Sentences with phrase «times than the index»

The editor could have done more work to make the index complete; I was surprised to find myself mentioned in the book more times than the index noted.

Not exact matches

The index is now trading at 20.2 times earnings, which, other than during the recession, is the highest it's been in a decade.

According to the most recent Biz2Credit Small Business Lending Index, big banks are granting a higher percentage of loan requests than at any time since the mid 2000s.

For starters, it's taken more than three years for the index to double this time around versus a few months in the dot - com days.

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.

Since then the company's share price has increased by more than 450 percent, outpacing the Stoxx Europe Technology Index that has gained 91 percent in the same time.

The S&P 500 Index, meanwhile, currently trades at more than 20 times earnings.

«If you invested in a very low - cost index fund — where you don't put the money in at one time, but average in over 10 years — you'll do better than 90 percent of people who start investing at the same time,» Buffett said at the 2004 Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting.

The cheapest company in that index, which does not include Canada - based Valeant, is still more expensive than Valeant: Fellow troubled drugmaker Endo International (endp), which trades at five times this year's earnings.

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 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.

According to the December 2016 Realtors Confidence Index Survey Report, 81 % of first - time homebuyers buy with less than 20 % down.

The S&P 500 Index retreated more than 1 percent for the first time since October, and the small - cap Russell 2000 Index gave back more than 2 percent for the first time since September.

More than just tempering Gross's anti-equity remarks, the longtime advocate of buying and holding equity - based index funds and ETFs went so far as to say that «equities today are more attractive relative to bonds than at any other time in history.»

The gist of these studies is this: Over time, investors who buy and hold long - term investments, and specifically low - cost index funds, earn more money than investors chasing the latest investment trend.

According to the complaint, an index fund - based suite of target - date funds offered by Fidelity Investments yielded, on average, more than 4.5 times the returns of the suite of Intel TDPs.

Or perhaps, despite being less than 3 % off all - time highs, most of the damage has already occurred and stocks have some catching up to do, pushing indices higher.

As with all «short ETFs,» which typically underperform their underlying indexes with longer holding periods, this swing trade is only intended to be held for a quick «pop» of no more than a few days (as opposed to our typical holding time of 1 to 3 weeks).

The latest Wells Fargo / Gallup Investor and Retirement Optimism Index found that more than half of investors weren't especially concerned about recent volatility in the stock market, while 60 % said they still believe it's a good time to invest in the financial markets.

As a result, actively managed fund are seven and a half times (on average) more costly than index funds.

In that article, I posed the question if Apple's market value really should be more than four times the market value of all the gold reserves and resource held by all the gold companies that comprise the HUI gold bugs index.

YTD, his Crisis Investment Opportunities newsletter has more than tripled the yield of the US S&P 500 after also returning positive yields last year, at a time in which the HUI gold bugs index declined by more than 50 % from January 2015 to January 2016.

Citigroup Inc.'s global surprise index tipped below zero on Friday for the first time since August, indicating that economic data in aggregate are missing economist forecasts rather than beating them.

a) investing their own money alongside you, so your interests are aligned b) a stake in the company they work at i.e. it is a partnership or employee - owned c) a proven ability to outperform an index over the long - term (at least 10 years) d) reasonable charges — preferably no more than a 1 % management fee and no performance fee e) a concentrated, high conviction portfolio i.e. they do not just hug their benchmark f) a low - asset - turnover ratio i.e. they have a long - term investment horizon and rarely sell investments g) a proven ability to preserve capital during the bad times h) a stable team who have worked together for a number of years.

For the last two years, the consumer - price index has increased less than 2 %, the first time in 15 years it has been that low in consecutive years.

Mutual funds have much higher management fees than index funds and almost always will make you less money over longer periods of time.

Yet $ 10,000 invested in the Standard and Poor's 500 - stock index would have more than doubled to $ 24,571 over that time period, with an average annual total return of 14.25 percent.

