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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Example Sentences

That’s a massive surge that gives the S&P 500 a great deal of breathing room from correction territory heading into the unofficial start of the first quarter earnings season on April 14.

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

For much of the past three years, stock-market bulls have been talking about a more broad-based rally as something that could help to keep pushing major indexes like the S&P 500 higher.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 3, 2026

U.S. stocks narrowly avoided a technical correction, with the S&P 500 rebounding over 3.77% after nearing a 9.1% pullback.

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

At this point, investors are hoping for the best and trying to ignore all the ongoing uncertainties about the war even as the S&P 500 wrapped up its worst quarter since 2022 on Tuesday.

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

Over the same period, the S&P 500 returned just a bit more than 2 percent.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis