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[in-deks] / ˈɪn dɛks /




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There are also Treasury inflation-protected securities, which are bonds whose principal is adjusted to reflect the rate of consumer-price index inflation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

If that trade shifts, the index is likely to take notice, especially if rates don’t come down and other sectors can’t rally to offset weakness in the S&P 500.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026

After closing at record levels on Tuesday, the S&P 500 index and Nasdaq Composite both fell 0.2%.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

As the gap between the stock market’s winners and losers has widened over the past few months, more individual names have been trading at odds with the broader index.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026

Just to test it, Jack barely brushed the tip of his index finger against the hilt, then yanked his hand back.

From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley

After all three main indexes on Wall Street dropped -- with the S&P 500 and Nasdaq off records -- Asia followed suit.

From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026

The “Magnificent Seven”—the mega-cap companies Nvidia, Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta and Tesla—continued to strengthen in premarket trade after powering indexes to new records.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

European stock indexes rose in opening trade, as the continent catched up with gains in U.S. stocks Monday.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

As long as the AI trade continues, that should be enough to drive indexes like the S&P 500 and Nasdaq higher.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026

We checked indexes and even leafed through some of the books page by page to be sure.

From "Kindred" by Octavia Butler

Forest fires have blanketed parts of the country as well as neighbouring Malaysia and Singapore in toxic smog, pushing air quality indices into "unhealthy" territory.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

“European indices are more vulnerable to changes in energy prices and the global economic outlook, as they are more cyclical than their international peers,” Swissquote’s Ipek Ozkardeskaya wrote in a research note.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

The Barclays team found that over the past week, during which the S&P 500 hit a fresh record high, “skews across global indices collapsed as investors chased the rally and demand for protection faded.”

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026

Temperatures climbed into the 90s with heat indices exceeding 100 degrees, forcing organizers to scale back outdoor programming, expand cooling stations and urge visitors to take frequent breaks.

From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2026

How can a change in a handful of economic and social indices cause murder rates to fall by two-thirds in five years?

From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell

"We give site owners clear controls to decide whether pages can be crawled or indexed, and we always respect those directives."

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026

Vanguard will manage the indexed equity and indexed and active fixed-income sleeves in the new all-markets fund.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026

That amount is indexed to increase with inflation starting next year, according to the IRS.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 2, 2026

The amount of money directly indexed to the Russell is measured in billions, not the trillions indexed to the S&P 500.

From Barron's ● Jun. 29, 2026

The remaining papers had to be “grouped, described, labeled, indexed, and reverently dispatched to their sealed tombs in the government vaults.”

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield

The index fund is a huge improvement over much of what it replaced; Vanguard estimates indexing has saved private investors $570 billion in fund management fees just since 2000.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026

As the search indexing of the chat logs is no longer occurring, it is likely Anthropic used available tools to quickly block the chat log links from search results.

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026

One such strategy, direct indexing, involves buying individual securities that track the performance of an index—such as the S&P 500 or the Schwab 1000—while also generating losses that can be used to reduce capital-gains taxes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

Also until 2020, for retail investors to buy DFA’s funds they had to go through fee-charging advisors, which would seem to violate the code of indexing.

From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026

By late 1966, Elizebeth and William were spending several hours a day indexing their library, at least when they were well enough.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield




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