It will result in the creation of a terror-free index available to public, institutional, and individual investors across America.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Progress for terror-free investment index
For some time now, Wall Street firms have averred that a terror-free international index can be created, but no entity has specifically requested that one be created.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Progress for terror-free investment index
Morgan Stanley's Emerging Markets Free Latin America index (open to foreign investors, that is) sells for 13 times earnings, compared with 33 for the U.S. and 24 for Europe.
Ward's portfolio has risen 1.7% against the benchmark MSCI Asia Pacific Free ex-Japan index, which has fallen 13.3% since February.
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.
However, crude oil prices went into a free fall and the U.S. dollar index soared, which ultimately led to panic-type selling in most markets, including gold and silver.
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Less than nine minutes later, the venerable index was more than 100 points lower and in a free-fall.
But reasonably sophisticated investors can create the same product themselves by purchasing a risk-free zero-coupon Treasury bond and call options on a stock index, such as XSP options traded on the Chicago Board Options Exchange.
Created from the DMF is the Social Security Death Index (SSDI) which is available, as I discovered, free online from several genealogy websites.
And far more of the European's package is in bonuses and free shares linked to the performance of the company relative to its sector or an index, rather than in options which relate rewards solely to the movement of the company's share price.
The resultant index of census records and images will then be published state by state with free access for all.
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Gazprom shares--or at least 49% of them--are about to become free-floating, at which point they will suddenly jumped from nil in the benchmark Morgan Stanley Emerging Market Index to 10% of the weighting--the largest single component, likely to edge out even powerhouse Korean electronics manufacturer Samsung .
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