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, means stock of a certain company which has leading status in their business field, including scope, market share, market capitalization, turnover and profit. Sometimes, leading stock may lead or influence prices of other stocks in the same business field to

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or drop. However, leading stock is not immutable; its status may last for a period of time before being replaced by others with more leading power.

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