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S&P 500
- 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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Major US indexes were all up when the market closed on Friday - the S&P 500 and Nasdaq had both risen 1.5% while the Dow Jones Industrial Average increased 1.4%.
The S&P 500 index of the largest firms listed in the US was hit particularly hard - and even though the White House has reversed course on some of the highest tariffs, it hasn't fully recovered since.
On Tuesday, US stocks made gains, with the S&P 500 ending Tuesday's session up 2.5% and the Nasdaq rose 2.7%.
The S&P 500, which tracks 500 of the biggest US companies, was down roughly 3% in early afternoon trading on Monday.
Over the past six months, ETFs of homebuilder stocks are down 25 to 30 percent, compared with 10 percent for the S&P 500.
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