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market weight

 
 
adjective STOCK MARKET

Definition

used for talking about the value of a particular type of shares in relation to others on a particular stock market: Financial stocks account for about 60% of the market weight of Hong Kong's benchmark index. → See also equal weight, overweight, underweight
(Definition of market weight adjective from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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