This is the stock market for the United States; it's the Standard & Poor Composite.

这是美国的股票市场,这是标准普尔综合指数

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The S&P 500 is 500 companies, who are major companies, so these tend to be mature companies and they tend to be in the dividend-paying stage.

标准普尔500指数包括500家大公司,这些一般都是成熟期的公司,他们一般都处于需要支付股利的阶段

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In 1957, they reformulated it and they called it the Standard & Poor 500, but I'm using their long theories, back to 1871, so I can't call it the 500; I'm calling it the Composite.

在1957年,他们将其重建,并命名为标准普尔500指数,但这里用到的是1871年发布的理论,所以不能称之为500,我称之为综合指数

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