The other stock market indices which resemble the SMI are the stock market indices representative of other countries in the world. These include the French CAC 40 index, the German DAX 30 index, the British FTSE 100 index and the American Dow Jones index. There are almost as many such indexes as there are economies in the world. More often than not, these stock market indices reflect the best stocks in a financial centre and operate through a calculation weighted according to market capitalization.