Articles tagged with $DJUSCR

The S&P 500 is a market-cap weighted stock index, which means that the largest companies have the largest influence in the direction of this benchmark index. There are no companies bigger than Apple, Inc. (AAPL), which closed on Thursday with a market cap of $2.1 trillion. So AAPL is obviously the largest holding in the S&P 500. It currently weighs in at nearly 6% of the entire S&P 500. What AAPL does has a big influence on the direction of U.S. equities. Therefore, it's probably a good idea to watch and see if AAPL can hang onto price support established by the June low:...keep reading

Last week, we saw Snap, Inc. (SNAP) rise to its highest level in two months, just before it released its awful Q2 earnings report. While the short-term strength was nice, SNAP remained very close to its 52-week relative low as Wall Street simply wasn't buying. After last week's dismal report, we now know why....keep reading