Sentences with phrase «market index at»

A derivative contract that commits you to buy or sell a commodity, currency or stock market index at a set price on a set date in the future.

You can also trade in futuresFutures A derivative contract that commits you to buy or sell a commodity, currency or stock market index at a set price on a set date in the future.

Managed futuresFutures A derivative contract that commits you to buy or sell a commodity, currency or stock market index at a set price on a set date in the future.

Now consider the experience of their younger sisters who happened to start investing in the market index at the end of 2002.

MSCI plans to add 222 China A Large Cap stocks, representing on a pro forma basis approximately 0.73 % of the weight of the MSCI Emerging Markets Index at a 5 % partial Inclusion Factor.

While I am a huge fan of Exchange - Traded Funds (ETFs), it should be remembered that they are merely a tool to achieve an objective: to track broad stock market indexes at the lowest possible total cost.

Scott: the attractiveness of TD's efunds is that these funds track the major market indexes at the lowest possible costs (for a fund that is, with etfs you can get much cheaper).

Shares of mainland Chinese companies will become part of the MSCI Emerging Markets Index at a time of general weakness for Chinese shares.

Not exact matches

Despite the recent softness in data — the Citi economic surprise index for the eurozone is now at its lowest since June 2012 — markets remain stubbornly bullish on the euro with overall bets still near record highs as longer - term expectations remain optimistic.

The Australian share market has opened higher following a positive lead from Wall Street, with the S&P / ASX200 index reaching a new record intraday high of 5,502.30 at 1034 AEDT, breaking the previous peak set on November 7 of 5,496.30.

The Australian share market has closed at its highest level in six weeks, wrapping up April with a run of gains that has added 230 points to the benchmark index since March.

The Catalyst global survey measured women's share of board seats at stock market index companies in 20 countries (Canada's figures come from companies included in the S&P / TSX index).

The VIX, often called the market's fear index, has been «suspect for at least seven years,» says Bart Chilton, former CFTC commissioner.

Keith Parker, a strategist at UBS who has a 3,300 target on the S&P 500 for 2018, said only 35 - to - 45 percent of the tax plan is priced into the market, noting the index's recent gains have been mostly a product of better - than - expected economic data and strong earnings.

In his view, with U.S. equity indices realizing all - time highs, now is the time to look at undervalued markets around the world.

Losses were led by the Chinese markets, with Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index down more than 3 percent and the Shanghai composite down more than 4 percent at midday after losing the most since February 2016, according to Reuters records.

It also means that over the next year, Apple will be paying more back in dividends than any other publicly traded company, beating out oil giant Exxon Mobil for the position, according to Howard Siliverblatt, veteran market watcher and senior index analyst at S&P Dow Jones Indices.

Looking at markets overseas, both stocks in Europe and Asia were mixed or came under slight pressure on Tuesday; the Stoxx 600 index fell 0.18 percent.

May was a stagnant month for the Deloitte WA index with the market capitalisation of Western Australia listed companies increasing by only 0.3 per cent to close the month at $ 153.6 billion.

China has the largest weighting in the MSCI Emerging Market Index, at 27.66 percent, although that only includes Hong Kong and U.S. - listed shares of Chinese companies.

The Deloitte WA Index declined in June after positive performance in the previous month, with the market capitalisation of Western Australian listed companies decreasing by 3.1 per cent to close the month at $ 149.3 billion.

An investor who panicked and only later re-entered the market would have found that his bank account at the end of the bet was a lot smaller than a hypothetical account in which he earned the index - fund returns for the whole period.»

Davis, who spoke with CNBC at the Sohn Conference in October, then warned that so many investors were shorting Cboe's Volatility index (VIX) that a mild uptick in market uncertainty could lead to an exaggerated spike in volatility.

The current year - to - date gains for the S&P 500 Index are higher than the average annual gains since 1928, according to Howard Silverblatt, a veteran market watcher at S&P Dow Jones Indices.

No Canadian economist will agree with Mintz — most say that it could take years for the S&P / TSX composite index, now sitting at under 12,000, to hit 15,000 points again — but they are generally optimistic that the market upswing will continue.

