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NASDAQ stock market indices is indices that calculated base on stocks listed in NASDAQ stock exchange. Basically there are two type of indice in NASDAQ stock exchange, which is base on market and base on business sector or industries.

Investor look NASDAQ stock market indices more as a barometer of technology stocks, because most of the major stock that play a big role in the NASDAQ indices are the technology stock like Microsoft.

To give an investor a better direction on what investment sector that most investors invest, NASDAQ create indices base on the business sector, like NASDAQ banking, NASDAQ Health Care index, NASDAQ Biotechnology indices, NASDAQ Telecommunication, NASDAQ Transportation, and so on.
As China region economy is booming, and can be a barometer of Asia economy, NASDAQ also have NASDAQ China index.

NASDAQ also selected 100 non-financial companies that largest in market capitalization under NASDAQ-100 indices, these 100 companies should be able to represent the market condition and direction whether the market is doing well or not.

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