In 2012, the Morgan Stanley Commodity Related Index only increased 1.4 percent.
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The three year returns were very good for the global markets but the MSCI EAFE index was only up 7.65% while the emerging markets index was up 20.07%.
Even now, the Tokyo index is only about half what it was in 1990.
His conclusion: from 1998-2010 the index returned only 2.1% annualized on a money-weighted basis, not 7.3%.
Of the 500 companies in the index, only 133 had complete 10 year dividend data.
Ironically, the U.S. dollar index is only trading slightly lower and U.S. Treasuries are actually higher on the news.
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The MSCI Emerging Markets Index is only about a half of a standard deviation from its mean over the same time frame.
Of the seven currencies that make up the Federal Reserve's major-currency index, only one (the Australian dollar) is within 10% of its fair value.
Of the 20 cities tracked by the Case-Shiller index, only New York saw a moderate fall in house prices since a year earlier, down 1.2%.
In just the seven years from 1999 to 2006 there were 109 changes in the stocks that comprise the Nasdaq 100, an index that only contains 100 stocks.
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The Dow Jones index fared only slightly better on Friday as it briefly shed as much as 200 points, ending trading with a 150 points loss at 10, 626.
He noted that in Zimbabwe, where the stock market has collapsed, a portfolio made up all of the stocks in its index would only buy three eggs at the current price in that country.
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The Kauffman Index is only a piece of the puzzle, but its mix of high-detail demographic information and high-level, multi-year trajectory evidence provide an important, unique and timely perspective on entrepreneurship in the United States.
That pushed the percent of Index loans with only incurrence test to a record 30%.
Dow Transports is the only index above weekly and monthly pivots at 4884 and 4859.
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The recent gains in the Baltic Index will likely only amplify this interest.
Figure 1 shows that portfolios using actively-managed funds beat the all index fund portfolio only 18 percent of the time.
Morningstar Principia lists nearly 2, 000 index funds but only a few dozen funds are truly of interest to a purely passive fund investor.
The index has fallen only modestly since the start of this year, because the stronger dollar and lower share prices have offset lower short-term interest rates.
We have had small increases each week since October 15, and the annualized growth rate of the index is now only -3.1%, having increased for 12 weeks.
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In another sign the market was in a defensive mode, the Dow Jones Utility Index was the only major barometer to move higher, gaining 3.07 points to 433.44.
Academic studies discussed in The Power of Passive Investing find that portfolios holding only index funds beat portfolios holding actively-managed funds 95 percent of the time over a 10-year period.
Vanguard's tracks the Lehman one- to five-year Bond Index, which contains only 44% U.S. Treasuries.
Vanguard announced earlier this year that its Vanguard 500 Index ETF will charge only a .05% fee.
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In the slacker jobs market of the north-east, the index was up by only 2.6%, compared with 2.5% in 1996.
The only legitimate purpose of program-trading is in index arbitrage, which was originally its only activity.
In that period the Russell 2000 index of small companies averaged only a 12% return.
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