Just before Thanksgiving, all four major U.S. stock market indexes closed at record highs — the first time that's happened since 1999.

At the sixth anniversary of the bull market in March, the Standard and Poor's 500 index had more than tripled in value.

This wasn't unexpected, since the market was rising in just the right mix of conditions: Volatility as measured by the Cboe's index was at historic lows, the GOP was set to pass the most comprehensive corporate - tax reform in decades, and economies around the world were in growth mode.

With the Dow Jones, S&P 500 and Nasdaq indexes each kicking off the fourth quarter at record highs, most investors are either cheering, wondering if the market is too expensive to put more money into or worrying about a possible correction.

Tom Wynn, director of affluent research at Spectrem, provided several factors for the increased confidence: the steady improvement in job growth, the steady increase in the major stock market indices since the spring, and a decrease in political ambiguity with the election season over, which has an effect on at least some people's outlook.

The value of music streaming service Spotify, which is planning a stock market listing, has grown around 20 % to at least $ 19 billion in the past few months, outperforming US and European tech indexes, sources familiar with the matter said.

The number of ETFs on the market has skyrocketed this year more than ever, forcing me in recent months to look again at my long - held preference for cheap index funds.

«Markets across the globe received a bit of a boost as news broke that U.S. forces had killed Osama bin Laden,» Ben Potter, a market strategist at IG Index told The Guardian.

The so - called S&P 500 fear index finished last week at 10.82, about 40 % below its bull market average, and briefly fell below 10 on Monday.

Markets no longer end each day at all - time highs and the S&P 500 Index's annualized return no longer approaches triple digits.

Many investors felt this pain after the 2008 market crash, though those who remained invested at the 2008/2009 lows have more than made their money back in the years since — the S&P 500 Index is up 171 percent since the beginning of 2009.

He looked at market data between 1900 and 2012 to see how politics affected the S&P 500 index.

Stock markets have been rallying for months in anticipation of sharply lower tax rates for corporations, with Wall Street's three major equities indexes closing at record highs on Friday.

The Cboe Volatility Index (VIX), widely considered to be the best gauge of fear in the market, hit its lowest level since Feb. 1 and traded more than 11.5 percent lower at 14.62.

That's not to say that it is, at least by some metrics — according to market researcher Global Web Index, Tumblr is among the fastest - growing social media outlets on the Internet, with an uptick of 94 % in active users over the last year.

We see the move as related to global emerging markets, where the MSCI EM index is down for the third day in a row and the largest EM ETF saw $ 320 million of outflows yesterday following $ 550 million the previous day, said Mohamad Al Hajj, head of MENA equity strategy at EFG - Hermes.

Ken Odeluga, a market analyst at City Index, told BI: «The key for the moment seems to be more about gold's role as a counterweight to the dollar and, more precisely, as the inverse of the Federal Reserve's willingness to create more ideal dollar conditions by tightening policy.»

Statistics Canada reported in The Daily in November that, «gasoline prices have increased at a slightly faster pace in the central and eastern provinces than in the west, resulting in a spread between some provincial gasoline indices... associated with the dual crude oil market in Canada and the recent price differential between crude oil benchmarks.»

The MSCI Frontier Markets Index is trading at about 12 times earnings, while the All Country World Index is trading at 14 times.

All of that increases market volatility, at both an index and a company level, says Paul Moroz, Mawer Investment Management's deputy chief investment officer.

Emerging - market indexes usually trade between 1.5 and 2.4 times book value; the overall MSCI is trading at about 1.7 times right now.

The Australian share market is at its highest level in almost 10 years, with the benchmark S&P / ASX200 index closing 1 per cent higher today and the Western Australia - focused BN30 index jumping 1.8 per cent to a new high.

Still, the session was very choppy with the NSE index falling as much as 1.8 % at one point and rising as much as 1.5 %, with sentiment still weak because of continued worries about a downturn in Chinese equity markets.

The bank's MOVE Index of volatility in the world's largest bond market was at 82.7 on May 29, up from 75.3 at the end of April and compared with an average of 77.6 over the past five years.

It isn't just equities: Bank of America Merrill Lynch has a Move Index that looks at expected volatility in the U.S. Treasury market.