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[in-deks] / ˈɪn dɛks /




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But that would still mark the eighth straight quarter of double-digit earnings gains for the benchmark index.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 27, 2026

The widely followed index of U.S. large-cap stocks is, so far, up both this month and this quarter, even as Treasury rates have risen over both periods.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 26, 2026

ING economists expect the official purchasing managers’ index on Wednesday to signal a slight recovery across both manufacturing and non-manufacturing, projecting headline readings of 50.1 and 49.2, respectively.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

Over the past 10 years, 56% of bond funds beat the Agg, but a mere 45% outperformed the index that was the best fit for their strategy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

I reached out my right index finger toward the baby, hoping to scratch the top of her head.

From "Willodeen" by Katherine Applegate

The indexes finished the week higher, despite a midweek selloff.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

But many consumers’ investment accounts have been lifted by soaring stocks indexes, which have been boosted by strong corporate earnings and AI optimism.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

The prospect of geopolitical accords were a relief for stock indexes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

That doesn’t mean these diffusion indexes have no value.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 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

"Any change in the AI trade will have big ramifications for US indices," she warned.

From Barron's ● Sep. 14, 2026

“European indices are more vulnerable to changes in energy prices and the global economic outlook, as they are more cyclical than their international peers,” Swissquote’s Ipek Ozkardeskaya wrote in a research note.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

The Barclays team found that over the past week, during which the S&P 500 hit a fresh record high, “skews across global indices collapsed as investors chased the rally and demand for protection faded.”

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 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

It now hits far fewer taxpayers as the threshold matches the federal exemption amount, which is $15 million for 2026 and is indexed for inflation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 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

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

He’s tried Claude Code before but prefers Cursor’s indexed codebase, which allows users to query a multi-file project in natural language and find relevant code.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 19, 2026

A simple task be-cause Brother Leon insisted that all kinds of cross- indexed lists be kept so that you could tell at a glance just where students stood.

From "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier

The index fund is a huge improvement over much of what it replaced; Vanguard estimates indexing has saved private investors $570 billion in fund management fees just since 2000.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 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

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

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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