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Index | Indexes | Indices

First let's eliminate confusion. Indexes has the same meaning as Indices, and it's the plural of Index.
A stock market index is a basket of shares(stocks) designed to track market price changes.
Each stock market index has its own methodology for calculating the effect of changes in individual index components. 
Most stock market indexes uses capitalization-weighted adjustments to account for the differences in company size.

Indexes can track market characteristics instead of market values, for example, the Volatility Index (VIX) measures options premium to determine the market's expectation for future volatility.

There are also economic indices that track and measures the economic health, such as the Consumer Price Index (CPI).


The most popular Americas market indexes:

 Index name
 Yahoo Symbol  Components Country
    
 Dow Jones Industrial Average^DJI
30
  US
 Dow Jones Transportation
^DJT
20 US
 Dow Jones Utilities
^DJU
15 US
 Dow Jones Composite^DJA
65 US
 NYSE Composite
^NYA
 1652 US
 NYSE International 100
 ^NIN 100 US
 NYSE World Leaders
 ^NWL 200 US
 Nasdaq Composite
^IXIC
 3937
 US
 Nasdaq 100
 ^NDX 153
 US
 Nasdaq Banks
 ^IXBK 978 US
 S&P 500
^GSPC
 500 US
 S&P 100
 ^OEX100
 US
 S&P 400 MidCap
 ^MID 400 US
 S&P 600 SmallCap
 ^SML 600 US
 Major Market ^XMI20
 US
 Russell 2000^RUT
 2000 US
 Philadelphia Gold & Silver ^XAU 32 US
 S&P 500 Volatility Index^VIX
500
 US
 CBOE NASDAQ 100 Voltility^VXN 
 153
 US
 S&P TSX Composite ^GSPTSE 60 CANADA
 MerVal ^MERV17
 ARGENTINA
 Bovespa ^BVSP 66 BRAZILIA
 IPC ^MXX 37 MEXICO



The most popular Europe stock market indexes:

  Index name Yahoo Symbol Components Country
    
 FTSE 100 ^FTSE 100
UK
 DAX 30
 ^GDAXI 30 GERMANY
 CAC 40 ^FCHI 40 FRANCE
 Swiss Market    SMI
 ^SSMI 20SWISS
 Stockholm General^OSEAX
 610SWEDEN
 Madrid General^SMSI
-
 SPAIN
 OSE All Share ^OSEAX 182NORWAY
 AEX General^AEX
 25NETHERLAND
 BEL-20 ^BFX20
 BELGIUM
 ATX ^ATX20
AUSTRIA
 EURO-STOOX 50
 50
 



The most popular AsiaPacific stock market indexes:

  Index name Yahoo Symbol Components Country
    
 All Ordinaries ^AORD
 489AUSTRALIA
 NZSE 50 ^NZ50 50 NEW ZEALAND
 Nikkei 225 ^N225 225 JAPAN
 Hang Seng ^HSI 45 CHINA
 Shanghai Composite ^SSEC
 -CHINA
 Straits Times ^STI 30 SINGAPORE
 KLSE Composite ^KLSE 30 MALAYSIA
 Jakarta Composite ^JKSE 376 INDONESIA
 Taiwan Weighted ^TWII - TAIWAN
 Seoul Composite ^KS11 765 SOUTH KOREA
 BSE 30 ^BSESN 30 INDIA
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