On an equal-weighted basis, the nine biggest sports tv advertisers sank an average of 1.2% in 2011 and have increased 4.1% year-to-date.

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The underlying Solactive Global Oil Equities Index tracks the performance of 25 equal-weighted companies that have shown a high correlation to the spot price of oil.

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Credit Suisse Cushing 30 MLP Index ETN ( MLPN), launched in April 2010, tracks an equal-weighted index comprised of 30 publicly traded stocks in the North American energy infrastructure niche, primarily midstream energy assets.

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The Morgan Stanley Commodity Related Index (CRX) is an equal-dollar weighted index of 20 stocks involved in commodity related industries such as energy, non-ferrous metals, agriculture, and forest products.

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The SPIVA Scorecard provides performance comparisons corrected for survivorship bias, equal- and asset-weighted peer averages and measures of style consistency for actively managed U.S. equity, international equity and fixed income mutual funds.

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According to the ETF Finder at ETF Channel, SHLD and SBAC collectively make up 1.96% of the Direxion NASDAQ-100 Equal Weighted Index Shares ETF (QQQE) which is lower by about 0.4% on the day Friday.

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According to the ETF Finder at ETF Channel, XRAY and VMED collectively make up 2.14% of the Direxion NASDAQ-100 Equal Weighted Index Shares ETF (QQQE) which is lower by about 0.4% on the day Friday.

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Other equal-weight ETFs also lose the price battle to cap-weighted index funds.

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Basel I focused mainly on credit risk, international banks which were required to hold capital equal to 8% of the risk-weighted assets.

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