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.
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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Do they point with their index finger?
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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.
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.
It has beaten the Russell 1000 index by a full percentage point (with a 3.2% annual return to 2.2% for the index).
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.
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.
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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At the risk of over-interpreting the figures, it is still fair to point out that the overall engagement index - the one highlighted at the top of the survey - has fallen sharply since 2010.
Carlson has delivered a 13% compound annual return since then, a percentage point better than the emerging market index and better than double what you would have earned from the collection of high-grade U.S. paper in the Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund .
The next point of upward chart resistance for the index is around 1440.
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.
Particularly at this point in the cycle, replicating the index closes off entire sets of opportunities to investors, inhibits diversification and may magnify risks.
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The June dollar index fell 0.181 point to 83.78.
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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.
Technicians point to the low volatility of the VIX Index and forecast a sizable market correction around the corner.
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The 30-stock index finished with a 10-point gain, up 0.1% to 14, 548.
EST, the March dollar index was down 0.416 point to 81.375.
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Over the long run, sharp traders getting out in front of these forced portfolio changes have poached at least 0.38 percentage point of annual return away from Russell 2000 index funds, estimates a new study in the Journal of Empirical Finance.
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Case in point: The Barclays Long-term Government Bond Index has gained over 25% this year through November 30th.
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