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[in-deks] / ˈɪn dɛks /




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The stock had previously fallen more than 14 percent, to 4.73 euros, against a wider SBF index down 1.5 percent.

From Barron's Jul. 23, 2026

Moscow’s main stock index has lost nearly one-quarter of its value so far this year, and last week sank to its lowest level since October 2022.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 23, 2026

The S&P 500 was down 0.1%, and the Nasdaq Composite index slipped 0.6%.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 22, 2026

Now it’s expected to slow to 3.7% when the June PCE index is published next week.

From MarketWatch Jul. 22, 2026

“Dear me, an index would have come in useful here . . . cannibals, cannibals . . . I see there are quite a few mentions, but nothing particularly about fire. . . .”

From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood

Major stock indexes fell Thursday as investors digested Alphabet and Tesla earnings.

From MarketWatch Jul. 23, 2026

STMicroelectronics tumbled over 15% after earnings, dragging indexes in France and Italy.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 23, 2026

“You have a combination of a significant number of small-cap companies in indexes that don’t make money, some with business models that are moonshots.”

From MarketWatch Jul. 22, 2026

U.S. stock futures jumped in early European trade as artificial-intelligence stocks rode a fresh wave of optimism, buoying indexes in Asia and Europe.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 21, 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

Temperatures climbed into the 90s with heat indices exceeding 100 degrees, forcing organizers to scale back outdoor programming, expand cooling stations and urge visitors to take frequent breaks.

From Salon Jul. 4, 2026

A massive tech selloff roiled Korean stock indices over the past month, as the severity of wartime shortages became clear.

From Slate Jul. 2, 2026

Bacup has the highest levels of deprivation in the Rossendale Valley according to English indices of deprivation 2025, external statistics.

From BBC Jun. 29, 2026

Earnings are the principal driver behind the breathtaking rallies achieved by Korean and Taiwanese benchmark indices in 2026, and Goldman Sachs thinks the market is still underestimating the longevity of the chip cycle.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 3, 2026

He's only in the door three seconds before he starts spouting some theory about spectral analysis and the refractive indices of protein substances, and he's carrying a big box full of books and papers.

From "Things Not Seen" by Andrew Clements

Vanguard will manage the indexed equity and indexed and active fixed-income sleeves in the new all-markets fund.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 22, 2026

Three hundred years later, Gray’s Anatomy by Henry Gray reinforced the impression that the body had finally been catalogued, indexed and neatly organized – a system mapped and fully explained.

From Science Daily Jun. 21, 2026

He’s tried Claude Code before but prefers Cursor’s indexed codebase, which allows users to query a multi-file project in natural language and find relevant code.

From MarketWatch Jun. 19, 2026

SpaceX is also going into the Nasdaq-100 in a few days, which will generate billions of dollars in passive buying by funds indexed to the tech-heavy index.

From Barron's Jun. 14, 2026

A simple task be-cause Brother Leon insisted that all kinds of cross- indexed lists be kept so that you could tell at a glance just where students stood.

From "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier

One such strategy, direct indexing, involves buying individual securities that track the performance of an index—such as the S&P 500 or the Schwab 1000—while also generating losses that can be used to reduce capital-gains taxes.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 10, 2026

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

From Barron's Jun. 18, 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

MarketWatch: Is buy-and-hold indexing still a viable strategy, or has something fundamentally changed?

From MarketWatch May 26, 2026

By late 1966, Elizebeth and William were spending several hours a day indexing their library, at least when they were well enough.

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




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