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[in-deks] / ˈɪn dɛks /




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At that point, they moved into the Growth index.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 7, 2026

So far in 2026, the performance gap across large-cap growth index ETFs from Invesco, iShares, State Street and Vanguard is staggering.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 7, 2026

Passive investors can choose between standard and equal-weight S&P 500 index funds.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 7, 2026

The S&P Global Canada services purchasing managers index climbed to 49.1 as price pressures intensified and output and sales declined.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 7, 2026

I wrote the poem on an index card and memorized it while I cleaned the gas company.

From "Breaking Through" by Francisco Jiménez

All three major stock indexes rose, with the S&P and Nasdaq capping their best week since April.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 8, 2026

“This is reflected in the ever-shorter and ever-shallower dips in key indexes, and by the relatively violent reactions when good news justifies an upward revaluation,” he adds.

From MarketWatch Aug. 7, 2026

Both indexes registered their largest weekly gains since April.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 7, 2026

European stock indexes rose at the open, extending a raft of record highs, with the Stoxx 600 index up and industrial and retail stocks gaining.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 6, 2026

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

From "Kindred" by Octavia Butler

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 are just some of the reasons that Research Affiliates several years ago introduced a different way of constructing indices known as “fundamental indexes,” which don’t weight constituent stocks by market valuation.

From MarketWatch Jun. 15, 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

And that is certainly true when it comes to indexed universal life insurance policies, or IULs.

From MarketWatch Jun. 16, 2026

Before it could go to the Marshall Library, everything had to be indexed.

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

But his approach is direct indexing — he uses Frec.com, one of Social Leverage’s “big investments” — so he can tailor an index like the S&P 500 to his preferences.

From MarketWatch Jul. 21, 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

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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