S&P 500

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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The S&P 500 entered the final half-hour of trading on pace for its biggest comeback since April.

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The S&P 500 finished the day down 0.1%.

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Unlike the S&P 500, it held on to mark its biggest reversal from an intraday low since April 30, according to Dow Jones Market Data.

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This placid trading ultimately sent the three-month realized volatility for the S&P 500 to its lowest level since January 2020 last week, according to FactSet data and MarketWatch calculations.

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Call options on the S&P 500 will deliver a payoff if the index rises above a predetermined level before a given time, which is known as the expiration date.

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