No surprise, then, that health care inflation is currently going up 9% a year, more than double the Consumer Price Index.
The index shows double digit annual growth since fourth quarter 2012.
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Where he really separates himself from the MSCI EAFE Index of developed world stocks are in two sectors highly sensitive to the economy: technology and industrials with weightings nearly double those of the index.
Year-to-date, major index returns in double digits would suggest good things have happened so far.
Some of the cheapest index funds cost double that price or more.
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.
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 .
China has also seen its share of global scientific output, as measured in scientific publications listed in the Science Citation Index (SCI), double between 2002 and 2008 from 5.2% to 10.6%, placing it second only to the USA in numerical terms.
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.
Durable goods, as in Boeing and Caterpillar, are double-weighted, while technology is half its index weighting.
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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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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The UltraShort Financials ProShares moves at a rate double the inverse of the Dow Jones U.S. Financials index.
In recent days, the VIX Index, a measure of expected stock market volatility has been double the historic norm.
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.
In repositioning their assets, the M100 took a marginally bullish though heavily hedged stance, pouring cash into both the iShares Lehman 10-20 Year Treasury Bond and, to a lesser degree, into Ultra Industrials ProShares, and ETF that moves at a rate double the amount of change in the Dow Jones U.S. Industrials index.
Last week the index of gold mining shares were up 6.5% or almost double the price of gold.
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.
They are designed to double or triple the performance (or the inverse of the performance) of the target index when held for a day.
The Dow Jones US Internet index is down 11.7% over the past three months, essentially double the decline in the Spyder Trust ( SPY).
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).
The consumer price index from early 1933 through mid-1937 rose by about 15% in spite of double-digit unemployment.
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