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[in-deks] / ˈɪn dɛks /




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Futures for the index pointed to a limited recovery, jumping 0.8%.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 17, 2026

Pigmented Japanese rice, especially black and green rice, scored higher on the researchers' health-promotion index because of their distinctive lipid profiles.

From Science Daily Sep. 17, 2026

While the U.S. core consumer price index rose by 0.3% month-on-month in August, overall, the 12-month rate stands at 2.4%, down from 3.1% last year.

From MarketWatch Sep. 16, 2026

Futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average were flat, after the energy-sensitive index recorded its worst start to September since 2008.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 16, 2026

The index had the word, but rather than listing a page to turn to, it said in dark letters: Don't even think of such a thing!

From "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher" by Bruce Coville

But it did so again Monday and touched a new 19-year high on Tuesday, sending major stock indexes lower for the second straight session.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 15, 2026

After a selloff on Wall Street's three main indexes, Asia mostly retreated.

From Barron's Sep. 15, 2026

European indexes were also in the red at the open.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 15, 2026

Rising interest rates have taken their toll on the higher-quality bond indexes.

From MarketWatch Sep. 15, 2026

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

From "Kindred" by Octavia Butler

"Any change in the AI trade will have big ramifications for US indices," she warned.

From Barron's Sep. 14, 2026

Global capital markets have recorded sharp volatility recently, with pullbacks for major Chinese and global indices and rising implied volatility, Meng notes.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 21, 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

He's only in the door three seconds before he starts spouting some theory about spectral analysis and the refractive indices of protein substances, and he's carrying a big box full of books and papers.

From "Things Not Seen" by Andrew Clements

"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

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

He’s tried Claude Code before but prefers Cursor’s indexed codebase, which allows users to query a multi-file project in natural language and find relevant code.

From MarketWatch Jun. 19, 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

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

Lastly, investors should want to avoid the implementation costs associated with the indexing approach that many equal-weighted and quality-focused strategies tend to use.

From MarketWatch Jun. 23, 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

Instead she stayed put and kept indexing the collection, determined to preserve William’s place in history.

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




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