index
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Kenvue is being acquired and will therefore depart the index.
From Barron's ● Oct. 31, 2026
Nvidia’s weight in the tech index promptly shot up to about 21%, Microsoft remained about the same and Apple fell to less than 5%.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
“In my investing lifetime, you know, if an index fund would do 11%, well, imagine how well you would’ve done if you’d leveraged that up 50% whatever the prevailing rates were over time,” Buffett said.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026
The Nasdaq 100 index plunged roughly 4%, wiping out more than $1 trillion in value.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026
In late January 2007 the bonds—or rather, the ABX index made up of the bonds—began to fall in price.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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Proceeds from some trades went to meet margin requirements tied to credit default swap indexes and other trades.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
Even if an employee did take an interest and pick their own investments, they’d have only about 15-30 choices of mutual funds, most of which would align to broad-market indexes or sectors.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2026
Home prices as measured by national indexes, such as Case-Shiller or the National Association of Realtors, still show growth because they look backward, Anthony Smith, a senior economist at Realtor.com, told MarketWatch.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 28, 2026
China’s Shanghai Composite Index recovered early losses to close 0.2% higher, though tech heavy indexes in South Korea and Japan both fell back.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 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
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A modest 2% increase in ratings revenue to $1.27 billion was offset by robust 20% growth in indices revenue to $554 million.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 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
From the conclusions drawn by Bank of America’s proprietary “bubble risk indicator,” analysts remain relatively untroubled about U.S. stock indices and say equities will quickly bounce back from any pullback.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026
Global capital markets have recorded sharp volatility recently, with pullbacks for major Chinese and global indices and rising implied volatility, Meng notes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 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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By the researchers’ estimate, growth in their private-credit investments accounts for all the increase in that indexed annuity share.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026
“Rates were going up, but they indexed really close to inflation.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026
American Equity, for instance, pays agents a commission of 5% to 7% of a policyholder’s deposit on some 10-year indexed annuities.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026
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
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
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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
But, he notes, the “average pop has gone down since then even though indexing has increased.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 14, 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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