855 - Clemson University

The market is often identified as all NYSE stocks. At the end of 1996, there were 2777 stocks traded on the NYSE. Sometimes well reference the market by the S&P 500, which is an index of the 500 largest stocks, mostly NYSE. There were 8763 stocks reported by CRSP trading on the NYSE, AMEX, and NASDAQ at the end of 1996. ................
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