Recent news on Index

Stock index edges up  -  25 May 2007
China Daily,Opening lower from 4133.19, the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index dived to the daily lowest of 4111.26, but later regained strength and finished at 4179.78

Australian market continues slide  -  25 May 2007
Radio New Zealand,On the Sydney Futures Exchange, the June share price index futures contract was 39 points lower at 6259 on a volume of 11067 contracts.

ING Race Index for Monaco.  -  25 May 2007
crash.net,Ahead of the Monaco Grand Prix on May 27, ING has launched its ‘Formula 1 Race Index' to provide new and existing Formula 1 fans with a clear and instant

Sensex settles at 14338.45  -  25 May 2007
NewKerala.com,The National Stock Exchange's (NSE) broader 50-stock Nifty Index also gained 43 points to close at 4248 from its previous close of 4204.90,

Price gains boost NSE index  -  25 May 2007
Daily Nation (subscription),The Standard & Poor’s 500 Index was down 3.96 points, or 0.26 percent, at 1518.32. The Nasdaq Composite Index was down 13.84 points, or 0.54 per cent,

Stocks close lower  -  25 May 2007
Melbourne Herald Sun,At the 4.15pm close, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index had dropped 26.3 points to 6252.8 while the all ordinaries index lost 25.3 points to 6273.3.

Dow index closes over lucky 13000  -  26 Apr 2007
Detroit Free Press,For this year through Wednesday, the Dow is up 5% and the Standard & Poor's 500 index is up 5.4%. David Sowerby, a Bloomfield Hills-based portfolio manager

Stocks fall on profit-taking, commodities  -  26 Apr 2007
Reuters Canada,By late morning, the S&P/TSX composite index <.GSPTSE> was down 37.28 points, or 0.27 percent, at 13635.57. Eight of the TSX index's 10 main groups declined

Standard & Poor's unveils Saudi Shariah Index  -  26 Apr 2007
Middle East North Africa Financial Network,...(MENAFN) Standard & Poor's (S&P), an international rating agency, has launched six Gulf stock indexes including S&P Saudi Shariah Index that will carry 62.9

Mineral Wells Index sports briefs  -  26 Apr 2007
Mineral Wells Index,The Carl Kessler Memorial Mixed Doubles Tennis Tournament is slated on May 16-19 at Holiday Hills Country Club. The tennis tournament is open to doubles

Most Read Report  -  26 Apr 2007
Moneycontrol.com,The BSE Midcap Index ended at 5788.03 down 17 points or 0.3%. The BSE Smallcap Index ended at 7017.32 down 58 points or 0.8%.

Rainfall index worries weather experts  -  26 Apr 2007
ABC Online,Department of Primary Industries research scientist Dave McRae says the Southern Oscillation Index is now in minus values and if that continues,

Company Share Change In The S&P/CITIC 300 Index  -  26 Apr 2007
Exchange News Direct,S&P/CITIC Index Information Services Co., Ltd. will make the following change in the S&P/CITIC 300 Index effective after the close of trading on Thursday

Trade-weighted dollar index drops to record low  -  26 Apr 2007
ReutersThe Fed's nominal trade-weighted daily index of the dollar's value against a basket of seven currencies declined to 78.99 from 79.24 on Tuesday.

Financials lead China stock index up 0.6 pct  -  Apr 25, 2007
ReutersSHANGHAI (Reuters) - China's main stock index rebounded from early losses to close 0.63 percent higher on Wednesday, led by financials.

US STOCKS-Dow ends up as IBM lifts blue-chip index  -  Apr 24, 2007
Ninemsn,The Standard & Poor's 500 Index <.SPX> was down 0.52 point, or 0.04 percent, at 1480.41. The Nasdaq Composite Index <.IXIC> was up 0.87 point,

UK's FTSE 100 Index Gains; Sainsbury Surges After Large Trade  -  Apr 25, 2007
BloombergThe FTSE All-Share Index added 0.4 percent to 3356.33. Ireland's ISEQ Index fell 0.4 percent to 9531.82. Sainsbury, Britain's third-biggest supermarket

China A-shares close higher on second-line blue chips; key index ...  -  27 Mar 2007
Forbes,SHANGHAI (XFN-ASIA) - A-shares in Shanghai and Shenzhen closed higher in heavy trade with the key index hitting a new all-time high, led by second-tier blue

Index Holdings targets JPY 9 billion profit for FY2007  -  27 Mar 2007
Telecom Paper (subscription),Japanese mobile content and technology company Index Holdings is targeting a profit of JPY 7 to 9 billion this financial year, according to figures released

Nikkei Index Extends Three Week High; European Indexes Mixed In ...  -  27 Mar 2007
All Headline NewsTokyo, Japan (AHN) - In Tokyo, the Japanese Nikkei 225 index closed up, extending a three-week high in the previous session.

