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The index on Friday closed 16.1% below its April record high of 23,933.14, according to Dow Jones Market Data.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 20, 2026
Output from utilities jumped 1.8%, and the index for mining output ticked up 0.1%.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
That additional interaction time amplified the small refractive index change in the silicon.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026
It’s worth adding that Buffett has arranged for his estate to be invested in a low-cost S&P 500 index fund after he has gone.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026
“I don’t like this,” Mom says, making tiny circles in the air with her index finger when I decline her offer of a ride to practice again.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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Robust corporate earnings so far this year have indeed provided the fundamental support for major indexes to trade in record territory.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 19, 2026
Rising bond yields dampened stock indexes, which were mostly in the red.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
All major U.S. indexes were in the green, after the S&P 500 and Nasdaq notched their best trading days in six weeks Thursday.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
Readings of market breadth, which take into account how the majority of stocks are performing, rather than just those in major indexes, are negative on many fronts.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 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
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"Any change in the AI trade will have big ramifications for US indices," she warned.
From Barron's ● Sep. 14, 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
“Strong external demand, combined with continued implementation of existing investment and industrial-upgrading policies, may support manufacturing activity. But persistently weak domestic demand is likely to keep both indices below the 50 threshold.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 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
Activities or illnesses whose safety indices are greater than 6 should be considered quite safe, being equivalent to less than one chance in a million per year.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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"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
That amount is indexed to increase with inflation starting next year, according to the IRS.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 2, 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
Before it could go to the Marshall Library, everything had to be indexed.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
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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
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
“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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