It has beaten the Russell 1000 index by a full percentage point (with a 3.2% annual return to 2.2% for the index).
Avoid names that rank poorly when the full earnings estimates for the index are revised down.
Price increases also picked-up by a full percentage point to an index value of 56.5.
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Michael O'Hanlon, a Brookings Institution senior fellow who spearheads the organization's Iraq Index, says a full removal of Americans troops by the end of next year would be a tall order.
Vernon Sumnicht, chief executive of iSectors, says the hedge-fund index was always the internal benchmark for the Liquid Alternatives model, but that the firm that reports iSectors' returns to advisers and clients wasn't able to obtain full access to the hedge-fund index data until recently.
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Children with Asperger's also had abnormal index-to-ring finger ratios, though less so than full-blown autistics.
Many investors are better off eschewing funds that are exposed to the full blast of market fluctuation, such as actively managed stock funds and stock index funds.
The dollar index has even popped, firming to 76.4, a full point higher than it stood at this time a week ago, when it touched a 15-month low.
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Financial services firms that rely on brokers and advisors face a threat from online channels which are accumulating assets faster than full service firms, partly because of the growing popularity of passive investments such as index funds and ETFs, he added.
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Consider that the double-B subset of the Barclays High-Yield Index, at 4.33% on Tuesday, is nearly a full percentage point lower than where it stood at the beginning of September and is down roughly 175 bps from levels a year ago.
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Merck KGaA gave the index a boost, adding 4.2% after it raised its outlook for full-year earnings and after revenue in the second quarter rose 12%.
There is a full slate of potentially market-moving data out on Thursday, including jobless claims, the Consumer Price Index, existing home sales, the Philadelphia Fed Survey, Leading Indicators, and the flash PMI Manufacturing Index.
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