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[in-deks] / ˈɪn dɛks /




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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

Corporate bonds fared even worse than ICE BofA’s index of Treasury bonds, which lost about 13%.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 19, 2026

Autocallable notes are structured-debt instruments tied to stocks or an index with underlying equity exposure.

From MarketWatch Sep. 18, 2026

That additional interaction time amplified the small refractive index change in the silicon.

From Science Daily Sep. 18, 2026

It took a long time to look up Sawfallen Street in the index, flip to the proper page, and memorize directions without so much as touching her finger to the page.

From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

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

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

European stocks struggled after a strong session on Thursday, as the continent’s more defensively constituted indexes lost out as investors returned to risk.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 18, 2026

We checked indexes and even leafed through some of the books page by page to be sure.

From "Kindred" by Octavia Butler

"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

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

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

"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

Our financial adviser wants us to invest our money in an annuity with dual directional indexed accounts.

From MarketWatch Jun. 11, 2026

Before it could go to the Marshall Library, everything had to be indexed.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield

So, one way or another, indexing now dominates the U.S. market.

From MarketWatch Aug. 31, 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

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

“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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