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[in-deks] / ˈɪn dɛks /




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Broader market index Topix is up 0.5% at 4057.60.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 16, 2026

Investors have increasingly priced in a faster pace of rate hikes, with the overnight index swaps market showing a 65% chance of an additional rate increase in December.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 15, 2026

B. of A. sees the index ending at 7,400 — versus 7,100 previously — as it launched a 12-month target of 7,800.

From MarketWatch Sep. 15, 2026

However, the average workweek index rose by 10 points to 17, suggesting solid growth in employment levels and hours worked.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 15, 2026

Things like the index card full of promises and Aunt Nancy’s chatter.

From "A Bird Will Soar" by Alison Green Myers

European indexes were also in the red at the open.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 15, 2026

September has a reputation for being the worst month of the year for major U.S. equity indexes, and the data back this up.

From MarketWatch Sep. 15, 2026

After a selloff on Wall Street's three main indexes, Asia mostly retreated.

From Barron's Sep. 15, 2026

These funds typically seek to double or even triple the daily returns of underlying assets such as broad market indexes, commodities, cryptocurrencies and single stocks.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 15, 2026

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

From "Kindred" by Octavia Butler

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

From Barron's Sep. 14, 2026

From the conclusions drawn by Bank of America’s proprietary “bubble risk indicator,” analysts remain relatively untroubled about U.S. stock indices and say equities will quickly bounce back from any pullback.

From MarketWatch Sep. 10, 2026

“European indices are more vulnerable to changes in energy prices and the global economic outlook, as they are more cyclical than their international peers,” Swissquote’s Ipek Ozkardeskaya wrote in a research note.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 9, 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

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

It now hits far fewer taxpayers as the threshold matches the federal exemption amount, which is $15 million for 2026 and is indexed for inflation.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 8, 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

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

And that is certainly true when it comes to indexed universal life insurance policies, or IULs.

From MarketWatch Jun. 16, 2026

Before it could go to the Marshall Library, everything had to be indexed.

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

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

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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