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.
The Conference Board, a New York-based business research group, reported Tuesday that its Consumer Confidence Index fell to 37.7 in January, an all-time low going back to the index's inception in 1967.
It is the first time since 1994 for the index to end the year with a loss, and only the third time since it was first compiled in 1984.
The player allows users to play back music on their sites and at the same time, enables exfm to index those music files.
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"That's a very interesting idea that I've wanted to be able to index for a long time, " says Gus Sauter, chief investment officer at Vanguard Group.
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Researchers at the U.K.'s University of East Anglia now are working on a scale they call the "dwell time index" to calculate how much time a planet has orbited in a habitable zone, compared with the time it took life to evolve on Earth.
The client does not have to spend time and human resources in either buying the index or trying to replicate it.
Using that above mentioned circuitry, lightly modified to accommodate RTS output and sufficient power demands, and the addition of a simple python script to translate that fluctuating index into real-time ticks, Ames was able to breath new life into an antiquated piece of Americana.
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There is little doubt that the boys had loaded up their computer toys with sell programs each time either index managed to spend a few minutes across the line.
The other keys to fast response time are a very flexible index which can be built when the data is imported or later.
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That's not much, but in places like Miami, Phoenix and Las Vegas, homes have lost about a quarter of their value in the same amount of time, according to the Case-Shiller index.
Brazil joined the investment grade club in April and May 2008, sending the local Bovespa stock index to an all time high before profit taking took it lower in the summer of 2008.
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The weekly pattern of lower highs and lower lows in the dollar index will take some time to reverse, so those trying to pick a bottom in the dollar should be very careful.
Third, a fixed allocation to different index funds beats trying to time the markets and always has.
If you agree and you also feel that the U.S. cannot sustain its recent momentum, now is a great time to create your own globally diversified portfolio of index funds.
If the net value of all active management is less than zero, then the logical choice is to do all index funds, all the time.
Now compare that to Shanghai in the same time, Shanghai's benchmark composite index rose 130 percent.
The overall security index score rose to an all-time high and by more than 17 percent compared to results taken six months before, prior to the Yemeni event.
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Perhaps it is time Wall Street begins paying attention to Main Street whose consumer confidence index this week dropped by its widest margin month-to-month since August of 2011.
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Similarly, if you don't have the time to read through earnings conference-call transcripts, consider using an index fund.
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Meanwhile, small-capitalization stocks have run up 36% since early October, pushing the Russell 2000 small-cap index to within 4% of the all-time high that it hit last April.
In America the Institute for Supply Management's manufacturing index fell in June to below 50, for the first time in almost three years (see chart).
Carl Delfeld, editor Chartwell Global ETF Report, says one way to play Malaysia is with iShares MSCI Malaysia Index, a long-time favorite of his.
But while the Hang Seng has recovered to within 30% of its August 1997 all-time high, the red chip index is still 57% off its peak.
Germany's DAX 30 index climbed 0.7% to finish at an all-time high.
Bargain hunters stepped in to buy the dip in gold prices at the same time the U.S. dollar index sold off from higher levels seen earlier in the day.
By the time of the next VIX reading, Sept. 17, the index spiked to 41.8, and it topped out at 43.7 on Sept. 20, right around when the market experienced its bottom for the year.
Some of these have a longer lead time relative to economic activity than others, so the firm publishes both a longer leading index, which signals changes in activity about a year in advance, and a shorter leading index, which looks six months ahead.
Splunk provides the infrastructure to collect, index, monitor, and analyze massive streams of data in real time.
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All that will weigh heavily on the bourse, and, current bargains aside, no one expects the blue-chip Hang Seng Index to recover its August record closing high of 16, 673 any time soon.
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