It has beaten the Russell 1000 index by a full percentage point (with a 3.2% annual return to 2.2% for the index).
Looking at the investment world, most hedge fund and mutual fund managers could point to index-crushing returns if the crystal-clear notion of hindsight were an input.
Prior to that time, all index funds to that point were beta-seeking products that followed the risk and return of a broad market, less a small fee.
Mom and Pop investors wait some more, only to watch the market-index arrows continue to point up, and then continue to sit and wait, still worried they are missing their chance.
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Price increases also picked-up by a full percentage point to an index value of 56.5.
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The minimum purchase amounts are one-10th as much, because the SPDR trades for 10 cents per point on the index.
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Already driving WMT suppliers to improve performance, in the future the index could appear on a point-of-sale label for products.
The National Federation of Independent Business's small-business optimism index dropped 0.2 point to 91.2 last month following a steep 3-point drop in June.
The June dollar index fell 0.181 point to 83.78.
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Do they point with their index finger?
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The December dollar index was up 0.091 point at 79.15 as of 12:02 p.m.
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The March dollar index was up 0.65 point to 80.06 and has been as high as 80.225.
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They are likely to outdo similarly invested index funds by half a percentage point or so per year.
The 30-stock index finished with a 10-point gain, up 0.1% to 14, 548.
The equation of the trend line shows that every point on the freedom index was worth 0.36% annual return over the past year.
The equation of the trend line shows that every point on the freedom index was worth 0.33% annual return over the past year.
The equation of the trend line shows that every point on the freedom index was worth 0.80% annual return over the past 3 years.
EST, the March dollar index was down 0.416 point to 81.375.
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Each attempt at a rally has petered out at a level below previous peaks, and with Thursday's nearly six-point decline in the index, it has now added a pattern of lower lows to its bearish repertoire.
At that point, the Bangkok SET index was more than 30% higher than it is now.
Even with all the work NetFlix has done in 2012, their score moved just one point last year on the index.
Data from the Transfer Price Index (TPI) helps illustrate this point.
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The second worst year was the 2002 downturn, but even then the index was in positive territory at this point, up just 2%.
The fund gained 1.32% Monday, outperforming its benchmark, the Lehman Brothers U.S. Aggregate Index, by 0.51 percentage point, according to Chicago investment-research firm Morningstar Inc.
And the reason I ask this question is, I was reading earlier today that the consumer confidence index is down almost to the lowest point this year in the last September reading.
Messrs Frey and Stutzer find that a one-point increase in this democracy index, after stripping out the effects of the other variables, increases the share of people who say they are very happy by 2.7 percentage points.
This was the first three hundred-point drop for the blue chip index in almost a year.
The London stockmarket's benchmark index, the FTSE 100, at one point dropped more than 2.2% before recovering during the afternoon.
The consumer price index reading this week may show results that point to price increases at the store and dealer levels.
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