The three year returns were very good for the global markets but the MSCI EAFE index was only up 7.65% while the emerging markets index was up 20.07%.
Six of the 10 indicators that make up the index were positive in January.
Chocolate-maker Nestle and syrupy soda Sierra Mist also shot up the index after announcing new health initiatives.
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Seeking to capitalize on interest in the hands-off approach, the investment business dreamed up the index fund.
Other companies have their own line-up of index funds and ETFs including Barclays iShares, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.
From the early days of printing the church had tried to censor books, drawing up an index of forbidden ones.
But when taking the entire 500 stocks that make up the index as a whole, the multiple that is being applied as an average to all becomes less variable, although critical to assessing prices.
The index showed that home prices fell in 19 out of the 20 metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs, or cities that make up the index), with eight markets hitting their lowest levels since home prices peaked in 2006 and 2007.
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Anecdotal evidence suggests that even the German market is starting to wake up after more than a decade of flat or falling prices, but this has yet to show up the index that we use, which is published with a long lag (there are no figures for 2006).
Chinese stocks were higher ahead of the data, with Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index up 0.9% and the Shanghai Composite Index 2.1% higher.
Chinese stocks were higher ahead of the data, with Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index up 0.5% and the Shanghai Composite Index 1.1% higher.
The German DAX was up 2.7% with the Hang Seng Index up 1.7% as overall the overseas markets continue to act much better.
Britain's FTSE 100 share index was up 0.8%, at 6, 328.20 points, France's CAC-40 was up 0.9%, at 5, 567.97, and the Dax index of 50 leading German shares was up 1.3%, at 7, 923.57 points.
China's Shanghai Composite Index, meanwhile, is up 2.4%, while the overall MSCI Asia index outside Japan is up 1.3%.
Dollar bulls took the reins since May, pushing the greenback up 10% from spring lows, but with the U.S. dollar index up only about 1% from the end of 2010 the key will be how to keep the drive on track in 2012.
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In fact, trading in CBOE index options was up 28% from a year earlier in the recent quarterly release, and these index-based contracts now make up nearly 38% of total trades for the firm.
The pace has picked up at the start of 2006 the index was up 3.23% in January, the strongest monthly performance since August 2000 but overall returns are unlikely to be stunning.
Over the last 12 months, energy prices are up 18 percent, so the overall consumer price index is up 3.5 percent for the 12 months ending in April, and that's somewhat higher than it's been.
The iShares Dow Jones Transportation Index ( IYT) is up 28.3% since the November 16 low, but the Dow Jones Airlines Index ( DJUSAR) is up a whopping 57.4%.
The reason that there were a couple of years where she did not get a cost-of-living increase was because even though she probably felt like the cost of food and gas and groceries were going up, the overall inflation index actually did not go up.
The 19 commodities that make up the CRB Index have soared 55% since the beginning of 2009.
Company earnings continued to be a focus in Hong Kong with the Hang Seng Index up 0.1%.
This has pushed the Dow Jones internet index up by 10% in the past two months (see chart).
Emerging markets could also open higher, with the MSCI Emerging Markets (EEM) index up 0.61 percent in the pre-market.
Company earnings continued to be a focus in Hong Kong with the Hang Seng Index up 0.2% at 22, 580.77.
That pushed the MSCI Emerging Markets index up around 20% in the first quarter before it started selling off.
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The ten year annualized returns were positive with the MSCI EAFE index up 4.67% and the United States up only 2.93%.
Both energy and food prices increased, sending the index up 0.2% from September and up 1.2% for the last 12 months.
That report pushed the U.S. dollar index up from its daily low and in turn tempered the gains in gold and silver.
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