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[in-deks] / ˈɪn dɛks /




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From the start of the year through the end of August, the official consumer-price index rose by 2.5%.

From MarketWatch Sep. 23, 2026

Chip stocks were steady premarket after the Nasdaq closed at another record high Tuesday, with futures for the index edging up 0.05%.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 23, 2026

“Those issues haven’t gone away, and today we are finally starting to see some index deterioration,” Krinsky said in written commentary shared on Tuesday.

From MarketWatch Sep. 23, 2026

An exchange-traded fund that is rebalanced quarterly is doing a better job of keeping up with the artificial-intelligence trade than the broader index.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 22, 2026

She began to dot the paste onto each spider bite with her index finger.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray

European stock indexes rose at the open, with banking and technology stocks lifting the Stoxx 600.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 23, 2026

Major stock indexes also slipped, but not as far as some traders might have expected on a day when debt benchmarks that affect rates on everything from corporate bonds to mortgages soared.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 23, 2026

That doesn’t mean these diffusion indexes have no value.

From MarketWatch Sep. 23, 2026

It turns out that the taxable-equivalent spread for these two indexes hasn’t been this wide in over a year.

From MarketWatch Sep. 22, 2026

The warden’s library is a big dark room with heavy red drapes drawn closed and floor-to-ceiling books—the kind of official volumes with thick indexes Natalie likes.

From "Al Capone Does My Shirts" by Gennifer Choldenko

Remarkably, just 2% of global equity market indices are trading above both their 50-day and 200-day moving averages, down from 66% a week ago, the strategists find.

From MarketWatch Sep. 18, 2026

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

From Barron's Sep. 14, 2026

Huijin, the state-investment arm that acts as China’s plunge-protection team, stepped back into the market last week, buying broad-based exchange-traded funds tied to stock indices to stabilize the market.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 28, 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

And this brings us to the call of the day from Rene Reyna, head of thematic and specialty product strategy for Invesco’s exchange-traded fund and indexed strategies.

From MarketWatch Sep. 22, 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

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

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

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

One such strategy, direct indexing, involves buying individual securities that track the performance of an index—such as the S&P 500 or the Schwab 1000—while also generating losses that can be used to reduce capital-gains taxes.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 10, 2026

A common practice at Ellevest is direct indexing, through which investors directly buy stocks and create a personalized index.

From MarketWatch Jul. 9, 2026

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

From Barron's Jun. 18, 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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