Word: indexes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...expect for our current financial growth. The target for neutrality is about four percent—that’s reasonable.” Stocks surged after the Fed announcement. The Dow Jones industrial average closed up 2.5 percent at 13,739.39 and the Standard & Poor’s index of 500 stocks closed up nearly 3 percent at 1,519.78. —Staff writer Maxwell L. Child can be reached at mchild@fas.harvard.edu...
Elberse used the index to examine whether a star’s addition to a cast affected the movie’s stock value...
...proved correct at times. Hemlines were short in the Roaring Twenties but fell before the 1929 stock-market crash. In the '60s miniskirts were en vogue, and stocks rose. In the summer of 2006, designers showed short hems for spring, and in May the Standard & Poor's 500 index hit a seven-year high...
...Source: S&P/Case-Shiller U.S. National Home Price Index...
After publishing a best-selling critique of the stock bubble, Irrational Exuberance, just as the market peaked in March 2000, Shiller set to work adding a chapter on real estate for the second edition. As part of that effort, he cobbled together an inflation-adjusted index of home prices going back to 1890, which showed that a) the price runup from 1997 to 2006 was by far the biggest on record and b) home prices can fall for decades. Put those two together, Shiller argues, and it's at least possible that we're due for an epic decline...