The most popular basket commodities fund, the PowerShares DB Commodity Index Tracking Fund (NYSEArca: DBC), has over $ 7 billion in assets under management — more than three times the assets of the iPath Dow Jones - UBS Commodity Total Return ETN (NYSEArca: DJP) and nearly six times the assets of the iShares S&P GSCI Commodity - Indexed Trust (NYSEArca: GSG).

The Balanced Asset Class Index which included large caps, small caps, value stocks and bonds fared much better than the all - stock options and outperformed the other options over the full cycle 4 out of 5 times.

Whenever the S&P 500 total return index fell more than 10 % below its all - time peak, the Bargain Hunter portfolio took all accumulated cash and interest earned and invested it into the S&P 500, and earned the index's total return with dividends reinvested.

We mention that an investor could buy and hold a bond index like AGG or BND rather than timing IEF.

«But we're providing more of a managed - account product than a classic index - fund product,» he said in a MarketWatch.com story at the time.

The Markit released Construction Purchasing Managers» Index that came out better - than - expected of 52.5, compared to the 47.0 in the previous period, at the same time reversing the industry's contraction to expansion.

The figures showing 0.2 % growth in the core consumer price index come a day after the central bank left its monetary policy unchanged, sticking to the view that it has done enough to generate stable inflation albeit in a slower time frame than originally set out two years ago.

So well, in fact, that relative to the Goldman Sachs Spot Commodity Index (GNX) the gold price is at an all - time high and about 30 % higher than it was at its 2011 peak.

More than half the components of the consumer price index have declined in the past six months — the first time this has happened in more than a decade.

At 18300 the index is still less than half the all time high of 38,915 set back in late 1989.

He sent me an email on Thursday in which he said even with the five horsemen (FANGs + AAPL) and the SPX and Dow up today (and the SPX setting a new all - time high), the bullish percent index (BPI) of the NYSE is negative which means there are more stocks generating a point and figure sell signal than a buy signal.

The Citi Major Economies (G - 10) Economic Surprise Index has given up more than half the fall's gains and is on the cusp of turning negative, i.e. more negative than positive surprises, for the first time since early last fall (see the accompanying chart).

The tech - heavy NASDAQ Composite Index more than tripled in value from 1998 through 2000, with a price - to - earnings ratio of more than 200 times earnings at its peak.

Rather than trying to time the market or pick the right stock, Bernstein said, it makes more sense to put your money in boring, plain vanilla index mutual funds and ETFs.

During the last 12 months, the Russell 2000 Growth Index has delivered nearly 5 times the performance of the Russell 2000 Value Index (19.5 % to 4.3 %), and during the last 9 years, has gained about 50 % more than value.

Note: they have lower liquidity than standard index ETFs, which means bigger bid / ask spreads, and this can be a real problem during times of low volatility.

In India, for example, the average life expectancy is 301/2 years, compared to 681/2 years in the United States; the average annual income is less than $ 40, compared to $ 1,469 in the U.S. Energy utilized annually per capita, which is a rough index of living standard, is in some countries equivalent to.02 tons of coal, compared to 8 tons, or 400 times as much, in the U.S.. Two thirds of the world usually goes to bed hungry at night.

For example, there are certain times that we much more readily trust habitual behavior as a reliable index to self - knowledge than, say, the Cartesian model of private, incorrigible access to one's own ego.

I've always wanted to get into it as a sugar substitute, knowing that it's totally natural, free of calories, and a zero on the glycemic index, but I just can not get used to its potent, powerful flavor (when extracted it's something like 200 times sweeter than sugar!).

If only people knew that Millet are 5 times more nutritious than the average rice varieties, has a low glycemic index (studies show they benefit type2 diabetes), cost less, cook faster, aids weight loss, reduces risk of heart disease and more!

With a heat index several times lower than a jalapeno pepper, shishito peppers are sweet and mild until they aren't.

What Football Index has done is spread the net and take away a massive proportion of the risk, allowing you to invest money in the futures of individual players, rather than one - time results.

found that kids who slept less than the suggested daily number of hours tended to show «higher values of BMI, body fat, waist and hip circumferences and fat mass index... [they] were more sedentary... and spent more time watching TV.»