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[in-deks] / ˈɪn dɛks /




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South Korea’s Kospi rose 3.1%, Japan’s Nikkei Stock Average climbed 1.8%, and Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 index added 0.4%.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 7, 2026

The fire severity is "exceptional", the highest level on the index, in some parts of London including Heathrow, as well as on the Essex and Suffolk coasts.

From BBC Sep. 5, 2026

When arguing with the prime minister, Mr. Gallant waved his right hand with thumb and index finger extended for emphasis, his eyes lit up with a rare fire.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 4, 2026

The index is getting three new members this month.

From Barron's Sep. 4, 2026

I point down the line with both index fingers and slide next to Ben-Ben.

From "A High Five for Glenn Burke" by Phil Bildner

Artificial intelligence-related stocks led European indexes higher, with ASML, the continent’s most valuable company, adding 1.6%.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 4, 2026

All three main indexes on Wall Street ended well up, with the Dow and Nasdaq adding more than one percent.

From Barron's Sep. 4, 2026

Asian stock indexes largely rose, with technology names benefiting from Broadcom’s bullish outlook for chip sales, while European stocks were little moved in early trade.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 3, 2026

Then again, MSCI, another major provider of indexes tracked by exchange-traded funds, still considers Poland an emerging market.

From MarketWatch Sep. 3, 2026

We checked indexes and even leafed through some of the books page by page to be sure.

From "Kindred" by Octavia Butler

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

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

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

After stumbling, the Nasdaq accelerated, with its gain in Bespoke’s indexed series reaching 592.5% in March 2000.

From MarketWatch Jul. 31, 2026

"We give site owners clear controls to decide whether pages can be crawled or indexed, and we always respect those directives."

From BBC Jul. 27, 2026

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

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

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

Lastly, investors should want to avoid the implementation costs associated with the indexing approach that many equal-weighted and quality-focused strategies tend to use.

From MarketWatch Jun. 23, 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

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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