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Nasdaq is a global marketplace where you may buy and sell stocks. It was the first electronic exchange in the world. The Nasdaq is home to the majority of the world’s technology heavyweights, including Apple and Facebook.
The Nasdaq Composite Index is a market capitalization-weighted index comprising approximately 2,500 Nasdaq common stocks. American depositary receipts, ordinary stocks, real estate investment trusts (REITs), and tracking stocks, as well as limited partnership interests, are among the instruments included in the index.
The Nasdaq 100 has a significantly smaller scope than the Nasdaq Composite: it follows the 100 largest companies on the Nasdaq stock exchange by market capitalization, excluding banking sector firms. The Nasdaq 100 index tracks companies that account for more than 90% of the Nasdaq Composite index’s market capitalization.
The Standard & Poor’s 500 Index, also known as the S&P 500, is a market capitalization-weighted index of the 500 largest publicly traded firms in the United States. The index is largely recognized as the most accurate indicator of large-cap US stocks. The S&P is a float-weighted index, which means that the market capitalizations of companies are adjusted for the amount of shares available for public trading.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA), often known as the Dow 30, is a stock market index that monitors 30 big, publicly-owned blue-chip businesses that trade on the NASDAQ and the New York Stock Exchange. The Dow Jones was formed in 1896 and is named after Charles Dow, a business colleague of Edward Jones.
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