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[in-deks] / ˈɪn dɛks /




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Kenvue is being acquired and will therefore depart the index.

From Barron's ● Oct. 31, 2026

The official manufacturing purchasing managers index fell to 49.3 in October, down from 50.1 in September, said the National Bureau of Statistics on Saturday.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2026

Nvidia’s weight in the tech index promptly shot up to about 21%, Microsoft remained about the same and Apple fell to less than 5%.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

Inflation, as measured by the Fed’s favored personal-consumption-expenditure price index, was running at a 3.6% annual rate in September.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026

“Yes. Their index and cataloging operations are most impressive.”

From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin

Even if an employee did take an interest and pick their own investments, they’d have only about 15-30 choices of mutual funds, most of which would align to broad-market indexes or sectors.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2026

Home prices as measured by national indexes, such as Case-Shiller or the National Association of Realtors, still show growth because they look backward, Anthony Smith, a senior economist at Realtor.com, told MarketWatch.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 28, 2026

Japan’s Nikkei 225 added 1.1%, while stock indexes gained in Hong Kong and Shanghai, too.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

Asian indexes were mixed Monday, as investors responded to Friday’s surge in oil prices and AI names remained under pressure.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026

I found some books on experimental psychology and leafed through them slowly, then checked the indexes and bibliographies.

From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok

India's benchmark equity indices Sensex and Nifty fell with investors weighing the implications of higher borrowing costs for consumption and corporate investment.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

Major indices rose after the Labor Department said the U.S. added just 29,000 jobs in September, well short of expectations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

Remarkably, just 2% of global equity market indices are trading above both their 50-day and 200-day moving averages, down from 66% a week ago, the strategists find.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026

“Strong external demand, combined with continued implementation of existing investment and industrial-upgrading policies, may support manufacturing activity. But persistently weak domestic demand is likely to keep both indices below the 50 threshold.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

Activities or illnesses whose safety indices are greater than 6 should be considered quite safe, being equivalent to less than one chance in a million per year.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos

Her son-in-law helped her put $40,000 into an Aviva indexed annuity.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026

By the researchers’ estimate, growth in their private-credit investments accounts for all the increase in that indexed annuity share.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026

“Rates were going up, but they indexed really close to inflation.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026

Private-asset managers have used indexed annuities to gather household savings and power the rise of their private lending business.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026

The remaining papers had to be “grouped, described, labeled, indexed, and reverently dispatched to their sealed tombs in the government vaults.”

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield

As the search indexing of the chat logs is no longer occurring, it is likely Anthropic used available tools to quickly block the chat log links from search results.

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026

“The problem with indexing is that a true market portfolio doesn’t exist,” Booth says.

From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026

If that’s too ambitious, they could at least raise or eliminate the cap on the capital-gains exemption on the sale of a primary residence, plus indexing it for inflation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026

Thanks to the visionary brilliance of Vanguard founder Jack Bogle and decades of strong returns, indexing is eating more and more of the market each year.

From Slate ● Jun. 5, 2026

Instead she stayed put and kept indexing the collection, determined to preserve William’s place in history.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield


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