The Chinese market had its best day in two months, and the chart of the Shanghai A Share Index is starting to look more interesting.
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Mike Lenhoff, a stock market strategist who is also from Brewin Dolphin, is optimistic about prospects for European equities for the rest of 2009 and has a year-end target of 5, 000 points for Britain's FTSE 100 all-share index, a level it has hovered around for the last month.
Not a single one on France's CAC 40 share index or on Germany's DAX index is run by a woman.
The Israel All Share Index rose by a factor of 6, 500 over the period.
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He has been alerting his readers since summertime about the coming unwinding in real estate and even created a "Housing Bubble Bellwether Index" of about a dozen companies with a significant share of revenue coming from construction and housing related purchases.
The markets gave the growth data a muted response, with the main UK share index, the FTSE 100, ending the day up just 0.3 points.
The FTSE 100 index, a proxy for the share price performance of FTSE 100 shares, is still not back to where it was 11 years ago, during which time the average pay of FTSE 100 bosses has more than trebled.
Just days after FTSE International promoted nine technology stocks to the FTSE 100, the City's key share index, these shares went on a downward spiral.
Despite the flooding, the 30-share benchmark index of the Bombay Stock Exchange hit a record high on Tuesday.
One is to offer a new share class as Vanguard is doing with its giant Vanguard 500 Index fund ( VFINX).
To finish the story, I made a decision in 1997 that my clients would earn their fair share of market returns through a portfolio of very low-cost index mutual funds and exchange-traded funds that track industry benchmarks.
In London, the FTSE 100 share index closed at 6, 222.5 points - a loss of 10.2% over the past 12 months.
The new fund has scrapped an initial charge of 3.5%, which was levied on retail customers but has introduced a 10% performance fees on any return above the FTSE All-share index.
One of the few exceptions was Sri Lanka, where the Colombo All Share Index rose, proof I guess that the Sri Lankans took a more benign view about whether Nick and Dave would get it together.
Among companies with succession plans, those that underperformed the market saw their share price fall an average 4% below the index, compared with a downside of 7% and 13%, respectively, for unexpected resignations and crisis-related transitions, such as fraud and restructuring.
This has coincided with a quadrupling in top executives' pay, whereas company share prices as measured by the FTSE100 index have gone nowhere and average earnings for the rest of us have increased just a few percentage points a year.
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Peugeot, a founding member of the main French stock market index, the Cac-40, was demoted last year as a result of its tumbling share price.
With the Olympus Image Share smartphone application (to be released in September), easy image upload onto a smartphone via a thumbnail index, adding Art Filters to images on a smartphone, and sharing images on various social networking services is possible.
From around DM35 a share in early 1993, Veba's stock soared to over DM130 early this year, handily outpacing the DAX index (see chart).
He made the point that all investors are entitled to their fair share of market returns, and the best way to capture these returns is with a portfolio of low-fee index funds.
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