Sentences with phrase «stocks than index»

I won't ever be more invested in individual stocks than index funds, as tempting as it might be at times.

I use non-index mutual funds to 1) add more international exposure to my portfolio 2) invest in bonds 3) give me a bit more growth / value stocks than my index funds do and 4) take part in a few investment strategies I find interesting / potentially fruitful.

Not exact matches

The Saudi stock index was flat, restrained by a 1.9 percent drop by top petrochemical producer Saudi Basic Industries, which fell 2.1 percent after reporting lower - than - expected fourth - quarter earnings.

Since the beginning of 2008, the Russell 3000 growth index outperformed its value counterpart by more than 70 percentage points, returning 10.3 % annually, compared with 7 % for value stocks.

That means weighting stocks in an index by qualities such as earnings, cash flow, dividends and book values rather than the sheer size of their market caps.

Moreover, BlackRock's heavy focus on index funds, which have to stay invested in the stocks in a given index, gives it less sway over companies than activists willing to dump a stock if their demands aren't met.

For an idea of how sensitive stocks have been to signs of rising inflation, look no further than the immediate negative reaction seen in US indexes after inflation rose more than expected in January.

Meanwhile, in the U.S., stock indexes continued slightly higher as investors reacted to better - than - anticipated results from major retailers.

Meanwhile, in the U.S., stock indexes continued marginally higher on Friday, supported by weaker - than - expected consumer price data for July.

U.S. stock index futures pointed to a higher open on Friday on better - than - expected employment data.

MKM's screen also selected stocks with a nine - day relative strength index, or RSI, less than 50.

The index has more than 800 stocks in 23 countries.

Looking at specific stocks, Actelion ended close to the top of the pan-European index, jumping more than 6 percent.

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 Shanghai composite is up 1.3 percent year to date, in contrast to gains of more than 17 percent for the EEM and Hong Kong's Hang Seng stock index.

«Anything much worse than that could unleash a wave of new selling, perhaps taking out key support at $ 15.50 and setting up a test of the previous lows from late last year,» said Steven Schoenfeld, founder of BlueStar Indexes, which develops indexes and exchange traded - funds that track Israeli Indexes, which develops indexes and exchange traded - funds that track Israeli indexes and exchange traded - funds that track Israeli stocks.

If you've been sitting on the sidelines of emerging markets and are ready to get back in, Jurrien Timmer, director of global macro for Fidelity Investments in Boston, recommends buying particular stocks and geographically targeted funds rather than a broad index or exchange - traded fund spanning the entire developing world.

U.S. stock indexes suffered their biggest losses in 3 months Monday, having finished 2014 on a fairly strong note, with the Dow gaining 7.5 % on the year, while the S&P 500 improved by almost 12 %, and the Nasdaq gained more than 13 %.

By the end of Monday, with the S&P 500 itself down, more than one - fifth of the stocks in the index were down at least 20 percent from their 52 - week highs, while two - thirds were off more than 10 percent.

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.

Several weeks after his comments, in early February, stock markets stateside fell more than 10 percent from recent record highs, with major U.S. and global stock indexes moving into correction territory.

Designed to return the inverse of the Cboe Volatility Index, or VIX, the fund was blamed for exacerbating the stock market's drop of more than 10 %.

When the Standard & Poor's 500 - stock index lost 10 percent from late January to early February, the Bloomberg Barclays Aggregate U.S. Bond index fell more than 1 percent.

Of the 373 stocks whose prices rose, 265 (or 53 %) went up more than 10 %, while 157 (or 31 %) rose 20 % or more — meaning they more than doubled the broader index's return.

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).

They are both baskets of stocks that are meant to cover a broad sector or index and managed passively rather than actively.

The gains came after the Toronto stock index dropped more than eight per cent from its all - time high and leading Wall Street indexes slumped into a 10 per cent correction for the first time in two years.

It's worth noting that the cryptocurrency fund fees are still much higher than comparable passive stock market funds, with S&P 500 index funds priced as low as.05 % of assets.

Only 15 of the companies in their global fund are in the MSCI World Index's 1,600 - stock universe, while fewer than half of the names in their Canadian fund are in the S&P / TSX composite.

Out of all the stocks currently within the index, just five have risen by more than 20 percent in 2015, in 2016 and in 2017 year to date.

The market volatility index, otherwise known as the VIX and even better known as the fear gauge — a measure of the expected volatility of U.S. stocks — has surged to the highest level in more than two years.

When choosing countries to invest in, Langham looks at the price - to - book ratio of the national stock indexes rather than price - to - earnings, as it's difficult to predict profits in a weak economic environment.

Data from Adobe's Digital Index found that 35 percent of online sales volume went toward retailers» Thanksgiving Day doorbusters, leading to «a lot more out of stocks» on Black Friday than the firm expected.

Much simpler than picking stocks, that's for sure, hence why most should just buy index funds.

My reasoning: Return would be lower than Dividend Investing above because index funds need to hold stocks yielding 1 and 2 % as well as those yielding > 3 %.

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 effect of equal weighting is keener for XRT than for some other equal - weight funds because XRT draws retail stocks from the broad S&P Total Market Index, not the large - cap - oriented S&P 500.

As we frequently remind newsletter subscribers, we are always much more focused on the performance of leading stocks and ETFs than the actual price action of the major indices.

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.

The Hang Seng Index has advanced more than 27 percent, driven mostly by financials and tech stocks such as Tencent and AAC Technologies.

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.

I plan: 5 % — swing for the fences 10 % — save for big blue chip bargain buys that pop up throughout the year 10 % — VNQ, other than our primary residence, I have no exposure to RE, so this should help with that 15 % — VXUS, international index exposure 60 % — VTI, total stock market index (as I get older, I will be also adding BND or a bond fund, but at 32, I'm working on building equities!)

Rather than having a professional pick and choose individual stocks, with an index fund, you own all or almost all of one particular kind of investment.

NASDAQ Composite Index measures the market value of all domestic and foreign common stocks, representing a wide array of more than 5,000 companies, listed on the NASDAQ Stock Market.

HERERA: Merck (NYSE: MRK) was one of the best performing stocks on the blue chip Dow index today, after the drug company «s new type of lung cancer drug performed better than expected in a highly anticipated clinical trial.

The fact that this ratio is now at the bottom band for most broadly defined stock indices suggests that the risk of continued underperformance by the broad market - versus large - cap indices - is substantially less than it was on April 5th, or even June 30th, when the most recent downdraft started.

We still have some exposure to «basis risk» - the risk that our stocks perform differently than the indices we use to hedge, but given that both the broad market and some of our industry group holdings are oversold relative to the S&P 100, I believe that the some of this potential for basis risk was reduced by the recent decline.

It does this by using a derivative called a «swap» to earn the return of the index rather than buying the stocks directly.

Rather than looking at actionable swing trading stock and ETF trade setups in a market that has not exactly been conducive to new swing trade entries lately (whipsaw city), today we will instead assess the current technical support and resistance levels of several broad - based ETFs that track the main stock market indexes.

The oil and gas companies both reported lower - than - expected earnings on Friday morning, and their stocks fell 5 to 6 percent by the afternoon — dragging down the entire index, which continued to slump on Monday.