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Comment by rileymat2

14 hours ago

What is it a benchmark for? All investable public stocks or the economy writ large?

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ywvcbk  12 hours ago

Neither? What makes you think it was supposed to be a benchmark for either.

Amongst other thing weights are based on the value of shares that are traded publicly, not market cap.

tristanj  12 hours ago

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