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A stock market index is a method of measuring a section of the stock market. Many indices are cited by news or financial services firms and are used to benchmark the performance of portfolios such as mutual funds. From Wikipedia under the
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Q. My understanding of the DOW or S&P500 index funds is that if GE represents say 1% of the S&P500, it will represent 1% of the value of the S&P500 index funds. Since many people invest in these index funds to represent the market, won't any company in the index be artificially inflated in price due to heightened demand? Another way to ask this is: Do companies that join an index experience a bump in share price & do companies that leave experience a drop within a short amount of time? Thanks! Asked by jdk470 - Thu Jul 26 17:36:15 2007 - - 3 Answers - 0 Comments A. "Another way to ask this is: Do companies that join an index experience a bump in share price & do companies that leave experience a drop within a short amount of tim" Yes, there's a well known "index-effect". There's even a bit of a game of trying to guess which companies will be added to the index. Companies are deleted from the index usually because of acquisition, or bankruptcy. Very rarely are they "just deleted", so a "deletion effect" is less common. Answered by Crocodilian - Thu Jul 26 17:48:06 2007 From Yahoo Answer Search: "stock index" |
