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The U.S. stock market consists of exchanges where stocks can be bought and sold.

Examples of exchanges are the NYSE (New York Stock Exchange), NASDAQ (National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation System) and AMEX (American Stock Exchange).

NYSE is the largest stock market in the world, based on capitalization, with an annual turnover of approximately U.S. 10 trillion U.S. dollars (about $ 40 U.S. million per day). It consists of companies listed about 3,800 U.S..

NYSE Euronext, the holding company resulting from the combination of NYSE Group, Inc. and Euronext NV brings together six cash equities exchanges in five countries and six derivatives exchanges.

NASDAQ is another exchange that includes about 3,700 people, primarily in the biotechnology and technology, with a turnover of approximately U.S. 27 billion U.S. dollars by day.

AMEX is another change which consists of about 1,200 titles.

There are over 10,000 additional titles available through trade U.S. national shares.

There are many different markets indexes in U.S. markets. The main indices used to measure the performance of markets are the Dow Jones Industrial Average or DJIA, which includes 30 major U.S. corporations.

There are many more indexes, such as Standard and Poor's 500 (S & P 5000), which measures 500 companies that are leaders in their respective industries.

Other indexes are the NASDAQ Composite Index, AMEX Composite and the Russell 2000 (consisting of 2000 shares), etc.

When we refer to the broader market, which are mostly referred to the DOW, Nasdaq and S & P 500.

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