S&P 500

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1. An index of stock prices issued by Standard and Poor, a major credit-rating agency, and indicating price movements of the shares of five hundred major companies traded on the New York Stock Exchange. (Compare Dow Jones Industrial Average .)

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S&P 500

The S&P 500 fell 90.66 points, or 1.21%, to 7408.30, while the Nasdaq Composite dropped 553.21 points, or 2.15%, to 25137.69.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

Here is a performance summary for the S&P 500 A&D industry group, the three ETFs and the full S&P 500 through Wednesday:

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026

A popular quality ETF is beating the S&P 500 Momentum Index by 6 percentage points this month.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

When the S&P 500 surges, so does the estimated inflation arising from investor fees for financial advice.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 2026

In the five years since he had started, the S&P 500, against which he was measured, was down 6.84 percent.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis