It has been calculated daily by the Nihon Keizai Shimbun Nikkei newspaper since It is a price-weighted index the unit is yen , and the components are reviewed once a year.

Currently, the Nikkei is the most widely quoted average of Japanese equities, similar to the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

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In fact, it was known as the "Nikkei Dow Jones Stock Average" from to The Nikkei began to be calculated on September 7, , retroactively calculated back to May 16, Since January the index is updated every 15 seconds during trading sessions. The Nikkei Futures, introduced at Singapore Exchange SGX in , the Osaka Securities Exchange OSE in , Chicago Mercantile Exchange CME in , is now an internationally recognized futures index.

The Nikkei average has deviated sharply from the textbook model of stock averages which grow at a steady exponential rate. The average hit its all-time high on December 29, , during the peak of the Japanese asset price bubble , when it reached an intra-day high of 38, Subsequently, it lost nearly all these gains, closing at 7, Another major index for the Tokyo Stock Exchange is the Topix.

The index continued to drop throughout , eventually bottoming out at The Nikkei started near 10,, hitting a peak of 15, in May. By , it has reached over 20, mark; marking a gain of over 10, in 2 years making it one of the fastest growing stock market indexes in the world.

The index is a price-weighted index. As of late , the company with the largest influence on the index is Fast Retailing. As of February , the Nikkei consists of the following companies: Japanese securities identification code in parentheses. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

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