The Yomiuri Shimbun is introducing a new stock index in March and aims to make it a benchmark for the Japanese market, the company announced Thursday.
It will be called the Yomiuri 333 and have 333 constituent companies.
The newspaper publisher said a distinguishing characteristic of the new index is that it will equally weight each stock in calculating the value.
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