You wind up with a certain percentage of your money in Cisco or Kmart if that's in the index, no matter how overpriced it is.
We purge those from our Index that are no longer included in the magazine.
For any books scanned at libraries, publishers may simply choose not to display these books within Google's index--no questions asked.
The American Customer Satisfaction Index rated Sprint No. 1 among all national carriers and most improved in customer satisfaction across all industries during the last four years.
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The American Customer Satisfaction Index rated Sprint No. 1 among all national carriers in customer satisfaction and most improved, across all 47 industries, during the last four years.
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If the prices of clothes rise very sharply, then come back down to where they were, you might think that an inflation index should show no overall change.
Recently, the American Customer Satisfaction Index ranked Sprint No. 1 among all national carriers and most improved in customer satisfaction, across all 47 industries, during the last four years.
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Additionally, the 2012 American Customer Satisfaction Index ranked Sprint No. 1 among all national carriers in customer satisfaction and most improved, across all 47 industries, during the last four years.
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One insidious aspect of the decline in lending standards is that, although anyone can assess interest rate levels by glancing in the newspaper or on the Internet, there is no index of lending standards that tells people where lending standards are at the moment compared with historical norms.
Acquisition cost vs. a traditional index mutual fund is no longer a consideration.
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Nearly 95% of folks we polled in our Customer Loyalty Engagement Index indicated they had no intentions of cutting back on their vacations.
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The public is sitting in passive index ETFs now, no need to trade or to have a broker or mutual fund manager buying and selling things on their behalf.
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No price index for private islands exists, but experts say prices have come down anywhere from 20 percent to 70 percent depending on whom you ask, and on which islands you are considering.
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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Liken it to the difference between a no-load index fund and an index ETF.
No matter which index you look at, the story remains the same: Stocks have climbed because corporate profits and cash flow are healthy.
Dull but highly tax-efficient and extremely low cost: This no-load index fund attempts to mimic the Wilshire 5000 by investing in large, mid and small caps.
My picks declined an average 6% by year-end and would have left you 3% poorer than a hypothetical investor putting the same money at the same dates into a no-load index fund.
No benchmark or index guides our decision making.
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For example, the weekly leading index fell sharply in 1987 but no recession was called.
For instance, 23% of the stocks that were in the DJIA in 1999 were no longer in that index by 2004, just five years later.
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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.
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From there you can link to news on a specific ADR or choose to compare a stock price chart to one of a number of indexes (unfortunately, there's no emerging-market index).
Our own Forbes Capital Hospitality Index had it lower, at No. 21, and the "Economic Freedom of the World" report just out from the Cato (nyse: CTR - news - people ) and Fraser institutes of North America ranks it No. 19.
Whichever theory you think is right, with the No Glass Ceilings motif index, which returned 10.1% year to date, you get a litmus test for this tectonic sociological shift occurring in our society and economy through the progress of 19 companies currently headed by female chief executives.
Most asset classes are available in an index fund or ETF so there is no need for active funds.
But it is no accident that these new index funds are being introduced only after their strategies have seen their best days.
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