The Portugal debt downgrade did support the dollar index as it pressured the Euro currency.
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It tracks the same index as MLPI but with 2x leverage juicing its yield to 12.9%.
The euro, I think, comprises like 56% of the dollar index as it is situated right now.
The EU debt crisis is supportive to the dollar index as it has pressured the Euro currency.
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The EU debt crisis has been somewhat supportive to the dollar index as it has pressured the Euro currency.
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But it's handy and many take the index as a barometer for success.
In addition, business executives, labor leaders and other private citizens use the index as a guide in making economic decisions.
The Portugal debt downgrade and overall EU debt crisis situation supported the dollar index as it pressured the Euro currency.
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In fact, retail apparel is the number one ranked industry on my Validea Value Index as we head into 2013.
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The American Institute of Architects (AIA) carries a foreboding message in its new Architecture Billings Index as well.
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On Monday we get new data on the manufacturing sector with the ISM Manufacturing Index as well as the PMI Manufacturing Index.
In fact, Morningstar categorizes more than 60 municipal bond mutual funds as intermediate, of which several use one of the BarCap Municipal intermediate indices or similar index as a performance benchmark.
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The metals index, which tends to be most closely correlated with global industrial production, has gone up by only 12%, much less than the index as a whole, since January 2002.
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European markets gained, highlighted by a 2.2% surge in Italy's FTSE MIB index as the swearing in of Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta over the weekend helped settle the nation's political situation.
But when taking the entire 500 stocks that make up the index as a whole, the multiple that is being applied as an average to all becomes less variable, although critical to assessing prices.
Yet despite the ups and downs of the last decade, prices were up 43% in the New York metropolitan area since 2001, compared with 30% for the 20-city index as a whole during that period.
Using the Goldman Sachs Commodities Index as a proxy for the costs of mining (because it is heavily weighted towards industrial commodities), the real cost of mining gold jumped by nearly 50% during this period, explaining why gold stocks did not provide the leverage that gold investors expected.
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The selling across many of the commodity markets has now turned into a stampede for the exits this week, as the Reuters CRB Index, as well as the commodity ETFs and ETNs are now clearly in a correction phase.
Therefore it expresses the earnings as a percent of the index price rather than the index price as a multiple of the earnings.
The volatility or fear index, as measured by the CBOE Volatility Index (VIX), is over 33, and has remained over 30 since the beginning of August, when the American debt issues and worries about Greece really started to reemerge in the market place.
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Calling style investing with index funds as active management may sound like heresy to some in the index community.
Elsewhere in Asia, Japan's benchmark Nikkei index slipped as the yen gained ground against the dollar.
They view simple, low-cost passive strategies through index funds as bad for their business.
Not having index funds as an option is a risk they will need to seriously consider.
That put Goldman short on the equity volatility index just as those indexes spiked through the roof.
Morgan Emerging Markets Bond Index Global as of Tuesday, April 19, was 305 basis points over Treasurys.
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Then he stared vacantly at his own outstretched index finger as if at some mysterious, misplaced object.
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