stock indices
Exchange performance trackers
Stock indices are statistical measures tracking the performance of a group of stocks, used to gauge overall market health or specific sectors.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average tracks thirty major U.S. companies; the S&P 500 covers five hundred.
When people ask how "the market" did today, they usually mean how a major index performed.
Singular: stock index.
- DowStock market index
- S&PMajor stock index
- NASDAQElectronic securities exchange
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