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Treasury index which was down 2.24% for the month, he says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
That’s because the S&P 500 is a market-cap-weighted index and its performance disproportionately suffers when its largest stocks perform poorly.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026
The survey’s headline index fell to 46.3 in its preliminary October reading, versus 48.1 in September, according to data published Friday.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
Markets are focusing on data including the University of Michigan’s preliminary consumer sentiment index, UOB Global Economics & Markets Research says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
Just as Grandpa opened the book to the index page, the silence of the library was shattered by the deep voice of Rowdy.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
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After all three main indexes on Wall Street dropped -- with the S&P 500 and Nasdaq off records -- Asia followed suit.
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026
European stock indexes slid at open with technology and industrial stocks falling.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
The tech-stock performance is one key reason why indexes have continued their rise even in the midst of a global bond selloff that has driven Treasury yields to their highest level in two decades.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
Whether it be other equity indexes or even credit spreads — another barometer of investors’ risk appetite — America’s favorite index is becoming increasingly unmoored from these longstanding historical relationships, Garrett said.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026
We checked indexes and even leafed through some of the books page by page to be sure.
From "Kindred" by Octavia Butler
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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
The Barclays team found that over the past week, during which the S&P 500 hit a fresh record high, “skews across global indices collapsed as investors chased the rally and demand for protection faded.”
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 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
The Latin for indices and tokens is signa or indicia; the French is preuves.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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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
A simple task be-cause Brother Leon insisted that all kinds of cross- indexed lists be kept so that you could tell at a glance just where students stood.
From "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier
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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
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
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
But, he notes, the “average pop has gone down since then even though indexing has increased.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 14, 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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