Sentences with phrase «average index bear»

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Since 1946, the stretches when world's most watched index grows (e.g., between corrections and bear markets) have averaged 18 months.

Although U.S. equity indices are hovering near all - time highs, the average stock in the Russell 3000 - which covers 98 % of the investable market - is already in «bear market» territory.

Generally, a bear market happens when major indexes like the S&P 500, which tracks the performance of 500 companies» stocks, and the Dow Jones industrial average, which follows 30 of the largest stocks, drop by 20 percent or more from a peak and stay that low for at least two months.

Does the fact that the average stock is already in a bear market mean the indices have to catch up and move lower?

Over the past 5 years, still with no 20 % bear market completed, the total return of the S&P 500 Index has averaged 7.5 % annually.

Based upon the above, and assuming 2014 may replicate the average performance of the 2000 and 2008 bear markets, the Dow Index could conceivably decline to about 12300 by yearend (2014).

And if we assume the DOW Index is indeed peaking, and that the subsequent bear market might be the average decline of the last two bear markets in magnitude and time duration, then the DOW Index could conceivably drop to 9000 by the Ides of March of 2016.

In all, the Dow Jones Industrial Average, which has about quadrupled since the bear market lows of early 2009, pushed ahead by more than 25 % in the just - ended 12 months, with the S&P 500 Index close behind with a full - year advance of about 20 %.

The crisis lasted through the 1990 bear market (which brought the Value Line index down to its 1987 low and cut the Transportation Average in half) and abated by mid-1993, when the RTC had liquidated or paid off the debts of 90 % of the failed institutions it had taken over.

To investigate, we compare SACEMS monthly performance statistics when the S&P 500 Index at the previous monthly close is above (bull market) or below (bear market) its 10 - month simple moving average.

The BMO Asset Allocation Fund and the RBC Monthly Income Fund (series F) outperformed the index portfolio on three important benchmarks — the extent of their bear market losses, the magnitude of their subsequent recovery between March and June of this year, and their five - year average returns.

Moving average: Using the 200 - day moving average of the S&P 500 index to define our regimes as bull when the market is above it and bear when it is below it is a good method.

... according to Vanguard: In four out of seven bear markets since January 1973, the Dow Jones U.S. Total Stock Market Index beat the average actively managed fund.

One of the main arguments against «active management» is that the average active manager loses to index funds — but this is like saying the Pope is Catholic or bears crap in the woods.

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Our research showed that, on average, actively managed large - cap stock funds lost less during recent bear markets than large - cap index funds.

But there's a real definition that's generally agreed on: A bear market is a downturn of 20 % or more, lasting at least 60 days, in any broad equity index such as the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the S&P 500, or the Nasdaq.

Transports are in a bear market, but the other indexes and averages are not.

(The UK market's high average return can almost be entirely explained by a couple of months following the 1973 - 1974 bear market where the MSCI UK index rocketed higher as investors anticipated the end of that period's recession.)

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