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United States
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W5000
The Wilshire 5000 Total Market Index, often called the 'total stock market index', aims to measure the performance of all publicly traded US-headquartered equity securities with readily available price data. It is the broadest index for the US equity market.
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Several thousand US-headquartered companies (the actual count has varied from 3,000 to over 7,000 historically). Designed to capture the entire investable US equity market.
Regular session: 09:30–16:00 ET (Mon–Fri).
Launched in 1974 by Wilshire Associates. Full market-cap weight. The most comprehensive measure of the entire US stock market.
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