The SPDR Diamonds Trust ( DIA), which tracks the Dow, was the only one of the four stock index ETFs to make new highs last Tuesday, but it slightly broke the longer-term support at line c on Wednesday.
The four iShares index funds (see table below), issued by the Global Investors unit of Barclays (nyse: BCS - news - people ), sport a rock-bottom expense ratio of 0.15 versus open-end bond fund averages of around 1.00 and the 0.20 charged by low-cost leader Vanguard.
The general business conditions index fell four points to -7.7, its third consecutive negative reading.
The drop comes even as two of the four components of the index made positive moves.
The index comprises four weighted measures: 50% STEM occupation growth, 25% technology industry growth, 12.5% STEM occupation concentration, and 12.5% technology industry concentration.
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He quickly adds that on three of those four occasions, the index gave up all of those gains and fell another 5% in subsequent weeks.
The Nasdaq Composite Index rose four points, or 0.1%, to 3179.96.
This thriving trade in man-made body parts has enriched shareholders of device makers: An index of 11 such stocks is up 43% in four years, while a drugmaker index has fallen 2%, hurt by the Vioxx safety scandal and other travails.
The continued weakness in the Japanese yen pushed the Nikkei stock index to a four-plus-year high Wednesday.
That is, at least four trading sessions after the index begins moving up from the bottom of a correction.
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Sivak said that the 14 percent drop in his index swamps the four percent increase in drivers over the period.
On March 11 the Japan REIT index reached a four year eight month high, 10% above the level immediately preceding the Lehman shock.
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The index hit a four-week low Tuesday.
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In August the Goldman Sachs Commodities Index fell, breaking four years of month-on-month increases.
The index Friday hit a four-week high, in the wake of the greenback-bullish FOMC minutes issued last week.
He provided stats on crime, educational attainment, presence of four-year colleges and an index on cultural and recreational opportunities.
The dollar index Tuesday hit a four-week low and the greenback bulls are still on some shaky technical ground.
The latest problems came only two days after the FTSE 100 index was unavailable for four hours on Monday.
That news sunk the U.S. dollar index to a fresh four-month low and was bullish for the U.S. stock market.
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The Market Vectors Russia (RSX) has been outperforming its peers in the MSCI Emerging Markets index over the last four weeks.
The Index evaluates countries in four broad areas of economic freedom: rule of law, regulatory efficiency, limited government and open markets.
The U.S. dollar index moving to a four-week high Tuesday is also a bearish underlying factor for the gold and silver markets.
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In August the Goldman Sachs (nyse: GS - news - people ) Commodities Index fell, breaking four years of month-on-month increases.
Specifically, the index, which spent four of the prior six months trading between 30 and 40, logged its third consecutive close below 20 on Wednesday.
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For the first four months of 2012, the Index returned 4.53%.
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The market responded positively to the bank's move, with the Nikkei 225 index rising to a four-month high, while the yen fell against both the dollar and the euro.
In Russia, where the lower house of parliament gave final approval to a measure to extend the presidential term to six years, from four, Moscow's RTS index was up 2.8%, led by Gazprom, up 5.6%.
Those various components are weighted broadly in line with the structure of the economy, so that changes in consumer and producer prices account for about four-fifths of the total index, property about 15% and share prices 5%.
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The Russell Global Index, which launched in 2006 with 10, 000 global stocks in 61 countries, reported that year to date through Nov. 12 four of the five top global index performers were emerging markets, with Indonesia at the top having returned 44.6%, followed by Turkey, Mexico and India.
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