The NASDAQ Bank Index, after its rally, still sells 40 percent below its 2006 high water mark.
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An apt comparison is between Greece and the NASDAQ bank index of 473 domestic and foreign banks.
The Financial Select Sector SPDR ETF was up 2.5% and the KBW Bank Index was trading up around 2.2%.
Banks are once again feeling the brunt of it with the KBW bank index down nearly 5% this morning.
The Dow Jones Titans Bank index, which tracks big banks worldwide, rose 1.4%.
The KBW Bank Index fell by 5.3%, but some of the biggest banks in the U.S. fell more, like Citigroup, which fell by 6.6%.
Bank stocks as measured by the KBW Bank Index are up 27% during the last year, compared with a 12% return for the Dow.
For example, if you have a bank stock with a loss, you can move the money from the loss into a bank index ETF, he explains, so that you'll have similar sector exposure.
India's Sensex stood out as the region's only benchmark to trade lower, down 0.9% late in the afternoon, after the Reserve Bank of Index shocked markets by failing to cut interest rates.
The bank-share index fell 9.4% while the real-estate index was off 10.1%.
It ranks 45th in the World Bank's index of the ease of doing business, above any African nation bar South Africa and Mauritius.
The Powershares DB Commodity Index Tracking Fund ( DBC) is a widely followed and liquid ETF that tracks the changes in the Deutsche Bank Liquid Commodity Index.
He made his name as a basher of burdensome bureaucracy, an issue on which Mr Tusk's government has made only slow progress: Poland is a mid-table laggard in the World Bank's index of business-friendliness.
Bank of America should be terrified that it is near the bottom of the customer-experience index while another bank, USAA, is right at the top.
This ETF is based on the Deutsche Bank Short US Dollar Index Futures Index.
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The Powershares DB US Dollar Index Bullish Fund ( UUP) is designed to track the price and yield performance of the Deutsche Bank long US dollar futures index.
Every three years, when the BIS releases its new foreign-exchange market survey, the WSJ Dollar Index will be reweighted using the bank's latest trading volume figures, making it a dynamic index that evolves with the constantly changing market.
Chart Analysis : The PowerShares DB Dollar Bullish ETF ( UUP) follows the price performance of the Deutsche Bank Long US Dollar Futures Index.
Business conditions for mid-Atlantic manufacturers remain barely positive this month, as the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia's index of general business activity slowed in April from March.
Brazil ranks 127 out of 183 countries in the ranking Ease of Doing Business Index by the World Bank.
In the World Bank's 2010 Logistics Performance Index, it ranks a lowly 75th, well below Thailand, Malaysia and even the Philippines.
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The growth of offshore yuan-denominated bonds, offshore yuan deposits and trade settlement were the main drivers to the rising index, said the bank.
In effect, the bank s stock served as an index fund for the regional economy, which at that time was dominated by the cyclical technology industry.
The Bank still forecasts the consumer price index to fall as the year goes on, hitting the official target of 6% to 7% this year.
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The Bloomberg Index of 52 European bank stocks has fallen from a high of 126.11 on April 15 to a low of 98.62 on June 8.
Although the deterioration in the Scottish economy over the summer has been stemmed, the Bank's monthly Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) report said this amounted to very little change in the Scottish economy.
According to Moody's, the average increase in the World Bank's commodity food price index for emerging countries was 3% year-over-year in the past 12 months, when India's index of wholesale food prices rose 10%.
The Mexican economy expanded by an average of 4.4 percent in the first half of the year, but in June the monthly GDP proxy index at the Central Bank (Banxico) showed growth dipping to 3.8 percent, mainly because of a slowdown in U.S. demand.
An exchange-traded note is an unsecured bank IOU with returns pegged to some index.
The Bank of Scotland's purchasing managers index (PMI) said activity in Scotland's private sector economy expanded at a solid pace.
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