Sentences with phrase «financial index declined»

The S&P 500's financial index declined 1.7 % on Thursday, with insurance providers shouldering the heaviest loss.

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The average home price fell by 8.5 % between August 2008 and March 2009, according to the Teranet - National Bank House Price Index, in a decline sparked by the financial crisis.

TORONTO, Nov 9 - Canada's main stock index fell on Thursday, weighed down by resource and financial stocks, while a slew of mostly upbeat corporate earnings tempered declines.

The S&P / TSX composite index was down 15.84 points to 15,508.17, in a largely broad - based decline that included the gold and financials sectors.

All 30 index members finished in negative territory, with industrials, aerospace contractors and financials leading the decline.

The S&P 500 eked out a small gain while the Dow declined after a volatile trading session on Wednesday, with weakness in sectors such as consumer staples and financials offsetting strong gains in the energy and industrial indexes.

The average decline in the S&P 500 Index during a recession is 26 %, and during the global financial crisis, the index declined nearly Index during a recession is 26 %, and during the global financial crisis, the index declined nearly index declined nearly 50 %.

Specifically, a recent analysis by Graham Secker, MS & Co.'s European equity strategist, found that recent disappointments in European corporate profits are a function of at least three important factors that may be reversing: idiosyncratic issues related to heavily skewed index exposure to financials and commodity - linked industries; weak operating profit leverage linked to declining emerging market sales; and less aggressive use of buybacks, tax optimization and non-operating cost reductions versus U.S. peers.

Given the sustainability concerns of Social Security, it is important to consider adding savings vehicles to your financial portfolio, like fixed indexed annuities (FIAs), that provide guaranteed lifetime income, in addition to principal protection from market declines, and tax - deferred growth.

In 2008, when the financial crisis hit with full fury, Vanguard's S&P 500 - stock index fund declined 37 %, its small - company index fund fell 36.1 % and its total international - stock fund tumbled 44.1 %.

RISMEDIA, January 19, 2010 — After declining throughout much of 2009, American consumer confidence improved sharply in January 2010, returning to levels not seen since the financial crisis began in September 2008, according to the most recent results of the RBC CASH (Consumer Attitudes and Spending by Household) Index.