Sentences with phrase «average stock index»

By filing for bankruptcy protection, GM automatically loses its spot on the Dow Jones Industrial Average stock index.

A trader signals a trade in the Dow Jones Industrial Average stock index futures pit at the Chicago Board of Trade 14 March 2001.

Not exact matches

(This is due to the fact that the Dow index is price - weighted, and because Goldman Sachs is now its most expensive stock at $ 242 per share, that bank holds bigger sway on the index average.)

Asian and U.S. stock markets took a hit following the news, with the Dow Jones industrial average dropping nearly 3 % on Thursday and Japan's Nikkei index dropping close to 4 % Friday.

The Dow Jones industrial average closed 238.51 points higher at 24,322.34, with Visa as the best - performing stock in the index.

U.S. stock index futures pointed to a higher open on Wednesday with the Dow Jones industrial average on track to reach another milestone.

The Dow Jones industrial average gained 187.08 points to close at 23,458.36, with Wal - Mart and Cisco leading advancers on the 30 - stock index.

By contrast, stocks in the S&P 500 Apparel Retail Index are changing hands at the fastest clip since 2012 — an average of 700,000 times more a week than they did last year.

The Dow Jones industrial average closed 14.25 points lower at 24,448.69 — notching its first four - day losing streak since March — with Goldman Sachs as the worst - performing stock in the index.

Since June 30 of this year, the S&P / TSX Composite Index is down 12.28 %, so if your Canadian stocks are down an average of only 12 %, you could be what Charlie Sheen calls «winning!»

Each year, Diversity Inc. selects the organizations for its «Top 50 Companies for Diversity» list, and the organization's research shows that more diverse companies are more profitable: «Expressed as a stock market index,» the 2014 winners that were public companies «beat the Dow Jones Industrial Average on a one -, three - and five - year basis,» Luke Visconti, Diversity Inc.'s CEO, wrote.

During the 20 - year period ending in 2012, the S&P 500 index returned an annual average of 8.21 percent, but the average person who invested in stock - market mutual funds earned only 4.25 percent.

Trade - related investor concerns saw the Dow Jones industrial average close in correction on Friday, with the 30 - stock index falling 5.7 percent for the week.

CNBC ran a study using analytics tool Kensho to find Dow Jones industrial average stocks that held up the best when the Cboe Volatility index, or VIX, pops more than 5 percent in one day.

In early March, Coinbase also released a weighted index fund that will give accredited U.S. investors exposure to all the assets listed in its GDAX exchange, similar to how the Dow Jones industrial average's 30 stocks attempt to reflect the U.S. economy.

The downtrend in many of these stocks was exacerbated Friday after the Dow Jones industrial average dropped nearly 666 points, marking the index's sixth - largest points decline ever.

The VIX index, which tracks volatility in stocks, sits at roughly 12 on Friday, maintaining its year - long stay below its long - term average.

The stocks that hedge funds have largely ignored tend to be much larger than the hotels, have less debt, grow earnings more slowly but consistently, and pay bigger dividends (an average yield of nearly 3 % for the S&P 500 constituents, compared with 2 % for the index overall).

Luciano Siracusano, chief investment strategist at ETF and index developer WisdomTree (wetf), says the 1,400 dividend - paying stocks in the company's WT Dividend index now have average yields of about 3 %, twice the yield of 10 - year Treasuries.

Japan: Nikkei: The Nikkei 225 (NKY) Index: The Nikkei - 225 Stock Average is a price - weighted average of 225 top - rated Japanese companies listed in the First Section of the Tokyo Stock ExAverage is a price - weighted average of 225 top - rated Japanese companies listed in the First Section of the Tokyo Stock Exaverage of 225 top - rated Japanese companies listed in the First Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange.

The average stock on the S&P 500 stock index has a dividend yield of about 2 percent whereas the 10 - year Treasury note yields 1.7 percent.

The 30 - stock index also closed above its 50 - day moving average, a key technical level.

In August, the investment firm Richard Bernstein Advisors compared the performance of the average investor — based on the monthly flows of money in and out of mutual funds — against a variety of stock indexes, commodities and other asset classes over a 20 - year period ending Dec. 31, 2013.

