Sure, the studies show that over time index investing will give you the same returns as letting an educated human pick stocks for you.
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The Waltons were the biggest gainers of the day on the Forbes Real-Time index, which tracks the gains and losses in major public holdings of a select group of billionaires.
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Researchers at the U.K.'s University of East Anglia now are working on a scale they call the "dwell time index" to calculate how much time a planet has orbited in a habitable zone, compared with the time it took life to evolve on Earth.
The Conference Board also reported Monday that its index for leading economic indicators made a surprise 0.3% gain in December, the first time the index has rose since June.
The last time the index was below 50 was in December 2010, when it stood at 49.7.
The last time the index was at 50 or higher was in April 2006, when it was 51.
By the time this index drops below 60, GDP has already turned negative.
The last time the index was below 12, 000 was in March 2007.
There is little doubt that the boys had loaded up their computer toys with sell programs each time either index managed to spend a few minutes across the line.
The Environmental Protection Agency, together with other federal, state, local, and tribal agencies, developed AIRNow.gov, offering the public daily Air Quality Index forecasts and real-time Air Quality Index conditions for over 300 cities across the country as well as links to detailed state and local air quality cites.
Prior to that time, all index funds to that point were beta-seeking products that followed the risk and return of a broad market, less a small fee.
It is the first time since 1994 for the index to end the year with a loss, and only the third time since it was first compiled in 1984.
This week, every time a global stock index was trading lower, China was cited as one of the culprits.
Being a real-time measure, the index contrasts with GDP and employment reports which are based on surveys and come with lags and revisions.
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The 20-City Composite fell 3.1% from January 2010 while 11 of the 20 metropolitan areas (MSA) surveyed hit their all-time lows since the index began.
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At the time of this posting (late Sunday night, central time) the Nikkei index was down more than 6% and shares of Tokyo Electric were off 24%.
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At the same time the national price index for personal consumption spending increased 0.3% in the third quarter, which is seasonally adjusted, but may reflect a slight pick up in pre-holiday spending.
The Conference Board, a New York-based business research group, reported Tuesday that its Consumer Confidence Index fell to 37.7 in January, an all-time low going back to the index's inception in 1967.
Performance reflects results for the hypothetical index asset allocation portfolios during the corresponding time period, and are net of reinvested index dividends.
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Indeed, the Dow has performed less badly against gold since its all-time top than the broader index has.
At the same time, the Philly Fed index topped expectations, despite marking a fifth consecutive month of declines.
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The broad Topic index at the time was at 0.89 times book value.
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The other keys to fast response time are a very flexible index which can be built when the data is imported or later.
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Even if the company's finances do deteriorate, it will probably be dropped from the index by the time the six months are up.
The last time the home-builder confidence index was above 50 was in April, 2006.
The index hit an all time high in November of 2008, at 80.86.
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During that same time, the iShares MSCI Emerging Index ETF and the iShares MSCI Brazil Index ETF have lost 5.4% and 5.5% respectively.
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The last time the eurozone's services index went below 50 was in mid-2003, when the eurozone was growing at the the snail's pace of 0.8%.
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