Index buying will help the stock in coming months, but the whole sector will have to go into overdrive if Glencore is to trade significantly above its current price (defined as more than a 10% gain).
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The early funds tended to replicate an index: buying every share in the FTSE 100, for example.
Cities like San Diego or Tampa are improving in the housing affordability index because buying activity in the lower segment of the market has picked up.
The firmer U.S. dollar index limited buying interest in copper.
As for the authors, they advise buying index funds and simply attempting to capture a market return at the lowest possible trading cost.
In particular, the end of lockups could add two billion shares over the next year will offset some of the index-related buying pressure, said Stuart Thomas, principal at Precidian Investments, which develops ETFs, or funds that can be traded intraday, like a stock.
The stronger U.S. dollar index Thursday did limit buying interest in many commodity markets, including the precious metals.
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The client does not have to spend time and human resources in either buying the index or trying to replicate it.
Successful investors will look at individual companies, but there is also a way to invest broadly in the Japanese economy without buying an index or ETF.
Knotty problems of the same sort arise whenever you add an ethical overlay to what is normally a purely economic decision, like shopping for coffee, paying an electric bill or buying an index fund.
The stronger U.S. dollar index has helped to limit buying interest in copper recently.
The weaker U.S. dollar index Tuesday also prompted fresh buying interest in gold and silver markets.
The weakening U.S. dollar index also lent some fresh buying interest in the precious metals markets Thursday.
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Investors should weigh the risks embedded in alternative indexes as well as the higher cost of these index funds and ETFs before buying into the strategy.
If the latter, you would probably be better off putting two-thirds (or more) of your money in cash investments and buying a straightforward index fund with the balance.
As gold and silver traders await some significant, fresh fundamental news to give them near-term price direction, a stronger U.S. dollar index this week has limited buying interest in the metals.
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In these cases, the ETF becomes riskier than the index it tracks and a lack of commission may not be enough to justify the additional risk over buying a mutual fund that tracks the same index.
The U.S. dollar index was higher Wednesday, which limited buying interest in the precious metals.
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Closing out that trade would have involved buying Yen and selling the index.
Sharply higher crude oil prices and a weaker U.S. dollar index helped to draw investor and trader buying interest to the precious metals Thursday.
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It says that most investors would be better off simply buying a low-cost index fund that holds all the securities in the market rather than using either quantitative models or intuition in an attempt to beat the market.
This may very well be a market for derivatives traders buying options and the CBOE Volatility Index, the VIX.
Those who were buying puts and shorting stock-index futures early in the week were very happy, but the last hour rally Thursday took away many smiles.
The bet against the dollar is buying the PowerShares DB US Dollar Index Down ( UDN), which moves higher tracking a basket of currencies including the euro versus the dollar.
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Firms that amass too much money, too fast, can feel compelled to buy companies at rich multiples, driving performance down so far that investors would be better off buying simple, liquid stock-index funds.
Instead of buying all 500 stocks in the index for you, Fidelity buys an artfully selected subset of 150 or so whose combined results are likely to come very, very close to the results for the whole index.
By contrast, with a traditional index mutual fund, "you're always buying at the net asset value, " Mr. Goldie notes.
The U.S. dollar index is trading higher Monday morning on safe-haven buying interest and more short covering as the EU debt crisis wears on.
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Certainly in the U.S. several major firms have faced sanctions for repeatedly selling over-priced, under-performing, richly commissioned in-house funds where customers would have been far better off going to Vanguard and buying a low-cost, no commission index fund.
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