Nasdaq 100

The Nasdaq 100 is an index of the hundred largest non-financial companies listed on Nasdaq, weighted by market value and dominated by technology. It falls harder than the S&P 500 on a hawkish Fed night because growth companies are priced on cash that arrives a decade away. QQQ tracks it, and it sits in the counts column of the US market map.

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