Choices you make regarding what you do with your money are influenced by a whole host of factors, many of which are both out of your control and largely unknown to the average person. Equity indexes are a prime example of this, with a wide-ranging impact compounded by a general lack of understanding.

So to clear things up and bring you into the loop on what this is and why it’s relevant to you, here’s the lowdown on the main equity index talking points.

What Exactly is an Equity Index?

In short, an equity index is a group of stocks that are monitored together in order to measure how well a particular market or sector is performing at any given time.

In other words, it’s a scorecard for industries or even entire economies that shows whether they’re winning or losing, at least in the sho

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