That was especially the case in commodities markets, where selling by index-tracking ETFs would be instantly visible to traders, unlike harder to spot sales of bullion.
They contributed to government, laborers and lenders, but cannot be measured by the index.
Prices also rose in 10 of the cities measured by the index in November from October.
Once again, it would appear that options traders are offsetting long stock positions by purchasing index puts.
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And in making these calculations, Mr Malkiel plays fair: he deducts the typical running expense (one-fifth of 1%) charged by an index fund.
Amihud uses a statistical measure called "R-squared" to observe how much of active fund managers' returns can be explained simply by the index.
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Of the 10 crucial APEAL measures, Vehicle Exterior, Interior, and Seats have improved the most, each by 6 index points, as compared to 2010.
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He argues that an advance by the index of at least 1% above the intraday high, to about 1, 613, should discard expectations of a sharp pullback.
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Is this the future of the actively managed mutual fund: a bunch of ingredients thrown into the mixing bowl and hard to replicate by an index?
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Moreover, you suggest that monetary policy can be guided by an index that combines conventional measures of consumer prices with an arbitrary measure of inflation in current house transactions.
The average industry APEAL score increased by 3 index points from 2010, to 781 on a 1, 000-point scale, based on more than 90 vehicle attributes including mileage to comfort to roominess and everything in between.
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Lehman Brothers Holdings is among the investment banks that are forecasting home prices as measured by this index are going to decline another 10 percent, and it predicts new home sales will bottom out in the middle of this year.
Every piece of data covered by the index seemed to come in negative in January, with 13 of the 20 MSAs showing further deceleration in annual growth rates and the 10 and 20-City Composites marking their sixth consecutive month of declines.
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The German stock market, as measured by the DAX index, soared on Friday by 4% and Italian stocks climbed by more than 6%.
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The volatility or fear index, as measured by the CBOE Volatility Index (VIX), is over 33, and has remained over 30 since the beginning of August, when the American debt issues and worries about Greece really started to reemerge in the market place.
According to the MBA, as of the week ending June 3, 2011, mortgage loan applications, as measured by the seasonally adjusted Purchase Index, decreased by 4.4% over the course of the previous week and by 3% over the month of May.
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Bearish feeling was aggravated by data indicating that the Empire State index dropped by 11.72 points.
In addition, hedge fund managers, unlike mutual fund managers, aren't judged by how well they perform against an index but by how strong their profits are in a given year.
While active investment involves an asset manager making investments with the aim of outperforming a benchmark index, passive investment requires an asset manager to replicate the benchmark index by incorporating the constituent assets in similar proportions (weights) and thereby matching the returns of the index.
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It has beaten the Russell 1000 index by a full percentage point (with a 3.2% annual return to 2.2% for the index).
The precious yellow metal was pressured by a stronger U.S. dollar index and by the present weak near-term technical posture for gold.
On Thursday, we will get the monthly report on the Producer Price Index and jobless claims, followed by the Consumer Price Index and industrial production numbers on Friday.
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Adding to the day's upbeat tone was an unexpected rise in German economic sentiment, as measured by the ZEW economic expectations index, and an upgrade by the International Monetary Fund to its global growth forecasts for 2012 and 2013.
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