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The Dow Hits 50,000!
The Dow Jones Industrial Average® (DJIA) just closed above 50,000 for the first time in its near 130-year history. The Dow®’s latest milestone marks the third time this decade that the U.S. equity barometer first surpassed a 10,000 increment and—unsurprisingly, perhaps, given successive milestones require smaller gains to be achieved—the latest milestone came in record…
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Quarterly Changes May Not Be Constant
The S&P 500®, commonly referred to as The 500™, underwent its latest quarterly update—commonly known as rebalances—at the end of last week. S&P 500 rebalances take place after the close of the third Friday of the quarter-ending month and can involve constituent changes (additions and deletions) as well as updates to company characteristics, such as…
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Celebrating 30 Years of the S&P Composite 1500
Launched on May 18, 1995, the S&P Composite 1500® (the S&P 1500™) celebrated its 30th anniversary yesterday. Designed for investors looking to replicate the performance of the U.S. equity market or to benchmark against a representative universe of tradeable stocks, the S&P 1500 combines the S&P 500®, S&P MidCap 400® and S&P SmallCap 600® indices…
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Explaining Changes to Select Sector Indices
Launched in the late 1990s, the Select Sector® indices measure the performance of S&P 500® sectors; each S&P 500 company is assigned to one of the 11 Select Sector indices, based on the Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS®) framework. The indices serve as the basis for an ecosystem of financial products, which in turn allow…
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Tracking the Sustainable Core: 5 Years of S&P 500 ESG
What does the S&P 500 ESG Index ecosystem look like today and how is that benefiting market participants? S&P DJI’s Hamish Preston and DWS’ David Stack explore key takeaways from the first five years of the S&P 500 ESG Index.
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A Long-Term Look at S&P 500 Equal Weight Index
How have S&P 500 Equal Weight Index’s exposures informed its performance over time? S&P DJI’s Hamish Preston and Invesco’s Nick Kalivas look under the hood at the features influencing S&P 500 EWI’s risk/return and explore what its expanding ecosystem, including sectors and futures could mean for its range of potential applications moving forward.
S&P 500 Highs Keep Coming
The S&P 500® closed at another record high today, marking the ninth all-time high closing price level so far this year. Although all-time highs are not unprecedented—2024 is the 41st year since 1957 to host a new high—a few observations stand out when looking at this year’s records. First, January 2024 saw the end of…
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The Relative Value of Insights
Many investors use the start of the year to make predictions for the upcoming year and to think about ways to express views on these themes. This undertaking is not guaranteed to add value: predicting the future is incredibly difficult and success requires correctly predicting both the drivers of future performance and the upcoming impact…
Why Do U.S. Mid-Cap Equities Matter?
Take a deep dive into the S&P MidCap 400 as S&P DJI’s Hamish Preston and Sherifa Issifu explore what makes the S&P 400 relevant globally and the distinctive sector and risk/return characteristics of this slice of the U.S. equity market.
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Lessons from 20 Years of Equal Weight
How has equal-weight compared with cap-weight historically? S&P DJI’s Hamish Preston and Invesco’s Nick Kalivas explore how differences in index construction have influenced index performance, sector and factor composition, and results in the latest SPIVA Scorecards.