Weak US housing data dampens Wall Street enthusiasm  -  27 Mar 2007
ABC Online,The Share Price Index 200 contract on the Sydney Futures Exchange is down two points at 6042 and the 10-year bond contract is down to 94.17 with an implied

Dow Jones Indexes and AMANA Securities Limited Launch First ...  -  27 Mar 2007
Primenewswire (press release),Separately, Dow Jones Indexes today launched the Dow Jones Sri Lanka Titans 20 Index, a blue-chip measure of the country's 20 largest and most liquid stocks

Trading volumes, index rise at bourse  -  27 Mar 2007
Standard,The stock market opened the week on an upbeat note, with both key indicators; the turnover and the share index, showing an upturn.Turnover leaped to Sh304

German DAX Index Falls, Led by Volkswagen and DaimlerChrysler  -  27 Mar 2007
BloombergThe DAX Index lost 76.29, or 1.1 percent, to 6822.77 at 4:36 pm in Frankfurt. DAX futures expiring in June fell 1.1 percent to 6879. The HDAX Index of the

US Stock-Index Futures Fall; Boeing, Pfizer Decline in Europe  -  27 Mar 2007
BloombergMarch 26 (Bloomberg) -- US stock-index futures slid before economic data which may provide a further indication of the state of the housing market.

Global Services Provider Index  -  27 Mar 2007
Global Services,Except Saturday when the Global Services Provider (GSP) index registered a decline of 0.1%, last week it saw an upward trend. The index closed at 1198.02 on

California Employee Confidence Index drops 1.5 points  -  27 Mar 2007
Reliable Plant Magazine,The California Employee Confidence Index dropped 1.5 points in February to 61.5, according to the latest Spherion Employment Report, released March 24.

Blue chips set to push index beyond 6000  -  27 Mar 2007
The Australian,THE financial market's blue chip index looks set to power back through the 6000 point barrier today, as interest rates dominate the agenda.

Australian Resources Stocks to Weather Currency Rise, UBS Says  -  27 Mar 2007
BloombergThe benchmark S&P/ASX 200 Index has jumped 88 percent to 5990.70 in that time and closed at a record 6044.0 on Feb. 26. Demand for the nation's currency has

Air Berlin, Endesa, SBM, Swiss Life: European Equity Preview  -  27 Mar 2007
BloombergThe Dow Jones Stoxx 50 Index declined 1.1 percent to 3701.81. The Euro Stoxx 50 Index, a benchmark for the 12 nations using the euro, dropped 1.2 percent to

Funds: Funds feel the squeeze as markets synchronize  -  27 Mar 2007
International Herald Tribune,Jack Ablin at Harris Private Bank is betting that the Standard & Poor's 100 index of big companies will rise faster than the Russell 2000 index of smaller

China A-shares close broadly higher; key index at fresh high - UPDATE  -  Mar 26, 2007
ABCmoney.co.uk,The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index, which covers both A- and B-shares listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange, closed up 48.53 points, or 1.58 pct,

Malaysia ranks third in Kearney’s Labour Cost Advantage Index  -  Mar 25, 2007
New Straits Times,Malaysia ranks third, after India and China, in the Labour Cost Advantage Index prepared by the global management consulting firm AT Kearney for the year

Vulcan Materials, Wolverine help propel state index surge  -  25 Feb 2007
Birmingham News,The Bloomberg Alabama Index rose 0.98 percent last week and set a new all-time high, 448.13, on Wednesday before retreating the rest of the week to 445.47.

Mixed reports lead to flat week for index  -  25 Feb 2007
Asbury Park Press,The Asbury Park Press/Bloomberg 75 index ended last week unchanged as investors tried to balance reports that the housing market hasn't begun to recover

Tucker is No. 1 on the Vitale Bald Dome Index  -  25 Feb 2007
Detroit Free Press,A: Using my VBDI (Vitale Bald Dome Index), my choices on my Web site, dickvitaleonline.com, that I update once a week right now, I have No.

Monster Local Employment Index Shows Online Job Availability ...  -  25 Feb 2007
TechWhack,...“The Index showed only marginal changes in a majority of the top 28 metro areas between December and January, and although a number of markets have shown

CONSUMER INDEX  -  25 Feb 2007
Kansas City Star,...•US Transportation Secretary Mary Peters wants motorcycle manufacturers to include helmets with the purchase of new bikes or provide free safety training to

Stocks to take consumers' pulse  -  25 Feb 2007
MSN MoneyThe Conference Board's Consumer Confidence Index for February is due on Tuesday. A Reuters survey has economists forecasting a reading of 108.9,

Markets to be nervous this week  -  25 Feb 2007
Daily News & Analysis,Broad market volatility as measured by the average of the difference between daily highs and lows of the index for the week, was at 1.97% against 2.78%

Jump in medical costs pushes core inflation higher  -  25 Feb 2007
Spero NewsThe overall finished goods index fell by 0.6 percent in January, while the core index rose by 0.2 percent. The core finished goods index has increased by

Dow Jones has biggest weekly slide since August  -  25 Feb 2007
New Zealand Herald,Countrywide Financial, Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns pushed a gauge of financial shares in the Standard & Poor's 500 Index to its biggest decline in 12

You can use credit cards intelligently  -  25 Feb 2007
St. Louis Post-Dispatch,As much as I like index funds, it is not an either—or question between using them or a financial planner. Many fee-only planners (those who are paid a fee

What a Week: Drama Kings  -  25 Feb 2007
CBS 47,A variety of commodities indices like the Journal of Commerce Raw Industrial Commodity Price Index, the Goldman Sachs Commodity Index ex-energy and the CRB

Dow Jones Index Hits Another New High  -  Feb 24, 2007
Black Enterprise,Tuesday's climb brought the index to its 31st record close since early October, and its biggest five-day rally since mid-November.

