index
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Many were likewise concerned that some index rules had changed to accommodate companies like SpaceX, which have big valuations but low “floats” of public shares.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
The Swiss investment bank’s “Turbu-lens,” an index which is designed to forecast market fragility, was at a reading of 1 on Aug. 19, the maximum rate it’s reached since late 2024.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026
Meanwhile, the expectations index — based on short-term outlook for income, business and labor market conditions — fell by 5.8 points to 68.2.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
The index hit its 20-year peak P/E of 24.31 in September 2020.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026
It took a long time to look up Sawfallen Street in the index, flip to the proper page, and memorize directions without so much as touching her finger to the page.
From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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Stock traders were even less moved by the news, with the major indexes of the biggest companies listed in the US, Europe, and Asia barely shifting.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
This has been a tailwind for indexes that passively replicate a broader swath of the market.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
Sliding shares of chip makers and signs of intensifying geopolitical tension weighed on major stock indexes Monday, delivering a muted start to a jam-packed week for markets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
U.S. economic data due Friday include the flash manufacturing and services purchasing managers’ indexes for August, released at 9:45 a.m.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 21, 2026
I found some books on experimental psychology and leafed through them slowly, then checked the indexes and bibliographies.
From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok
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That’s according to Citi research analyst David Chew, who in a note published Monday analyses current investor positioning in the main U.S. equity indices.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 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
Activities or illnesses whose safety indices are greater than 6 should be considered quite safe, being equivalent to less than one chance in a million per year.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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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
SpaceX is also going into the Nasdaq-100 in a few days, which will generate billions of dollars in passive buying by funds indexed to the tech-heavy index.
From Barron's ● Jun. 14, 2026
Before it could go to the Marshall Library, everything had to be indexed.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
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One such strategy, direct indexing, involves buying individual securities that track the performance of an index while also generating losses that can be used to reduce capital-gains taxes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
Among them: why indexing beats even the most talented stock pickers; the biggest mistake individual investors are making right now, and what a young investor can learn from a lifetime spent studying markets.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 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
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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