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S&P

S&P Definition

Standard & Poor's (S&P) is a United States-based financial services company, which is a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies that publishes financial research and analysis on stocks and bonds. It is well known for the stock market indexes, the US-based S&P 500, the Australian S&P/ASX 200, the Canadian S&P/TSX, the Italian S&P/MIB and India's S&P CNX Nifty.


Additional meaning of S&P:

Standard & Poor's publishes a large number of stock market indices, covering every region of the world, market capitalization level, and type of investment (e.g. indices for REITs and preferred stocks)

These indices include:

  • S&P 500 -- value weighted index of the prices of 500 large-cap common stocks actively traded in the United States.
  • S&P 400 MidCap Index
  • S&P 600 SmallCap Index








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