Sentences with phrase «on standard index»

Babies born in the first circle also showed significantly lower scores on a standard index of infant health.

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On Wednesday, the Standard & Poor's 500 index was within two points of its all - time high.

According to a recent survey by Standard Media Index, which tracks national ad spending on broadcast and cable, TV upfront sales rose by an average of 5 % in May compared with last year — and cable on average saw a 10 % rise in upfront revenues.

Specifically, CASPERSEN traded heavily in options, including options based on the Standard & Poor's Depository Receipts S&P 500, an exchange - traded fund based on the S&P 500 with ticker symbol «SPY,» and options based on PowerShares QQQ, an exchange - traded fund based on the Nasdaq 100 Index.

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Companies are also sitting on piles of cash, with those in the Standard and Poor's 500 index holding nearly $ 1 trillion on their books.

With sentiment indicators buoyant, margin debt close to historic levels and indices trading close to their 2 standard deviation based on forward PE over five years, investors need to be mindful that a correction can easily unfold.

The Standard & Poor's 500 Index, often abbreviated as the S&P 500, or just the S&P, is an American stock market index based on the market capitalizations of 500large companies having common stock listed on the NYSE or NAIndex, often abbreviated as the S&P 500, or just the S&P, is an American stock market index based on the market capitalizations of 500large companies having common stock listed on the NYSE or NAindex based on the market capitalizations of 500large companies having common stock listed on the NYSE or NASDAQ.

It has become more likely for stock prices to make large swings — on the order of 3 percent or 4 percent — than it has been in any other time in recent stock market history, according to an analysis by The New York Times of price changes in the Standard & Poor's 500 - stock market index since 1962.

The Standard & Poor's 500 Index is up 311 percent, or 16.7 percent on an annualized basis.

Britain's FTSE 100 index is seen opening up 20 points on Wednesday, according to financial bookmakers * STANDARD CHARTERED: Standard Chartered Plc posted a better - than - expected 20 percent rise in pretax profit for the first three months of the year, helped by a surge in loan demand and improvement in asset STANDARD CHARTERED: Standard Chartered Plc posted a better - than - expected 20 percent rise in pretax profit for the first three months of the year, helped by a surge in loan demand and improvement in asset Standard Chartered Plc posted a better - than - expected 20 percent rise in pretax profit for the first three months of the year, helped by a surge in loan demand and improvement in asset quality.

May 2 Britain's FTSE 100 index is seen opening up 20 points on Wednesday, according to financial bookmakers * STANDARD CHARTERED: Standard Chartered Plc posted a better - than - expected 20 percent rise in pretax profit for the first three months of the year, helped by a surge in loan demand and improvement in asset STANDARD CHARTERED: Standard Chartered Plc posted a better - than - expected 20 percent rise in pretax profit for the first three months of the year, helped by a surge in loan demand and improvement in asset Standard Chartered Plc posted a better - than - expected 20 percent rise in pretax profit for the first three months of the year, helped by a surge in loan demand and improvement in asset quality.

Netflix announced a 7 - for - 1 stock split on Tuesday, and is the top performing stock in the Standard & Poor's 500 index this year.

The question was an unusually personal twist on advice Buffett has always given: That most investors are better off buying low - cost mutual funds that index, or closely track, the holdings and returns of the Standard & Poor's 500 - stock index.

The Standard & Poor's 500, often abbreviated as the S&P 500, or just the S&P, is an American stock market index based on the market capitalizations of 500 large companies having common stock listed on the NYSE or NASDAQ.

Hybrid indexes may be on the rise but the traditional benchmarks — the Standard & Poor's 500 index, the Dow Jones Industrial Average index or the Barclays Bond index — still dominate.

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

Our common stock is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol BEN and is included in the Standard & Poor's 500 ® Index.

Each year, Standard and Poors releases three financial guides containing historical data on the selected companies making up its Small Cap, Mid Cap, and Large Cap indices.

Even measured against this bull market's impressive results, technology stocks have been excellent investments, outpacing the 19.4 percent annualized return of Standard and Poor's 500 - stock index by four percentage points per year, on average, since...

«In a horrible, truly worst - case scenario, a high - quality bond index fund is still less risky over the course of a year than stocks are in one day,» says the investment adviser Allan Roth, founder of Wealth Logic in Colorado Springs, alluding to the 20 percent decline in the Standard & Poor's 500 - stock index on Oct. 19, 1987.

Based on the above research findings, with the S&P 500 Index's current ten - year normalized PE of 20.3 and ten - year normalized dividend yield of 2.1 %, investors should be aware of the fact that the market is by historical standards expensive.

Based on the last five years» worth of data, the NYSE Arca Gold BUGS Index has had a monthly standard deviation of ± 9.4, but last month it plunged 20 percent.

