Word: indexed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...YORK: Bloodied and bowed but hopefully bottomed-out, tech stocks got a reprieve Friday as traders went bargain-hunting amid the ruins of NASDAQ's week. The index was up 44 points in early afternoon after four-day losses of 200 points, or more that 12 percent. "It's a bounce-back from a horrible week," says FORTUNE writer Nelson Schwartz. "A lot of the earnings reports that came out of the sector were overly optimistic. But even so, a lot of people on the floor were surprised at the amount of hemorrhaging that went...
...Harper's Index this month reports that when his team wins, the average male sports fan's testosterone level increases by 20 percent...
Although Harvard's investments outperformed 95percent of all institutional funds, the endowmentunderperformed the Standard and Poor's 500 index,which rose 28.6 percent. HMC outperformed the DowJones Industrial Average, which rose 18.2 percentduring Harvard's fiscal year...
...lately the Generals have come under attack for being too richly priced relative to their earnings and other benchmarks of value. And they got that way, in large part, precisely because they belong to the most popular index and simply got floated higher and higher on a tide of investor cash. Just this week Procter & Gamble, a charter member of the S&P 500, announced that it could not meet its growth targets. Coca-Cola too has stumbled on slower overseas growth. And the computerized "sell programs" have made the Generals ride a roller coaster of late...
...stocks will reward the patient, as they always have before when they were this much cheaper than the large caps. If you don't have time to research individual companies, consider a solid small-cap fund like Babson Enterprise II or Berger Small Cap Value, or a Russell 2000 index fund, which gathers the small-cap castoffs in a neat bundle. Or buy a fund based on the Wilshire 5000 index, which includes both large- and small-cap stocks. Both types are sold by fund companies like Vanguard and Fidelity. But do me a favor, and do one for yourself...