View data of the S&P 500, an index of the stocks of 500 leading companies in the US economy, which provides a gauge of the U.S. equity market.

This dataset contains the monthly historical data of the S&P 500 index from January 1901 to May 2025, collected from Investing.com. The S&P 500 is a stock market index that tracks the performance of 500 large companies listed on stock exchanges in the United States.

It is widely used as a benchmark for the U.S. equity market, representing over 80% of the total market capitalization. This dataset is suitable for:

• Time-series forecasting
• Economic event impact analysis (e.g., wars, recessions, pandemics)
• Financial visualizations in Tableau or Power BI
• Quantitative finance and portfolio management research

Column Descriptions

Potential Use Cases:

• Visualizing market impact of wars, financial crises, and pandemics
• Analyzing long-term trends in the U.S. equity market
• Forecasting future index levels using machine learning
• Annotating economic history alongside market movements

Citation:

Data source: Investing.com

Prices for United States Stock Market Index (US500) including live quotes, historical charts and news. United States Stock Market Index (US500) was last updated by Trading Economics this August 31 of 2025.

The S&P 500, an index of 500 publicly traded companies in the United States, closed at ******** points on the last trading day of December 2024. What is the S&P 500? The S&P 500 is a stock market index that tracks the evolution of 500 companies. In contrast to the Dow Jones Industrial Index, which measures the performance of thirty large U.S. companies, the S&P 500 shows the sentiments in the broader market. Publicly traded companies Companies on the S&P 500 are publicly traded, meaning that anyone can invest in them. A large share of adults in the United States invest in the stock market, though many of these are through a retirement account or mutual fund. While most people make a modest return, the most successful investors have made billions of U.S. dollars through investing.

United States - S&P 500 was 6460.26000 Index in August of 2025, according to the United States Federal Reserve. Historically, United States - S&P 500 reached a record high of 6501.86000 in August of 2025 and a record low of 676.53000 in March of 2009. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for United States - S&P 500 - last updated from the United States Federal Reserve on September of 2025.

Graph and download economic data for CBOE S&P 500 3-Month Volatility Index (VXVCLS) from 2007-12-04 to 2025-08-28 about VIX, volatility, stock market, 3-month, and USA.

List of companies in the S&P 500 (Standard and Poor's 500). The S&P 500 is a free-float, capitalization-weighted index of the top 500 publicly listed stocks in the US (top 500 by market cap). The ...

Between March 4 and March 11, 2020, the S&P 500 index declined by ** percent, descending into a bear market. On March 12, 2020, the S&P 500 plunged *** percent, its steepest one-day fall since 1987. The index began to recover at the start of April and reached a peak in December 2021. As of December 29, 2024, the value of the S&P 500 stood at ******** points. Coronavirus sparks stock market chaos Stock markets plunged in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, with investors fearing its spread would destroy economic growth. Buoyed by figures that suggested cases were leveling off in China, investors were initially optimistic about the virus being contained. However, confidence in the market started to subside as the number of cases increased worldwide. Investors were deterred from buying stocks, and this was reflected in the markets – the values of the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the Nasdaq Composite also dived during the height of the crisis. What is a bear market? A bear market occurs when the value of a stock market suffers a prolonged decline of more than 20 percent over a period of at least 2 months. The COVID-19 pandemic caused severe concern and sent stock markets on a steep downward spiral. The S&P 500 achieved a record closing high of ***** on February 19, 2020. However, just over 3 weeks later, the market closed on *****, which represented a decline of around ** percent in only 16 sessions.

The dataset consists of companies listed in the S&P500, stock market index that measures the stock performance of 500 large companies listed on stock exchanges in the United State.

The S&P 500 stock market index, maintained by S&P Dow Jones Indices, comprises 505 common stocks issued by 500 large-cap companies and traded on American stock exchanges (including the 30 companies that compose the Dow Jones Industrial Average)

The S&P500 or SPX is the most commonly followed equity index, it covers about 80 percent of the American equity market by capitalization.

The index constituents and the constituent weights are updated regularly using rules published by S&P Dow Jones Indices. Although called the S&P 500, the index contains 505 stocks

As of August 2020, the S&P 500 index had lost ** percent of its value due to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the Great Crash, which began with Black Tuesday, remains the most significant loss in value in its history. That market crash lasted for 300 months and wiped ** percent off the index value.

Stock Market Tweets Data

  Overview

This dataset is the same as the Stock Market Tweets Data on IEEE by Bruno Taborda.

  Data Description

This dataset contains 943,672 tweets collected between April 9 and July 16, 2020, using the S&P 500 tag (#SPX500), the references to the top 25 companies in the S&P 500 index, and the Bloomberg tag (#stocks).

  Dataset Structure

created_at: The exact time this tweet was posted. text: The text of the tweet, providing… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/StephanAkkerman/stock-market-tweets-data.

As of April 10, 2025, tech giants Apple, Microsoft, Nvidia, Alphabet (Google), and Amazon dominated the S&P 500 index and were among only eight companies with a market capitalization exceeding *** ******** U.S. dollars in the U.S.

By the end of January 2025, the leading stock index in Israel (TA-125) reached just over 2500 points. During the observed period, the American stock index S&P 500 reached about 6040 points. Since the beginning of the Israel-Hamas war in October 2023 until January 2025, the Israeli index has grown by nearly ** percent. In comparison, the S&P 500 index grew by ** percent over the same period.

Enterprise value to earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EV/EBITDA) is a key measurement ratio used as a metric of valuing whether a company is under or overvalued as compared to a historical industry average. The S&P 500 (Standard & Poor’s) is an index of the 500 largest U.S. publicly traded companies by market capitalization. In 2023, the consumer staples sector displayed the highest EV/EBITDA multiple with *****.