Indices: What Nifty 50 and Sensex Actually Measure
The number on the news is not the market's price. Here is what an index is, how it is built, and what it does and does not tell you.
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In this lesson
- Nifty 50
- Sensex
- How the number is built: free-float market capitalisation
- Rebalancing
- Other indices worth knowing
- Why indices matter to you practically
- Two common misunderstandings
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