If you invest in single asset class index funds like the Vanguard Total US Stock Market index or the Spartan International Index at Fidelity, you can easily compare the performance of your individual holdings to the market index they track.
Nick Leeson told everyone he was doing pure arbitrage: in his case between futures contracts on the Nikkei (the Japanese stock market index) and the Nikkei itself.
Vanguard would place the Muchmores firmly in its index funds, from the Short-Term Bond Index (charging 0.2% of assets per year) to the Total Stock Market Index (0.2%), a Wilshire 5000 tracker.
To show this, I created and rebalanced several portfolios using the Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund Admiral Shares (VTSAX) and the Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund Admiral Shares (VBTLX).
The Greek stock market index, Athex, is off 80 percent from its high made as recently as 2008.
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Rate cuts ding already low rates on savings accounts, and the broad stock market index is down 36% so far this year.
Peugeot, a founding member of the main French stock market index, the Cac-40, was demoted last year as a result of its tumbling share price.
Nearly one-third of Jacobs' portfolio is in the Vanguard Total Stock Market Index ( VTSMX) , with the rest split among small- and mid-caps, including Baron Small Cap ( BSCFX) , Berger Mid Cap Value ( BEMVX) and Artisan Mid Cap Value ( ARTQX) .
If you want to play it safe, one smart choice would be to buy the Vanguard Total World Stock Index Fund, which, as the name implies, tracks an index of the global stock market.
Serious chart damage has occurred in the stock market recently and the stock index bears do have the solid near-term technical advantage.
Simple: Because the rise and fall of the Dow isn't a story about the stock market, but about the index itself.
Mr. Bogle believes that a simple portfolio including only two funds, the Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and Total Bond Market Index Fund would be sufficient for many investors.
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The SAR says it bought blue chips to foil speculators, who it believes were attacking the Hong Kong dollar so the Hang Seng stock market index would fall (they supposedly placed huge bets on a plunging Hang Seng).
As Thaksin's critics cheered that the petition had been accepted, the stock market suffered, with the composite index falling nearly 2% in afternoon trading.
But not the U.S equity market, with the VIX (the Volatility Index, a measure gauging future anticipated stock market volatility) trading at an astonishingly low level.
For comparison, the Dow Jones Industrial Average stock market index is up 6.37% for the first six months of 2011.
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Just two index funds like the Vanguard Total Stock Market and Total International Stock Index provide effective, economical, tax efficient global equity diversification.
The German stock market, as measured by the DAX index, soared on Friday by 4% and Italian stocks climbed by more than 6%.
Indexed options work similarly to traditional stock options, with one exception: Rather than having the exercise price fixed at the market price on the date of grant, the exercise price varies based on the change in an appropriate stock market index, e.g.
The Mexican stock market has performed well, with the benchmark IPC index up nearly 13% in 2012 and more than 20% in the last year.
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True, the U.S. got a jolt in late October when a sharp fall in the Hong Kong stock market sparked a big plunge in the Dow Jones index.
For each stock, StarMine scores the analyst based on the level of recommendation (strong buy, buy, hold, sell or strong sell) and the performance of the stock relative to a market-cap-weighted index of the stocks in the same industry.
Now take a look at the chart, which plots a foreign exchange rate along with a price index for the global stock market.
The DOW Jones is a stock market index made up of 65 major stocks.
The CAC-40, the blue-chip French stock market index, which includes BNP, fell 2.2%.
Slim-controlled companies, most of them cobbled together into two main holding companies, Grupo Carso and Grupo Financiero Inbursa, account for half of the combined market cap of Mexico's benchmark stock index, the 35-stock Indice de Precios y Cotizaciones.
China also may soon allow QFII license holders to open new yuan-denominated onshore bank accounts, in addition to their sole existing accounts under the QFII program, that are designated for investment in China's nascent stock index futures market, the people said.
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In brief, the theory posits that when the Dow Jones Transportation Index diverges from the Dow Jones Industrial Index, it is a negative sign for future stock market returns.
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