Published on 13 Apr 2024 on Motley Fool via Yahoo Finance
The S&P 500 is arguably the most important stock market index, and for good reason.
It tracks the 500 largest U.S.-based companies (with a few other criteria). Given that the U.S. has the largest economy and largest stock market in the world, it makes sense that the S&P 500 is often seen as the go-to benchmark.
Here are the three major milestones that the S&P just hit and some of the simplest ways of investing in large-cap stocks.