S&P 500 (Standard and Poor’s 500)
What is S&P 500 (Standard and Poor’s 500)
The Standard & Poor’s 500, or S&P 500, is a stock market index that was created in 1957 to measure the worth of 500 companies whose stocks are traded on the Nasdaq and the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE).
Financial information, investment credit ratings, and different equity indices are all available from Standard & Poor’s. An investment portfolio, such as a group of stocks, is called a market index and it is used to monitor the performance of a certain area of the financial market.
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