U.S. stock futures fell, with the Standard & Poor's 500 Index poised for a third day of losses, as a government crackdown on tax - saving mergers sent drugmakers with pending cross-border deals lower.

U.S. stocks rose, with the Standard & Poor's 500 Index near a record, as investors weighed economic data for clues on the timing of higher interest rates amid optimism that a deal on Greek aid is within reach.

These widely used measures of house prices are all less than fully satisfactory in that the quarterly movements are influenced by compositional changes and contain significant lags in recording transactions; the lags arise because most standard indices record prices as at the date a transaction is settled, which is well after the price was determined by agreement on a contract.

M&A volumes historically follow the lead of the stock market, and the 6.67 % increase in the Standard & Poor's 500 Index this year suggests more are on the way.

Corporate media like the New York Times like to portray the two main stock market indices, the Dow Jones Industrial Average with its 30 stocks and the Standard and Poor's index of 500 stocks (which did not set a new high yesterday even with plenty of warts removed) as a proxy on the well being of the country; folks everywhere should be fist pumping with each new record high.

By manipulating these futures tied to the Standard & Poor's 500 Index, Sarao allegedly «earned him significant profits and contributed to a major drop in the U.S. stock market on May 6, 2010, that came to be known as the «Flash Crash,»» the DOJ said in a release.

And now, after watching the Standard & Poor's 500 - stock index fall by several percentage points since Thursday and bounce some of the way back on Tuesday, you have a different kind of fear: that all the stock market riches have been won already or that your emotions will get the best of you amid all of the volatility.

In addition, a recent study by the executive data firm Equilar tracks perceptible progress among boards of companies on the Standard & Poor's 500 - stock index in reaching gender diversity.

Futures on the Standard & Poor's 500 index dropped by 7.0 points on Tuesday.

By November 12, 90 percent of the companies on the Standard & Poor's 500 index had reported their third quarter earnings.

FRANKFURT — Stocks in the United States were up slightly Tuesday morning after a tough day on Wall Street had sent the Standard & Poor's 500 - stock index down more than 10 percent from its recent peak.

The Rydex S&P 500 Equal Weight sector ETFs are based on the S&P 500 index and the GICS standard.

Barrick's shares are up 29 per cent this year in Toronto, making it the best - performing stock on the Standard & Poor's / TSX Composite Index.

• Standard & Poor's «Composite Index,» introduced in 1923, is based on market capitalization (stock price times the number of shares outstanding) of 500 of the world's largest companies.

Investors need to concentrate on the performance of the in vestments they own and not the overall market indexes such as the Dow and the Standard & Poor's 500, Hunt said.

Thought of another way, the $ 22.8 billion Apple spent on its first quarter stock buyback is enough buy any of 275 companies in the Standard & Poor's 500 - stock index.

FTSE Chief Executive, Mark Makepeace, wrote to the International Baby Food Action Network (IBFAN) on 17 June 2011 explaining why FTSE chose to change the standards to make it easier for companies to be included in the Index: «In the infant food sector we were not able to engage the companies as they were all being excluded from the index.&rIndex: «In the infant food sector we were not able to engage the companies as they were all being excluded from the index.&rindex.»

«In the ITUC Global Rights index which ranks countries on standards of fundamental rights, the UK ranks alongside Georgia, Russia and Iran.

The UV index is an international standard measurement of how strong the ultraviolet (UV) radiation from the sun is at a particular place on a particular day.

To do so, he sat down with The Merck Index, a standard reference manual for chemicals, drugs, and other compounds, and turned to the section on the class of hormones to which norbolethone's precursor belonged.

Singapore can then impose fines of up to S$ 100,000 ($ 80,000) per day of smoke, up to a maximum of S$ 2 million, on companies or individuals that are found to cause Singapore's air pollutant standards index to rise to the «unhealthy» level.

The glycemic index measures the effect on blood glucose of a given amount of carbohydrate from a particular food source, in comparison to the same amount of carbohydrate in white bread as the standard (set at 100).

But the «normal» index and range was taken on «normal» people who eat the Standard American Diet (SAD).»

Performance Assessment Links in Science (PALS) PALS is an on - line, standards - based, continually updated resource bank of science performance assessment tasks indexed via the National Science Education Standards (NSES).

The Share My Lesson team did the legwork of digging through more than 250,000 user - uploaded and - rated resources on the site to find the most relevant ones for teaching with the Common Core Standards — check out the K - 8 Math Index and the 6 - 12 English Language Arts Index for lessons mapped to specific standards.

As it turns out, scores on these three indices explain 87 percent of the total variation in teacher performance across all eight standards.

They compare state NAEP gains between Common Core adopting and non-adopting states or compare states based on an index of the quality of their implementation of the standards.