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A corporation can adjust its stock price by a stock split, substituting a quantity of shares at one price for a different number of shares at an adjusted price where the value of shares x price remains equivalent. (For example, 500 shares at $32 may become 1000 shares at $16.) Many major firms like to keep their price in the $25 to $75 price range.
In finance, market data is price and other related data for a financial instrument reported by a trading venue such as a stock exchange. Market data allows traders and investors to know the latest price and see historical trends for instruments such as equities, fixed-income products, derivatives, and currencies. [1]
The S&P 500 is a stock market index maintained by S&P Dow Jones Indices. It comprises 503 common stocks which are issued by 500 large-cap companies traded on the American stock exchanges (including the 30 companies that compose the Dow Jones Industrial Average). The index includes about 80 percent of the American market by capitalization.
The price for a barrel of benchmark U.S. crude went from $72.53 on Friday to nearly $75 before the U.S. stock market opened Monday to briefly falling back toward $72.
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The guests on Yahoo Finance's Stocks in Translation podcast offered their advice for investors in 2025, favoring small caps and crypto.
Year World market cap Number of listed companies Millions of US$ % of GDP; 1975 1,149,245 27.2 14,577 1980 2,525,736 29.6 17,273 1985 4,684,978 47.0 20,555
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