Nanomedicine Journal Receives Rapid Acceptance By ISI(R) Science ...  -  Feb 24, 2007
Medical News Today (press release),...researchers, educators, editors, health science librarians and historians, to review and recommend the journal titles NLM should index.

Index ranks Wachovia No. 1, again  -  Feb 24, 2007
Columbus Ledger-Enquirer,In the American Customer Satisfaction Index, released this week, Charlotte, NC-based Wachovia Corp. received 80 points -- the most by a major US bank in 13

US leading indicators index rises 0.1% in Jan.  -  Feb 23, 2007
Providence Business News,The Conference Board Wednesday announced that its index of US leading economic indicators rose 0.1 percent last month to 138.5 points (1996 = 100) after

CBOT Launches Dow Jones US Real Estate Index Futures  -  Feb 23, 2007
HULIQ,DJUSRE Index futures contracts are designed to help market participants capitalize on changes in the real estate sector of the stock market and better

Philly Fed index rise to 8.3 in January, showing modest grow  -  18 Jan 2007
MarketWatchThe Philly Fed index of manufacturing sentiment rose to 8.3 from negative 2.3 in December, the bank said. Readings over zero in the diffusion index indicate

Air Transport Association Releases Third Quarter 2006 Airline Cost ...  -  18 Jan 2007
PR Newswire (press release),The ATA Airline Cost Index tracks quarterly and annual trends in the cost of inputs to passenger airline production. The index facilitates comparisons

Group Delays Leading Index Release  -  18 Jan 2007
Forbes,An industry-backed research group has revised its calendar for releasing its Index of Leading Economic Indicators to coordinate it with the disclosure of

Company Share Change In The S&P/CITIC 300 Index  -  18 Jan 2007
Exchange News Direct,S&P/CITIC Index Information Services Co., Ltd. will make the following change in the S&P/CITIC 300 Index effective after the close of trading on Friday

Finance: Shanghai Composite Index falls  -  18 Jan 2007
China Daily,China's stock index slid from a record high after the government said it would clamp down on the collection of capital-gains taxes on land used in

Forbes Beltway Index: Who's Cheap?  -  18 Jan 2007
Forbes,Our Forbes Beltway Index has 100 component companies. In the accompanying tables, you’ll find a few stocks in the group looking cheap or expensive at the

Japan Nov tertiary index down 0.3 pct from Oct; first fall in 2 ...  -  18 Jan 2007
Forbes,TOKYO (XFN-ASIA) - The tertiary index, which measures spending in the services sector, fell 0.3 pct in November from October, the first fall in two months,

Russell Throws Down Index Gauntlet  -  18 Jan 2007
Black Enterprise,The move intensifies competition in the global index arena, pitting Russell, with $3.8 trillion in assets benchmarked to its US indexes,

Japan Nov leading index revised to 18.2 from initial estimate of 20  -  18 Jan 2007
Forbes,TOKYO (XFN-ASIA) - The index of leading economic indicators for November stood at a revised 18.2 compared to the initial reading of 20.0, according to

AIA’s Architecture Billings Index Shows 2006 Ended with a Sprint  -  18 Jan 2007
Architectural RecordThe AIA’s billings index had a 59.5 rating in December, up from 57.4 in November; any score above 50 indicates an increase in billings.

OMA Joins Mexican Stock Exchange IPC Index  -  18 Jan 2007
Yahoo! News (press release)The Mexican Stock Exchange adjusts the composition of the IPC index on an annual basis, based on criteria including share liquidity and market

Seoulites at Bottom Happiness Index  -  18 Jan 2007
Korea Times,...``We will make diversified plans to boost the city’s happiness index based on social welfare services,’’ said Lee Seong-gyu, president of the foundation.

VN-Index approaches 1000 points, experienced investors worried  -  18 Jan 2007
Vietnam Economic Times,The first days of 2007 seemed to be the hottest days so far in Viet Nam's stock market with the VN-Index rising for the 10th consecutive trading day,

UK DMO auction of index-linked gilts maturing 2017 covered by bids ...  -  18 Jan 2007
Forbes,LONDON (AFX) - The UK's Debt Management Office said its auction of 1.2 bln stg in index-linked gilts maturing in 2017 was covered by bids 2.35 times.

US Index of Homebuilder Confidence Rises to 6-Month High  -  Jan 17, 2007
BloombergThe National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo index of sentiment rose to 35 this month from a revised 33 in December, the Washington-based

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