Participants are also learning that conjuring up new indexes to hedge against risk is not always foolproof or risk free.
Although everyone recognizes the country's fiscal hole, investors have embraced Japanese equities, pushing up their indexes by 25% in 2005.
Monetary errors don't show up in indexes for at least a year.
Earnings are coming up as the indexes dance around their all-time highs.
Thursday brought us another manic episode, propelling the major indexes up nearly 3% and the Dow past 10, 000 again, for no obvious reason.
Since that signals continued demand from American and European customers, the news propelled the major U.S. stock indexes up on Thursday right from the open.
All three major U.S. equity indexes were up on speculation a deal is in sight.
All three indexes closed up Friday as economic data pointed to improvements in U.S. exports and consumer confidence.
Broad stock market indexes are up nearly 50% from their bottom as corporate earnings have handily beaten estimates.
In Europe, major indexes are up, on the back of strong economic news.
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India ETFs mostly make investments in indexes made up of Indian stocks.
U.S. stock indexes moved up from their daily lows by afternoon trading Tuesday, which boosted the commodity markets and in turn gave a modest upside push to gold and silver.
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If consumer spending holds up and the sentiment indexes aren't off much at all, there is now a broad spectrum of very reasonably priced stocks after declines ranging from 30% to 50%.
Today, the first day of October 2012, the market is way up with the all three market indexes trading higher, led by the Dow which so far at this writing is up more than 150 points.
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Home prices rose 1.3% in April, according to both the 10-city and 20-city composites that make up the Case-Shiller indexes.
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He brought up the idea that other indexes should be reviewed, in light of the widespread manipulation of the Libor rate.
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It helped give resilience to the rally in stocks that has lasted 2 years since March, 2009 and caused a doubling up of the stock market indexes at their fastest pace in 75 years.
There are other positive signs for the strength in indexes, said John Person, president, NationalFutures.com, such as volume in the indexes is higher on up days and market breadth is also positive.
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This news built upon improving investor risk appetite after the U.S. stock indexes on Tuesday closed well up from their daily lows.
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The Fed was largely oblivious of its handiwork because price indexes weren't shooting up as they did during the Great Inflation of the 1970s.
While Singapore's official government residential-property indexes show that prices edged up in the city-state last quarter from the quarter before, property consulting company CBRE Group Inc.
But with the Dow having spiked up a big 4.7% in just the last three days, a move that could have taken a couple of weeks, the major market indexes have already rallied back up to their 21-day moving averages, alleviating at least that short-term oversold condition.
Price indexes also haven't kept up with changes in what consumers buy and when and where they shop.
This prolonged and probably inadvertent monetary tightness is showing up in both the consumer and producer price indexes.
Broad stock market indexes through the end of Wednesday were up more than 16% for the year.
But because of the way such indexes are constructed, the portfolios end up with some peculiar weightings.
The rebound in home prices is picking up steam, with the Case Shiller home price indexes growing at their fastest pace since mid-2006 in a year-over-year basis.
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Also technically, the unusual spike-up of the last five days has the major indexes already short-term overbought above their 21-day moving averages, the opposite of their short-term oversold condition two weeks ago.
By stark comparison, the U.S. market, although volatile in recent sessions, has seen each triple-digit down day followed by a triple-digit up day, keeping U.S. stock indexes within a percent or two of their rally and bull market highs.
The yellow metal did back well off the early session high as the U.S. dollar index moved up from its low and U.S. stock indexes weakened.
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