Winnsboro Facts Quick facts about the Winnsboro area Airport: Fairfield County Airport is located four miles south of Winnsboro on S.C. 269, offering one paved 5,000 foot runway and parallel taxiway, jet and 100 low-lead fuel, terminal building, t-hangars, rental cars, seven rental airplanes and flight instruction.
A stock market, equity market or share market is the aggregation of buyers and sellers (a loose network of economic transactions, not a physical facility or discrete entity) of stocks (also called shares), which represent ownership claims on businesses; these may include securities listed on a public stock exchange as well as those only traded privately.
Notice the large dot-com spike on the NASDAQ, a result of the large number of technology companies on that index. A stock index or stock market index is a measurement of the value of a section of the stock market. It is computed from the prices of selected stocks (typically a weighted average). It is a tool used by investors and financial managers to describe the market, and to compare the return on specific investments. An index is a mathematical construct, so it may not be invested in directly.