Word: indexation
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...economy can produce in a year. Much of the increase in debt was used to invest in real estate. The result was a bubble; at its peak, average U.S. house prices were rising at 20% a year. Then - as bubbles always do - it burst. The S&P Case-Shiller index of house prices in 20 cities has been falling since February 2007. And the decline is accelerating. In June prices were down 16% compared with a year earlier. In some cities - like Phoenix and Miami - they have fallen by as much as a third from their peaks. The U.S. real...
...industrial average declined 2% - though in fact the market had been slipping since early September. On "Black Monday" (Oct. 28), it plunged 13%, the next day a further 12%. Over the next three years, the U.S. stock market declined a staggering 89%, reaching its nadir in July 1932. The index did not regain its 1929 peak until...
...this year, as investors and traders reacted to Congress's rejection of the bailout plan presented by Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, the stock market sell-off was dramatic: the Dow fell nearly 7% that day, a one-day drop that has been matched only 17 times since the index's birth in 1896. From its peak last October, the Dow has fallen more than...
...Then again, it's hard to feel like you've dodged a bullet when you are already riddled with holes. Asian stocks have absorbed severe losses this year - The MSCI Asia-Pacific Index is down nearly 30% in 2008, while China's Shanghai market is down 60% from it's January high (The Dow is down 20% this year). Asian shares already took a hit after the rescue package failed to pass over the weekend, with shares in Hong Kong and Tokyo plunging by 5.5% and 5% respectively on Sept. 29. "It's pretty terrible already," Kowalcyzk says...
...Exchange Commission on certain types of shorts. Unlike some other investment clubs, Acumen seeks more than just practice from their relatively modest foray into the world of financial management: they hope to make a profit. Modis said that although the fund has exceeded the performance of their benchmark index, the S&P 500, they have maintained a conservative and cool-headed approach to money management. “I think it’s really important to make sure that you don’t think you have an edge when you really don?...