indices

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Since the end of February, the three major stock market indices — the Standard & Poor’s 500, the Dow Jones industrials and the Nasdaq composite — have fallen by a few percentage points.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

“Higher energy prices would remain an economic drag which would contribute to keeping major equity indices from immediately returning to their previous highs,” he wrote in an update published Wednesday.

From Barron's • Apr. 1, 2026

“It is intended to make the indices more representative of the real economic exposure they are designed to measure,” the index provider said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

War in the Middle East has triggered a sharp risk-off reaction across markets at the start of the week, with equity indices sliding, while gold, oil and the U.S. dollar are rising.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 2, 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