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[in-deks] / ˈɪn dɛks /




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The survey’s sentiment index declined to 51, from 55.2 in July, according to results published Friday.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 2026

On Aug. 4, the index touched its lowest level of 2026, according to Bloomberg data.

From MarketWatch Aug. 13, 2026

The index more than doubled its value since the start of the year to rise above 9,000 points in mid-June, before plunging to 5,500 within a few weeks.

From BBC Aug. 13, 2026

The index fell as low as 14.39 on Wednesday, FactSet data showed.

From MarketWatch Aug. 13, 2026

He lifts his right hand, his index finger curling into the shape of a hook.

From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day

Broad approach: An active fund holding a whopping 800 stocks is beating major indexes.

From MarketWatch Aug. 14, 2026

These in turn make their way into the most widely collected earnings data for the S&P 500 and other indexes.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 2026

The Paris, Frankfurt, Madrid and Milan exchanges all hit records in August, in line with recent all-time highs for Wall Street's key indexes.

From Barron's Aug. 14, 2026

That is the term structures of the VIX futures and of the Cboe volatility indexes are sloping strongly upwards.

From MarketWatch Aug. 14, 2026

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

From "Kindred" by Octavia Butler

“When you have very, very top-heavy indices, you still need the companies at the top to at least keep pace.”

From MarketWatch Jul. 19, 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

A massive tech selloff roiled Korean stock indices over the past month, as the severity of wartime shortages became clear.

From Slate Jul. 2, 2026

While this enthusiasm repeatedly pushed indices to unprecedented highs, the sustained 90-day rally left stock prices looking incredibly inflated.

From BBC Jun. 23, 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

It now hits far fewer taxpayers as the threshold matches the federal exemption amount, which is $15 million for 2026 and is indexed for inflation.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 8, 2026

"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

Three hundred years later, Gray’s Anatomy by Henry Gray reinforced the impression that the body had finally been catalogued, indexed and neatly organized – a system mapped and fully explained.

From Science Daily Jun. 21, 2026

The cap is $5,000, indexed for inflation, excluding the government seed money and any company match.

From Barron's May 28, 2026

Before it could go to the Marshall Library, everything had to be indexed.

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

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

Booth started up DFA in his Brooklyn Heights, N.Y., brownstone in 1981, after forays in indexing at Wells Fargo and A.G.

From Barron's Jun. 18, 2026

Thanks to the visionary brilliance of Vanguard founder Jack Bogle and decades of strong returns, indexing is eating more and more of the market each year.

From Slate Jun. 5, 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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