Use any of the stock market websites you are comfortable with in order to complete this assignment.

1. What does the Dow Jones Industrial attempt to measure? What was the DJI yesterday, how does it compare with today? List three companies on the DJI

2. What was the S&P 500 yesterday, how does it compare with today? List three companies on the S&P 500.

3. What was the NASDAQ composite yesterday, how does it compare with today?

4. Look up the current price of the following stocks and compare it with yesterday:

GM

Boeing

Valero

Apple

5.  Given the data available, what conclusions can you draw about the current state of the stock market?

6.  Why are there mixed results for different sectors of the economy?

7.  Go to the NASDAQ.com website and choose “sector” at the top of the page.  Choose a sector that you think would be good to investigate.  Choose one company from this sector. 

a. What is its current value? 

b. Click on “Hoover’s Profile.  What does this company do? 

c. Would this be a good company to invest in?

8.  Go back to nasdaq.com and choose “IPOs”

a. Do you know any of the companies listed in the expected IPOs, the Pricings,        and the Filings sections?  List the ones you know.

b. What two companies in the IPOs have had the highest rate of return?