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• WILSHIRE 5000 INDEX
  
  The Wilshire 5000 is a market capitalization-weighted index of more than 7,000 stocks, prepared by Wilshire Associates, Inc., of Santa Monica, California. It is the broadest US stock market index, tracking all the stocks traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), the American Stock Exchange (AMEX), and the Nasdaq Stock Market (Nasdaq). There's a difference between the index's name (the 5000) and the number of stocks it tracks because additional stocks are being offered for trading all the time.
  
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