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[in-deks] / ˈɪn dɛks /




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Looking ahead to 2027, the company expects adjusted Ebitda of more than $4 billion for the full year based on new contracts it has signed and index price forecasts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

"We were finding a mismatch between the temperature of the tropical Pacific and the impacts," said Becker about the old index.

From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026

The measurements placed the city's air quality in the second-worst category of a regional air quality index.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026

Prices for both metals ended higher Thursday, even after producer-price index data also showed a bigger-than-expected rise.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 17, 2026

Steve had his thumb and index finger in a big circle.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

All three main indexes on Wall Street ended sharply lower, with the Nasdaq more than two percent down, dragged by giants including Microsoft, Nvidia, AMD and Amazon.

From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026

However, if technology and the AI-related theme outperformed and drove the separation between the indexes, it’s reasonable to expect those same sectors to lead the S&P 500’s underperformance.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 18, 2026

The company could be left out of major indexes.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

Purchasing managers’ indexes for the U.S. and Europe will offer insights into business sentiment and a further clue on the likely timing and pace of future interest-rate rises.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

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

From "Kindred" by Octavia Butler

Major indices rose after the Labor Department said the U.S. added just 29,000 jobs in September, well short of expectations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

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

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

From Barron's ● Sep. 14, 2026

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

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

“Rates were going up, but they indexed really close to inflation.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026

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

After stumbling, the Nasdaq accelerated, with its gain in Bespoke’s indexed series reaching 592.5% in March 2000.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 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

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

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

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

“The problem with indexing is that a true market portfolio doesn’t exist,” Booth says.

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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