Stock Indices

Every day we hear that the Dow was up (or down) or that the S&P was such and such. What does it mean? What is the Dow? What is the S&P?

In order to gauge how the stock market did on a particular day or a longer period, we use a market index to measure performance. Market indices take many flavors. … [ Read more ]

John Adams

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