Last month the folks who run the benchmark Russell 2000 small-cap index did their annual reconstitution--replacing 377 of the 2, 000 companies that had outgrown or become too small to fit the index.
For the sixth straight month, no city in the 20-city index saw annual price gains in September.
Results released in May 2011 for the Unisys Security Index, a semi-annual survey of consumer opinion on multiple dimensions of security, showed that 56 percent of Americans saw cargo transported by air, sea or land as extremely or very vulnerable to malicious or terrorist attack.
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First, they unsuccessfully tried to solicit annual marketing fees and ongoing 12b-1 fees from the index fund giants.
Kearney reported in its semi-annual Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) Confidence Index survey that among Japanese, Malaysia had dropped from the top choice in June to No. 32.
This index fell by six points in May to 45, its lowest since 1995. (A score below 50 suggests that more builders reckon the market is poor than think it good.) Economists at Goldman Sachs estimate, from the fall in the homebuilders' index, that construction will fall at an annual rate of 10-15% in the next four quarters.
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The anti-corruption group Transparency International puts out an annual Corruption Perception Index.
The long-term results are not very impressive: Over the two full market cycles Pin Oak has averaged a compound annual return of -6%, putting it 8 points behind the 500 index.
The finding from our annual Fashion Brand Index that shows an increasing importance of fashion brands in the decision-making and purchasing process supports our claim that brands have never mattered more than they do now.
This has been true over the past five years taken together (when the Morgan Stanley (nyse: MS - news - people ) World Index has averaged an 18.3% annual return) and also in every calendar year except 2005, when the return was shy of its historical (post-1926) performance by a whisker.
The CEO of a British company in the FTSE index of 100 blue-chip companies tells of his experience at the most recent annual gathering of shareholders.
The Vanguard 500 Index Fund's annual average return since 1976 has been 13% after taxes for an upper-bracket investor.
One test will be the political urge to soak the rich with higher levies--Australia's top personal income tax is already in the upper reaches of our annual Misery Index.
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