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[in-deks] / ˈɪn dɛks /




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All companies are weighted equally in that index, which means no domination by a single name or group of stocks.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026

The potential merger -- which some have dubbed "Elon Inc." -- boosted shares of both companies on Wednesday, lifting Musk's wealth back near $1 trillion at $989 billion, according to Forbes' real-time billionaires index.

From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026

Among the best performers on Japan’s benchmark index, Mitsui Kinzoku climbs 7.5%, Ibiden gains 5.9%, and JX Advanced Metals adds 5.6%.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

The accounts have contribution limits and at the outset were to be invested in index funds.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2026

And even though Axel is getting used to the mystery of Frank being gone, his heart quivers now the same as it had the day he found the index card listing all those promises.

From "A Bird Will Soar" by Alison Green Myers

CME plans to list two contracts representing one month’s worth of rent for Nvidia chips, one for the H100 and another for the B200, based on Silicon Data’s indexes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

It is considering reclassifying Indonesia as a "standalone market", which could force investment funds tracking the MSCI's emerging market indexes to sell Indonesian holdings.

From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026

Li is the 40-year-old founder of Silicon Data, a startup that compiles indexes tracking the rental prices of Nvidia chips.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

Purchasing managers’ indexes for the U.S. and Europe will offer insights into business sentiment and a further clue on future interest-rate rises.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

The warden’s library is a big dark room with heavy red drapes drawn closed and floor-to-ceiling books—the kind of official volumes with thick indexes Natalie likes.

From "Al Capone Does My Shirts" by Gennifer Choldenko

However, that exposure will grow if Anthropic goes public because its shares would become included in several stock indices, including the Russell 3000, which New York City tracks for its own investments.

From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026

Forest fires have blanketed parts of the country as well as neighbouring Malaysia and Singapore in toxic smog, pushing air quality indices into "unhealthy" territory.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

"Any change in the AI trade will have big ramifications for US indices," she warned.

From Barron's ● Sep. 14, 2026

Huijin, the state-investment arm that acts as China’s plunge-protection team, stepped back into the market last week, buying broad-based exchange-traded funds tied to stock indices to stabilize the market.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026

The Latin for indices and tokens is signa or indicia; the French is preuves.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

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

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026

Educational materials for an indexed annuity sold by Delaware Life, for instance, show a premium of $100,000 growing to $2.7 million over the next 21 years.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026

And this brings us to the call of the day from Rene Reyna, head of thematic and specialty product strategy for Invesco’s exchange-traded fund and indexed strategies.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 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

The index fund is a huge improvement over much of what it replaced; Vanguard estimates indexing has saved private investors $570 billion in fund management fees just since 2000.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026

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

Also until 2020, for retail investors to buy DFA’s funds they had to go through fee-charging advisors, which would seem to violate the code of indexing.

From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026

But, he notes, the “average pop has gone down since then even though indexing has increased.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 14, 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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