There are thousands of companies traded on the world’s stock exchanges – 2,800 on the NYSE alone. Making sense of the constant data flow, the ebbs and tides of the stock prices and positions, is a challenge even for the most experienced investors. This is where the indexes come in. They aggregate smaller numbers of stocks, and distill the price movements into a single number. One of the most important of the indexes, covering most of the market’s largest companies, is the S&P 500.As the name indicates, there are some 500 companies in the S&P index, but together they hold …read more
Source:: Yahoo Finance
