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But in the past 15 years only 10% of U.S. mutual-fund managers tracking the S&P 500 have beaten the index, according to S&P Global.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Active managers have the option of just mirroring the index and making themselves irrelevant or picking stocks with smaller index weights not lifted as much by the gusher of savings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Earnings barely grew at all in 2025 and 2024 as the strongest companies in the index were offset by weaker players.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Other data include Case-Shiller house-price data for June, new home sales for July and the Conference Board consumer confidence index for August on Tuesday.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Which, once she picks a final direction, she returns to the pocket, then licks her index finger and puts it just above her head.
From "Clean Getaway" by Nic Stone
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The increase in yields weighed on Wall Street, where all three main indexes fell as tech firms -- which rely on debt to fund their huge investments -- dropped.
From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 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
The current new orders and shipments indexes both declined but remained above their long-run nonrecession averages, the report said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
A global bond-market rout was starting to put some pressure on stocks on Tuesday, as major U.S. indexes headed for a third-straight session in the red.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 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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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
Bacup has the highest levels of deprivation in the Rossendale Valley according to English indices of deprivation 2025, external statistics.
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026
These indices instead base a stock’s index weight on fundamental criteria such as book value, revenue, cash flow, dividends and buybacks — therefore weighting stocks according to their economic significance rather than investor sentiment.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 15, 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
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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
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
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
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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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
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
If that’s too ambitious, they could at least raise or eliminate the cap on the capital-gains exemption on the sale of a primary residence, plus indexing it for inflation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 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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