Thread: Why is the S&P 500 considered "The Market"?
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Old 07-01-2007, 05:31 PM
Jeff W Jeff W is offline
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Default Re: Why is the S&P 500 considered \"The Market\"?
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S&P 500 has a 99% correlation with the U.S. Stock Market since 1972(As far back as I have S&P 500 data).

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How is the "U.S. Stock Market" defined here and why isn't that used as the benchmark?

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My data on U.S. Stock Market represents >99% of the market capitalization.
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