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[in-deks] / ˈɪn dɛks /




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Among best performers on Japan’s benchmark index, JX Advanced Metals rose 3.3%, Screen Holdings added 3.1%, and BayCurrent advanced 3.0%.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 24, 2026

One such strategy, direct indexing, involves buying individual securities that track the performance of an index while also generating losses that can be used to reduce capital-gains taxes.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 23, 2026

When materials undergo these phase changes, important physical properties can change as well, including density and refractive index, which affect how sound and light travel through them.

From Science Daily Aug. 22, 2026

That has given rise to accusations that index funds are so big they can’t help but win.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 21, 2026

Jenna wrapped an unraveling thread from her T-shirt around her index finger.

From "Keep It Together, Keiko Carter" by Debbi Michiko Florence

Between 1890 and 2024, sale-price indexes indicate that home prices were up over 1,000% in San Diego and Los Angeles, and nearly half as much in Boston.

From MarketWatch Aug. 22, 2026

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

SpaceX shares dropped more than broader market indexes Thursday after Elon Musk said a big rocket operation was still months away.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 20, 2026

European stock indexes were mixed, with gains in autos and semiconductors unable to lift the lift the Europe-wide Stoxx 600 index.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 20, 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

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

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

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

After stumbling, the Nasdaq accelerated, with its gain in Bespoke’s indexed series reaching 592.5% in March 2000.

From MarketWatch Jul. 31, 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

It appeared as a jumble of cascading windows floating in front of me, displaying text, maps, photos, and audio and video files, all indexed, cross-referenced, and pulsing with life.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline

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

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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