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Dazzle your friends and perplex your neighbors: 'Cuz for the next two days... the S&P 500 index will only have 498 members in it.
That's because Fannie Mae [FNM
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That not only leaves MGIC [MTG
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But wait... there's more..!
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Paul Hickey of Bespoke Investment Group wrote me to say:
"The rationale behind taking FNM and FRE out is that their market caps were below the $5bln threshold required for inclusion. However, as of Tuesday there were only 381 stocks in the S&P 500 with market caps of more than $5 bln, and in the US there aren’t even 500 stocks with a market cap of more than $5 bln!"
Furthermore, CNBC colleague Juan Aruego discovered another index anomoly due to the Fannie-Freddie eviction. Their ousting has actually caused the Q3 consensus earnings estimate to go negative, since both companies were on-tap to post a sharp rebound from their disastrous year-ago results.
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