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Sheetal Sush
Stock markets are very essential to a financial system. These are places where shares of the listed companies are being traded. The performance of a stock market is measured with the help of market indices or stock indices. A good stock index sums up the overall performance of the market on a daily basis in a single figure. It captures the movement of the well diversified and highly liquid stocks. In a broader sense, market indices resemble the performance of the economy also. Therefore, the main market indices can be said to be the pulse rate of the economy.