As TD Ameritrade notes, the index is a look back, not forward.
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So he put together his own sample edition, with roughed-out maps, margin notes, an index and a list of appendixes, and sent it out again.
Most offer a return over the life of the investment that is a multiple of the return on some index (or with its Bear Market Notes, the decline in that index).
At 602 pages, index, notes and all, the book is a long commitment for any reader.
To be sure, funds with a low R-squared performed worse during the financial crisis than index huggers, notes Notre Dame's Prof.
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Dave Lutz, ETF strategist at brokerage firm Stifel Nicolaus, notes that the FTSE emerging markets index does not currently include South Korea while MSCI puts the country at 15.5% of the index.
"The notes will reflect the performance of the index, so the customer's money will never go into the actual hedge fund, " said Naveed Ahmad, head of investments at Dubai Islamic Bank, at the product's unveiling.
He notes that IBM topped 6% of the index in the 1980s.
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In fact, notes Murphy, 14 of the 19 commodities in the index saw losses on Thursday.
But now, Hussman notes in his latest market commentary that the ECRI Weekly Leading Index, which has been a leading indicator for the ISM index, has declined to -6.9%, a bad sign.
Market technician Arthur Hill on Stockcharts.com notes some exceptionally rare oversold readings on the SPY chart on an indicator called the commodity channel index (CCI).
Google's official page for Webmasters cryptically notes that Google is "able to place fewer restraints on sites that we crawl for this supplemental index than we do on sites that are crawled for our main index, " a phrase that puzzles most search marketers.
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