This Bakery Business market research report summary is from IBISWorld which also sells a full version of this report. 1  According to IBISWorld, firms within this industry manufacture fresh and frozen bread and baked goods, including cakes, muffins and croissants but excluding cookies and crackers.
A stock index or stock market index is a measurement of the value of a section of the stock market. It is computed from the prices of selected stocks (typically a weighted average). It is a tool used by investors and financial managers to describe the market, and to compare the return on specific investments.
Definition. An index of stocks in which companies that have a greater overall market capitalization are more strongly represented than companies with smaller market capitalizations. An index is weighted in this manner in order to approximate the effect that price changes in the stock of each company have on the market.