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What is S&P 500

Economic Impact and Recovery Following a Global Health Crisis
It is an index consisting of the 500 greatest American companies and covering approximately 75 percent of the equity share market.
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The Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic on International Stock Exchanges
Hakan Altin (University of Aksaray, Turkey, Turkey)
Copyright: © 2022 |Pages: 38
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-6900-9.ch005
Abstract
It is possible to define the concept of risk in various ways. Risk is the deviation possibility of the realized value from the expected value. It has two components, nonsystematic risk and systematic risk. Despite this, pandemics are risk factors that cannot be anticipated. They have deeply affected economies and financial markets under every condition. The importance of the detection of the COVID-19 pandemic comes from the selection of monetary and fiscal policies to be applied by governments during the rehabilitation process of economies. Equity share markets provide important information regarding the future of a company or economy. The reason for this is that the current value of an equity share is dependent on the deducted calculation of the cash flows of the equity share to be provided in the future. The actual price of the equity share is determined according to supply and demand under market conditions.
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The Dynamic Connectedness Between Global Macroeconomic Risks and International Stock Markets: A Diagonal BEKK Approach
A market capitalization-weighted index of the largest 500 publicly traded companies in the United States. It is one of the best measures of the US stock market performance and is used as a benchmark or a barometer by investors. S&P stands for Standard and Poor's, the founders' names.
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