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  2. List of S&P 500 companies - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. Stock - Wikipedia

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    A person who owns a percentage of the stock has the ownership of the corporation proportional to their share. The shares form a stock; the stock of a corporation is partitioned into shares, the total of which are stated at the time of business formation. Additional shares may subsequently be authorized by the existing shareholders and issued by ...

  4. Stock exchange - Wikipedia

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    The New York Stock Exchange in Lower Manhattan is the world's largest stock exchange per total market capitalization of its listed companies. [1]A stock exchange, securities exchange, or bourse is an exchange where stockbrokers and traders can buy and sell securities, such as shares of stock, bonds and other financial instruments.

  5. International Financial Reporting Standards - Wikipedia

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    Another study looked at the development of the stock market in Poland; it found positive effects associated with Poland joining the EU but no specific effect attributable to its adoption of IFRS. [47] Interestingly, member states maintain a large degree of independence in setting national accounting standards for companies that prefer to stay ...

  6. General Electric - Wikipedia

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    On June 26, 2018, the stock was removed from the index and replaced with Walgreens Boots Alliance. [172] In the years leading to its removal, GE was the worst performing stock in the Dow, falling more than 55 percent year on year and more than 25 percent year to date. [173] The company continued to lose value after being removed from the index ...

  7. HDFC Bank - Wikipedia

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    In July 2001, HDFC Bank's ADS listed on the New York Stock Exchange after an IPO. [ 21 ] In 2008, HDFC Bank acquired the Centurion Bank of Punjab (CBoP) for ₹ 9,510 crore (US$2.19 billion) in a share-swap deal, reportedly the largest acquisition in the Indian financial sector at the time.

  8. American Express - Wikipedia

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    Share of the American Express Company, 1865. In 1850, American Express was started as a freight forwarding company in Buffalo, New York. [14] It was founded as a joint-stock corporation by the merger of the cash-in-transit companies owned by Henry Wells (Wells & Company), William G. Fargo (Livingston, Fargo & Company), and John Warren Butterfield (Wells, Butterfield & Company, the successor ...

  9. List of chemical elements - Wikipedia

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    118 chemical elements have been identified and named officially by IUPAC.A chemical element, often simply called an element, is a type of atom which has a specific number of protons in its atomic nucleus (i.e., a specific atomic number, or Z).