The Hang Seng Composite Index is a market capitalization - weighted index that comprises the top 200 companies listed on Stock Exchange of Hong Kong, based on average market cap for the 12 moIndex is a market capitalization - weighted index that comprises the top 200 companies listed on Stock Exchange of Hong Kong, based on average market cap for the 12 moindex that comprises the top 200 companies listed on Stock Exchange of Hong Kong, based on average market cap for the 12 months.

After a driver plowed through a crowd of people in Barcelona on Aug. 17, leaving 13 dead and 100 more wounded, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ended the day down about 274 points, with all 30 stocks in the index finishing in the red.

The Dow Jones industrial average or «Dow» (an index that tracks 30 large U.S. stocks) dropped more than 700 points, or nearly 3 percent, in the hours after the announcement.

After all, from January 2009 through the end of last year, the Dow Jones industrial average more than doubled, and Standard and Poor's 500 - stock index increased by nearly 130 percent.

NEW YORK (AP)-- Declines in several stocks in the Dow Jones industrial average are pulling the index lower in midday trading.

In 2000 as the market peaked, the average winning stock outperformed the index by 50 %.

Chief Asia Equity Strategist Jonathan Garner expects 26.5 % year - over-year average earnings growth for components of the benchmark Tokyo Stock Price Index in 2017, followed by 9.8 % growth in 2018.

Since its launch in 2005, it has returned an annualized 9.8 percent, while the broader Standard & Poor's 500 stock index has climbed an average 6.7 percent per year during the same time.

Last Friday's (July 5) rally pushed each of the main stock market indexes back above their respective 50 - day moving averages.

For months, some of our internal strength measures have favored secondary stocks, indicating comparatively favorable action in indices such as the Russell 2000 and the Value Line Arithmetic average (which is not weighted by capitalization, so it reflects broad action).

Studies have consistently shown that the returns achieved by the average stock or bond fund investor have lagged the reported returns of the average stock or bond index, often by a large margin.

After all, why diversify into overseas stocks when media headline after media headline highlights the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the S&P 500 ® Index, and the Nasdaq Composite Index breaking one record high after another?

Japan's Nikkei share average edged lower on Monday morning after index - heavy stocks such as SoftBank and Terumo lost ground, offsetting gains in financial stocks, which rallied after U.S. yields rose.

NEW YORK (Reuters)- Wall Street shares plunged on Monday as investors fled technology stocks amid resurgent trade war worries, with key indexes trading below their 200 - day moving averages and the S&P 500 closing below that pivotal technical level for the first time since Britain's vote to leave the European Union in June 2016.

Japan's Nikkei share average fell on Monday as index heavyweight stocks such as SoftBank and Terumo lost ground, offsetting gains in financials, which rallied after U.S. yields rose.

The after - tax proceeds from those sources would be worth $ 547 million if he invested the money in a blend of stocks, bonds, hedge funds, commodities and cash, assuming a weighted average annual return of 7 percent over the past 15 years, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.

So far in March, the Dow Jones industrial average, the index that's often used as a gauge of how the stock market's doing, has slipped 360 points, or 1.7 percent.

Fidelity research has also shown that picking low - cost funds is one way to improve average historical results of large - cap stock funds relative to comparable index funds.

Weighted Average Market Cap: a stock market index weighted by the market capitalization of each stock in the index.

If you're an average retail investor just looking for some low - cost index funds, you don't need to spend your day glued to the stock ticker.

In addition, correlations between stocks within the S&P 500 and the MSCI World Index had fallen below their long - run average as of October 2017.

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.

The P / E ratio for an index is the weighted average of the price / earnings ratios of the stocks in the index.

They ranked low on the Standard & Poor's 500 Composite Index: Energy shares sank 5.9 %, on average, while materials sector stocks collectively shed 5.5 % of their value; among the nine other equity sectors, only telecommunication services and consumer staples companies posted larger losses.1

The Standard & Poor's 500 - stock index climbed 2.7 percent, the Dow Jones industrial average rose 2.8 percent and the Nasdaq composite jumped 3.3 percent.

The choppy action has imparted plenty of pain to the average stock with the S&P 500 about 8 percent below its January record high, more than a fifth of the stocks within the index have dropped at least 20 percent and two - thirds are off more than 10 percent from their high.