- Standard & Poor's Stock Index
- Standard & Poor's Stock Index ( S&P500)US performance index of a basket of 500 stocks that are considered to be widely held. Financial Services Glossary
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Standard & Poor's Stock Index
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Standard & Poor's 500 index — (S&P 500) A share index which consists of a representative sample of 500 of the most widely held US based common stocks, chosen by the S&P Index Committee for market size, liquidity, and sector. It is a market value weighted index each stock s… … Law dictionary
Standard & Poor's 500 Index - S&P 500 — An index of 500 stocks chosen for market size, liquidity and industry grouping, among other factors. The S P 500 is designed to be a leading indicator of U.S. equities and is meant to reflect the risk/return characteristics of the large cap… … Investment dictionary
Standard & Poor's — Infobox Company company name = Standard Poor s company company type = Division of The McGraw Hill Companies foundation = 1860, present corporation status in 1941 founder = location city = New York City location country = United States location =… … Wikipedia
Standard & Poor's Depositary Receipts — SPDRs are shares of a family of exchange traded funds (ETFs) traded in the United States and managed by State Street Global Advisors (SSgA). Informally, they are also known as Spyders or Spiders.The name is an acronym for the first member of the… … Wikipedia
stock index — noun index based on a statistical compilation of the share prices of a number of representative stocks • Syn: ↑stock market index • Hypernyms: ↑index, ↑index number, ↑indicant, ↑indicator • Instance Hyponyms: ↑ … Useful english dictionary
Standard & Poor’s — /ˌstændəd ən pυəz/ noun an American corporation which rates bonds according to the credit worthiness of the organisations issuing them. Abbreviation S&P COMMENT: Standard and Poor’s also issues several stock market indices: the Standard and… … Dictionary of banking and finance
stock index futures — Based on stock market indexes, including Standard and Poor s 500, Value Line, NYSE Composite, Nikkei 225, the Major Market Index, and the Over the Counter Index, these instruments are used by investors concerned with price changes in a large… … Financial and business terms
Standard and Poor's 500 Stock Index — S&P 500 The widest general market index of stocks produced by the US credit rating agency Standard and Poor; it is made up of 425 shares in US industrial companies and 75 stocks in railway and public utility corporations … Big dictionary of business and management
Index Fund — A type of mutual fund with a portfolio constructed to match or track the components of a market index, such as the Standard Poor s 500 Index (S P 500). An index mutual fund is said to provide broad market exposure, low operating expenses and low… … Investment dictionary
Standard and Poor's — UK US noun (also Standard & Poor s 500 Stock Index™, ABBREVIATION S & P) FINANCE, STOCK MARKET ► a US ratings agency (= organization that calculates the risk that loans will not be paid back) that also publishes a share index (= list of the… … Financial and business terms
