Of course, the NYSE Financial Index is even worse, having declined almost 18% this year.
Their stocks, measured by the MSCI China Financial Index, gained about 8% last month.
Select Sector SPDR-Financial (XLF) has 81 cap-weighted holdings, Vanguard Financial Index Fund (VFH) has 492 cap-weighted holdings, iShares Dow Jones US Financial Sector (IYF) has 258 cap-weighted holdings and , iShares Dow Jones US Financial Services (IYG) has 119 cap-weighted holdings.
These two characteristics, when combined, create an index of secrecy jurisdictions, or tax havens if you prefer, called the Financial Secrecy Index.
Jersey has fallen eight places and out of the top 20 in the Global Financial Centres Index (GFCI).
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Some ETFs she likes include SSgA Money Market Fund (SSMXX), SSgA Prime Money Market Fund (SVPXX) and iShares Dow Jones Financial Sector Index Fund (IYF).
The iShares MSCI Europe Financial Sector Index exchange-traded fund, which tracks a basket of bank stocks in the region, slumped 2.6%, its third-biggest daily drop this year.
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The financial conditions index indicates that Singapore should see little growth benefit from increased global liquidity with a stronger SGD offsetting any beneficial impact on domestic financial conditions.
Goldman Sachs's calculations suggest that, to reduce growth from 4% to 3%, (an optimistic estimate of America's new sustainable growth rate) the financial conditions index would need to increase by 1.25 percentage points.
According to the ETF Finder at ETF Channel, BAC makes up 7.76% of the iShares Dow Jones U.S. Financial Services Index Fund ETF (IYG)which is trading lower by about 0.1% on the day Thursday.
According to the ETF Finder at ETF Channel, JPM makes up 10.97% of the iShares Dow Jones U.S. Financial Services Index Fund ETF ( AMEX: IYG )which is trading higher by about 0.3% on the day Monday.
According to the ETF Finder at ETF Channel, JPM makes up 10.16% of the iShares Dow Jones U.S. Financial Services Index Fund ETF ( AMEX: IYG )which is trading lower by about 1.3% on the day Monday.
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According to the ETF Finder at ETF Channel, C and BAC collectively make up 15.62% of the iShares Dow Jones U.S. Financial Services Index Fund ETF (IYG) which is lower by about 0.9% on the day Thursday.
According to the ETF Finder at ETF Channel, Bank of America Corp. ( NYSE: BAC) makes up 8.12% of the iShares Dow Jones U.S. Financial Services Index Fund ETF (IYG)which is trading higher by about 0.4% on the day Friday.
According to the ETF Finder at ETF Channel, Bank of America Corp. ( NYSE: BAC) makes up 7.85% of the iShares Dow Jones U.S. Financial Services Index Fund ETF (IYG)which is trading up by about 0.8% on the day Friday.
According to the ETF Finder at ETF Channel, Bank of America Corp. ( NYSE: BAC) makes up 8.13% of the iShares Dow Jones U.S. Financial Services Index Fund ETF (IYG)which is trading up by about 0.7% on the day Tuesday.
Other ETFs with a large Bank of America position include the iShares Dow Jones U.S. Financial Services Index Fund (IYG), with an allocation of nearly 9.8%, and the SPDR KBW Bank ETF (KBE) with an allocation of over 10.6%.
To be sure, funds with a low R-squared performed worse during the financial crisis than index huggers, notes Notre Dame's Prof.
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Since then City Index and, more recently, Financial Spreads, a subsidiary of Sporting Index, have also muscled into finance.
The Dow Jones Euro Stoxx index for financial services was up 1.4% on Tuesday afternoon.
Shares of financial companies, the index's worst-performing sector over the past month, led the advance, while telecommunications and consumer-staples stocks lagged behind.
The Dow Jones Euro Stoxx index for financial services closed up 0.9% on Tuesday, after making bigger gains earlier on in the afternoon.
Warren Financial has built an index such that when the reading reaches 100, the economic disaster has become more likely to occur than to be averted.
In Japan Mizhuo Financial is now in the Index, having gained 13% over the past year.
Analyst polled by Thomson Financial had expected to the index to register at 0.
The Financial Times Latin-America Index is down 6% over the last five weeks.
Google is using its vast network of web data on prices to build a Google Price Index, the Financial Times newspaper reports.
Despite two interest-rate increases this summer and a rise in corporate-bond yields, the index suggests that financial conditions in America are close to their loosest in ten years.
Yet between now and close of business on March 31st, the government will be doing its best to rig the country's stockmarket so that the Nikkei index ends the financial year above 18, 000.
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