Since the end of August, the large-cap index has appreciated by more than 12%.
In addition to eventually adding more functionality and a consumer-facing label to the Higg Index, the Sustainable Apparel Coalition plans to add more high-end fashion companies to its membership roster in the near future, which would differentiate it from virtually every other sustainability initiative in the apparel industry.
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Mike Lenhoff, a stock market strategist who is also from Brewin Dolphin, is optimistic about prospects for European equities for the rest of 2009 and has a year-end target of 5, 000 points for Britain's FTSE 100 all-share index, a level it has hovered around for the last month.
From August 27 to the end of that year, the index returned an eye-pooping 22.5%.
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The Nikkei's 69% rise since mid-November, including 18% since the BOJ announced its stimulus plan, has left brokers scrambling to revise their forecasts, with many now saying the benchmark index will reach 16000 by year-end.
The University of Michigan's consumer-confidence index was stronger at the end of July than preliminary estimates had indicated, but still much weaker than in June.
In effect, they can end up owning most of the market and become like over-priced index funds.
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Japan's Nikkei index closed at 8, 429.45 on Friday - its lowest year-end close since 1982.
The similarly sized Abu Dhabi Investment Authority has been cutting its equity allocation to the lower end of its target band of 40-55% of assets, and giving more to index-trackers and less to expensive active managers.
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In particular, the end of lockups could add two billion shares over the next year will offset some of the index-related buying pressure, said Stuart Thomas, principal at Precidian Investments, which develops ETFs, or funds that can be traded intraday, like a stock.
Toward the end of last year, Google launched a new mobile user agent (Googlebot-Mobile) and index for mobile content.
In 2010, when the Fed chief not-too-subtly hinted at QE2, investors that jumped in following the speech reaped returns in excess of 20% through the end of the year, the Russell 3000 index shows, while in 2011, when Operation Twist was in the back-burner, they made 9.3%.
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