Consider that the double-B subset of the Barclays High-Yield Index, at 4.33% on Tuesday, is nearly a full percentage point lower than where it stood at the beginning of September and is down roughly 175 bps from levels a year ago.
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Durable goods, as in Boeing and Caterpillar, are double-weighted, while technology is half its index weighting.
Year-to-date, major index returns in double digits would suggest good things have happened so far.
The advantage of diversification is still achieved, and a two-to-one leveraged ETF will double the performance of the index while still avoiding the risk in the individual stocks.
This year, for instance, the fund was up 71% to Oct. 31, double the performance of the MSCI Combined Far East Free Ex-Japan Index.
While the numbers clearly demonstrate that the Index is going for a second bottom, David Blitzer, chairman of the Index Committee, was weary of using the term double-dip.
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Finally, the CBOE Market Volatility Index confirmed the peak at its double low in the 30-area, as it did a round-trip back below a few key long-term moving averages and the 20-Level.
The daily chart of the Powershares DB US Dollar Index Bullish Fund ( UUP) shows the breakout from a short-term double-bottom formation (line b).
Carlson has delivered a 13% compound annual return since then, a percentage point better than the emerging market index and better than double what you would have earned from the collection of high-grade U.S. paper in the Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund .
The consumer price index from early 1933 through mid-1937 rose by about 15% in spite of double-digit unemployment.
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They sold completely out of UltraShort Health Care ProShares, an exchange-traded fund that moves double in the opposite direction of the Dow Jones U.S. Health Care Index.
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