Market cap categories (mega/large/mid/small)

Market cap categories group US companies by size: mega above $200 billion, large $10 to $200 billion, mid $2 to $10 billion, small $300 million to $2 billion. Size decides which index holds a company, therefore which passive funds must buy it, and smaller caps react hardest to the Fed.

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  • US ETFA US ETF is an exchange-traded fund on a US exchange that holds a basket, usually an index, and trades all day like…
  • Index ETFAn index ETF holds every stock in a published index at the index weights, with no view and a small fee. It buys in the…
  • Market capitalizationMarket capitalization is share price times shares outstanding, the market's price for the whole company. Index weights…
  • Index rebalancingIndex rebalancing is when an index changes members or weights and every fund tracking it must trade the difference…
  • US TreasuryThe US Treasury is the government's borrower and the oldest name on the US market map: it issues bonds to cover the…
  • Federal ReserveThe Federal Reserve is the US central bank, built in 1913 after the 1907 bank runs were stopped by one banker. It sets…

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