composite

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The Dow industrials jumped 2.8%, the largest gain since last spring, while the S&P 500 and Nasdaq composite rose to their sixth straight day of gains.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026

Futures for the S&P 500 dropped 0.4%, while the Nasdaq composite fell 0.5% premarket, as traders looked set to pause a four-day run of gains for the indexes—their best such run since May last year.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 7, 2026

Since the end of February, the three major stock market indices — the Standard & Poor’s 500, the Dow Jones industrials and the Nasdaq composite — have fallen by a few percentage points.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

This makes it especially promising for sensing applications and advanced composite materials.

From Science Daily • Mar. 31, 2026

There might even be a sliding scale, with perfect numbers selling at a premium and prime numbers going for more than nonperfect composite numbers, etc.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos