Not exact matches
Despite a record one - day
point decline on the Dow Jones
index, many Wall Street experts believe the sell - off was less tied to fundamentals and was instead exacerbated by volatility - linked products and algorithmic trading.
On Thursday, the NASDAQ fell 129
points to 4,054, a 3 percent decrease, and the biggest
decline the tech - heavy
index has had in three years.
Germany's Ifo business climate
index — a key chart of morale among German businesses — fell to 102.1
points in April from 103.3
points in March, marking the fifth consecutive month of
declines.
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 S&P / TSX composite
index was down 228.57
points to 15,442.68, led by a more than six per cent
decline in the energy sector.
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.
North American investors arrived at work Monday morning and were greeted by a 1,000 -
point sell - off in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, marking the blue chip
index's biggest intra-day
decline ever.
Coming off its biggest one - day
decline since 2007, Shanghai's main share
index seesawed throughout Tuesday — falling as much as 5 percent as trading opened and rising 1 percent at one
point — to end down 1.7 percent.
In 2017, high yield spreads (based on the Barclays High Yield
Index)
declined in 8 of 12 months, with relatively minor spread widening, 20 to 25 basis
points (bps, or.20 to.25 percentage
points) in March and August (see the chart below).
The
index declined 3.8 per cent Thursday to 2,784
points, reflecting the slump in the shipping industry's prices to transport dry raw materials over 26 global routes.
The drop of 12.3
points in the orders
index is the largest since October 2001 (when, in the wake of 9/11, the
index dropped 12.4
points) and the second largest
decline since December 1980.
Trade jitters sent the Toronto Stock Exchange's S&P / TSX composite
index down 275.35
points to 15,399.93 in broad - based
declines led by base metals.
Well, the ECRI (one of the more reliable private economic analysis groups) has finally thrown in the towel - «With the Weekly Leading
Index having dropped more than 13
points in the last nine months, it is exhibiting a pronounced, pervasive, and persistent
decline that is unambiguously recessionary.»
However, the S&P 500
Index eased by three
points; the NASDAQ fell 32
points; and the Russell 2000 was 15
points lower, while
declining stocks retained their formidable lead.
May data showed a
decline in the composite
index, led by a 26 basis
point drop in first mortgage default rates.
he S&P / ASX 200
index declined 11
points, or 0.2 per cent, to 6043 while the All Ordinaries lost 10
points, or 0.2 per cent, to 6158.
July data showed a small
decline in the composite
index, while first mortgage default rate were unchanged and second mortgage default rates rose by two basis
points.
The production
index — a key measure of state manufacturing conditions — dropped 23
points, from 12.7 to -10.2, suggesting output
declined this month after growing throughout fourth quarter 2015.
The HFRI EM: Asia ex-Japan
Index declined -2.8 percent YTD through April, while the HFRI EM: China
Index fell -5.9 percent; however, each of these has topped the
decline of the Shanghai Composite
Index by 1400 and 1100 basis
points, respectively, through April.
The corresponding
declines in the MSCI World price
index from those
points were -17.3 percent, -19.4 percent, -35.0 percent, respectively (the peak - to - trough market losses were even worse).
The S&P / TSX composite
index gained 57.47
points to 13,392.2 following a 155 -
point jump Wednesday, with gains Thursday limited by the gold sector as precious metal stocks added to the steep
declines chalked up this year while bullion closed at a three - year low.
In 2017, high yield spreads (based on the Barclays High Yield
Index)
declined in 8 of 12 months, with relatively minor spread widening, 20 to 25 basis
points (bps, or.20 to.25 percentage
points) in March and August (see the chart below).
But still, my
point here is not to discourage you from becoming a landlord or
declining to practice
index investing.
We gradually found ourselves back in a defensive stretch (see Critical
Point in November 2007), which was followed by a market
decline of more than 50 %, which erased the entire preceding bull market gain in the S&P 500
index, and wiped out the entire total return of the
index — in excess of Treasury bill returns — all the way back to June 1995.
New York's Dow Jones industrials was down 53.11
points to 16,752.3, the Nasdaq
declined 13.71
points to 4,470.01 and the S&P 500
index shed 8.43
points to 1,956.15.
The PowerShares DB US Dollar
Index Bullish Fund (UUP), which tracks the U.S. dollar against six major world currencies, has
declined nearly 10 % since Jan. 1 to reach its lowest
point since 2014.
Well, the ECRI (one of the more reliable private economic analysis groups) has finally thrown in the towel - «With the Weekly Leading
Index having dropped more than 13
points in the last nine months, it is exhibiting a pronounced, pervasive, and persistent
decline that is unambiguously recessionary.»
Because this method relies on a single
point in time (i.e., the last day of the contract), a large
decline in the
index prior to that
point may decrease the interest.
The S&P / TSX composite was down more than 250
points on the nascent new year as of Wednesday, while the S&P 500 dipped below 2,000 and Europe's Stoxx
index declined 1.5 per cent.
Bear markets occur when major stock market
indexes decline 20 % or more from their highest
point to the recent lowest
point.
The Russell 2000
index of smaller - company stocks
declined 15.49
points, or 1 %, to 1,570.56.
The SIOR
index, measuring the impact of 10 variables,
declined 2.6 percentage
points to 54.9 in the second quarter, following a strong gain of 6.8 percentage
points in the first quarter.
The July Housing Affordability
Index declined by 1 percentage
point from June.
CMBS spreads
declined in response to the announcement, with the AAA CMBX
Index spread over swaps narrowing by about 200 basis
points from late April through mid-May.
The HPSI
declined 3.8 percentage
points to 84.5 last month, down from an all - time
Index high in February.
Coincident with a 14 basis
point increase in Treasury rates to which most commercial mortgage interest rates are
indexed and a five basis
point decline in equity dividend rates, the RealtyRates.com Weighted Composite (Cap Rate)
Index ™ increased six basis
points, from 9.33 to 9.39 percent during the 4th Quarter of 2017.
In the fourth quarter of 2013, the
index declined four
points to 50, but the reading has been at 50 or above for the past eight readings.
Even so, the SIOR
index, measuring the impact of 10 variables, rose 0.6 percentage
point to 55.5 in the third quarter, following a
decline of 2.6 percentage
points in the second quarter.