | 3,942.09 | -7.4% | -1.7% | |
| Nikkei 225Japan · JPY | -0.17% | 64,214.48 | -11.8% | +9.3% | |
| Hang Seng IndexHong Kong · HKD | -0.39% | 25,213.31 | -10.1% | -1.8% | |
| BSE SENSEXIndia · INR | -0.55% | 76,152.86 | -11.6% | -4.2% |
Twelve markets, twelve different trading days
Right now 9 of these 12 indices are up and 3 are down, and 9 sit above their own 200-day average — 75% of the list. That last figure is the one worth watching over time: it moves slowly, and a world where two of twelve are above their long average is a different world from one where eleven are, regardless of what any single day did.
The most important caveat is in the timing. These markets do not trade at the same hours, so a single row is not a single window: by the time the US session opens, Tokyo and Hong Kong have already closed on what they made of yesterday's New York close. A day when Asia is red and America is green is often the same piece of news being priced twice, twelve hours apart, and reading it as a disagreement between markets gets the causality backwards.
The second caveat is currency. Every figure here is in the index's own currency, which is how the index is quoted and not how a foreign investor experiences it. A dollar-based holder of a Japanese index earns the index move plus the yen move, and in a week the currency runs, that second term can be the larger of the two. Nothing on this page is converted or hedged.
What the table is good for is the shape rather than the number: whether the world is moving together, which markets are near their highs while others are still climbing back, and whether the leaders keep being the same ones. For the long-run version of exactly that question, the annual returns of these same twelve indices go back as far as 1928.
World index annual returns, year by year since each index began →
Questions people ask about this
- These markets close at different times — are the moves comparable?
- Not exactly, and this is the main thing to know before quoting the table. Asian markets have closed before the US opens, so on any given calendar day the Nikkei's move reflects yesterday's US session while the S&P's does not. Comparing across a single row is a comparison of overlapping but non-identical windows.
- Are these in dollars?
- No. Each index is quoted in its own currency, so a dollar investor's return in a foreign index would be this figure plus or minus the currency move over the same period — which in a sharp currency week can be larger than the index move itself. Nothing here is converted or hedged.
- Why does the 52-week column matter more than the daily move?
- Because a day is noise almost everywhere. The distance from the 52-week high is the column that separates a market grinding out new highs from one still climbing out of a decline, and it is stable enough to still be true tomorrow. The long-run record for these same twelve indices is on the world index returns page.
Sources and method
- Data
- Financial Modeling Prep — Live index quotes retrieved through Plutux's own data service in a single batched request.
- The index publishers — S&P Dow Jones Indices, Nasdaq, FTSE Russell, Nikkei, Hang Seng Indexes, Deutsche Boerse, Korea Exchange, Shanghai Stock Exchange, BSE and STOXX each publish and maintain their own index.
- How it was calculated
- One quote per index. Today's change is against the previous close for that market, which is that market's own previous session, not a common cut-off. The 52-week and 200-day columns compare the current level with the trailing 52-week high and the 200-day simple moving average as supplied with the quote. Local currency throughout; price levels, so dividends are excluded.
- How often it changes
- Refreshed through the US session. The snapshot is cached for five minutes. Markets that are closed show their most recent session.
- Citing this page
Free to quote — please link rather than copy the table.
Plutux. "World stock markets today." https://plutux.ai/resources/tools/world-market-snapshot
Historical figures for information only — not investment advice, and not a forecast.
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