Word: indexes
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...hefty dividends provide a cushion when the market falls. From March 11 through last week, the Dow Jones industrial average fell 9.8% while REITs fell just 5.4%.. During the four years through 1996, negative average returns were reported for 16% of stocks in the broad-market Russell 3000 index. That was true of only 2% of REITs...
...what will our criteria be? Is a cult defined by the smallness of the congregation? Then what of those who follow Emerson or Whitman in observing a religion of one? Is it characterized by a lack of ancient scriptures? Then why does an Internet index call the old and established faith of Zoroastrianism a cult? Is it a function of a group's distance from orthodoxy? Then what of Jesus or Buddha or Muhammad--all of them heretics in their...
There is a fundamental explanation for why the cost of higher education is rising at a faster rate than the Consumer Price Index, and it is not irresponsible "gouging." Knowledge is growing at a rate considerably faster than the CPI--at 4% to 8% a year, according to one study. To meet this expansion, colleges like St. Olaf have had to hire more professors, purchase more publications and finance more laboratories to bring this knowledge to the undergraduate student. In addition, the number of publications that disseminate knowledge and their costs have greatly outpaced inflation. Rises in the price...
...debatable whether any 30-stock average can accurately reflect a diverse and changing economy. Most market pros prefer Standard & Poor's 500 index. But John Prestbo, markets editor at the Wall Street Journal, says he is committed...
...years, taking advantage of new efficiencies in residential and food-service operations. But the costs of providing a premium education--everything from complying with new federal regulations to keeping up with changes in automation--have skyrocketed, she says. Even the expense of data has risen sharply. An online index of physics abstracts, for example, costs Penn $50,400 a year; when the index was just a series of books, it cost $7,748. "None of us anticipated it," says Rodin. "When it's electronic, we're charged for every...