Word: indexation
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Wall Street's lead, they anticipate it: stocks in parts of Asia dropped even before New York awoke last Monday, previewing the bloodbath that was to come in the U.S. Here's the buzz (and gloom) from five global financial centers - along with the drop in their main stock index between the moment before opening on Monday and the close of trading three days later...
...surface. Mumbai is India's financial capital, but it's also the center of the country's booming fashion industry and contemporary-arts community. Those three worlds feed each other here, just as they do in London, Tokyo and New York. As the markets plunge - the main Mumbai index, the Sensex, is down 36% since January - many of Mumbai's wealthy financiers are beginning to spend less in the city's galleries and luxury boutiques. "I'm extremely worried," says Jai Bhandarkar, owner of an art gallery in Colaba, one of Mumbai's toniest neighborhoods. "The spending power...
Asian markets got pummeled on Tuesday as investors dumped stocks across the region in the wake of Wall Street's worst decline in seven years. Japan's benchmark Nikkei stock market index closed down nearly 5%, Hong Kong's Hang Seng index fell 5.4%, and Seoul's KOSPI index dropped 6.1%. In Taiwan, where the main index slumped 4.9%, the government encouraged banks and state funds to buy shares to support the market...
...signs point to an ugly day in Asian markets in the wake of Wall Street's worst decline in seven years. Japan's benchmark Nikkei stock market index plummeted 4.6% in early trading, Hong Kong's Hang Seng index fell 6.5%, and Seoul's KOSPI index dropped...
...these holdings jumped 35.8 percent in Harvard’s last fiscal year. While the returns fell far short of last year’s exceptional 23 percent growth, the gains still compare favorably given that they come during a bear market that has seen the S&P 500 index, a standard baseline for stock-market performance, drop more than 13 percent over the same period. The 8.6 percent gain puts Harvard comfortably in the top 5 percent of peer investment groups as measured by the Trust Universe Comparison Service and far outpaces the group’s median return...