market index

collocation in English

meaningsofmarketandindex

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market
adjective[before noun]
uk
/ˈmɑː.kɪt/us
/ˈmɑːr.kɪt/
usual for a particular market (= the business or trade in a particular product ...
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index
noun
uk
/ˈɪn.deks/us
/ˈɪn.deks/
an alphabetical list, such as one printed at the back of a book showing which page a subject, name, etc. ...
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(Definition ofmarketandindexfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Ultimately, forecasts of excess returns can be obtained from forecasts of the mean and volatility of the stockmarketindex.
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It is more difficult to manipulate a broadmarketindexthan the price of a single stock.
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Themarketindexprice for the computation of market conditions is computed as the average price of the 50 equities.
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Of course, not all industries respond in exactly the same way to these exogenous shocks - some tend to move less than the generalmarketindex, some more.
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Commodity prices were tumbling everywhere and the stockmarketindexwas soaring to high heaven.
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Companies cannot opt out or in; if they want to be quoted on that stockmarketindexthey have to undergo a process of analysis.
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In their construction these indices are similar to a stockmarketindex.
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Often, when the return of a stockmarketindexis quoted in the press, the quoted returns concern price returns, rather than the total returns.
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These online exchange markets operate amarketindexof prices near but usually not at 100% competitiveness, as exchanges take commissions on winnings.
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For instance, a stockmarketindexand the price of its associated futures contract move through time, each roughly following a random walk.
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He cumulated the daily percent change in themarketindexrather than the difference between advances and declines.
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Passive investors, on the other hand, feel that simply investing in amarketindexfund may produce potentially higher long-term results.
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Of course, the average magnitude of the observations is merely an approximation of the standard deviation of themarketindex.
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It was a stockmarketindexmade of 46 software companies whose shares are publicly traded.
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The four-year returns in excess of or (less than) themarketindexwere averaged.
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The downgrade started a sell-off in every major stockmarketindexaround the world, threatening a stock market crash in the international markets.
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For each $1,000,000 invested, the low price/book value stocks returned $407,000 more on average than themarketindexin each four-year period.
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Passive management simply tracks amarketindex, commonly referred to as indexing or index investing.
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Collective investment schemes that employ passive investment strategies to track the performance of a stockmarketindex, are known as index funds.
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However, shortly afterward, it plunged by almost 10% before rebounding, making it the most volatile stockmarketindexamong the developed markets.
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