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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Business
Andrew Michael

How to invest in the S&P 500

The Standard & Poor’s 500 – or S&P 500 – is a stock market index that tracks the performance of 500 of the largest US public companies by market capitalisation. Here’s everthing you need to know.

Helped in part by the performance of technology companies such as Apple and Microsoft, US stocks and shares have provided double-digit returns to investors over the last decade.

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