More than 50 percent on average of all these indexes is in oil and refined products. It's having a massive impact on the markets.
Quotes about indexes (15 Quotes)
The third-quarter Employment Cost Index is ... reassuring in the sense that labor costs as measured on this index remain very contained, in contrast to some other labor cost indexes.
Consumers are extremely cautious today, and that caution has not really very much to do with consumer confidence indexes. It's related almost exclusively to one item, one four-letter word jobs.
A strong payrolls number would be important for the market and could get the indexes moving as it would enhance hopes that the labor market is improving, which ties into consumer confidence and consumer spending.
The Dow Jones industrial average is not a trendy index, ... But it's an index that's proven over time -- in recent years and over the long run -- that it is highly correlated with other indexes, the broader market and the economy.
We have a plan to create several indexes, but we want to make these indexes as attractive as possible to the market.
Over the course of the year, the European markets have outperformed the U.S. I think that part of that is that the big heavyweights that drag the European indexes forward have a much more international orientation, so as global growth has begun to accelerate, I think that companies with a global footprint have been able to enjoy the benefit of that.
Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.
It's a no-news day so we've been tied to the behavior of Latin American markets and U. S. indexes, ... Volume's really low.
By body mass indexes and the public standards and the National Institute of Health and all that stuff, we're all overweight. I mean, I'm considered too big. I'm 5-10 and 180 pounds but I can't do my job at 5-10, 160. But I can't believe for a second I'm unhealthy.
These stocks have a heavy weight in the indexes. The market remains fragile. The trend of the oil price isn't clear.
Here you have a new technology, and if that technology is going to work, you must allow people to provide central indexes of the data. It's just like a newspaper that publishes classified ads.
The popular indexes have managed to reach 4 12-year highs, while small and midsize indexes flirt with all-time highs. The lack of sustainability is likely due to the senior citizen status of the bull market, now in its 41st month. The restless rotation is keeping hope alive with money shifting from energy stocks to home building to technology to financials.
Everything's playing into the idea that the stress in the economy is beginning to ease. The Fed will take that bias away from inflation and make their risk assessment more balanced between inflation and growth. I think in all of the major indexes the bottoms have sort of been made here in October, and now we're ready to advance. I don't think it's a huge advance...trends are definitely in the investors' favor.
Tomorrow is set to be another busy day on the U.K. corporate calendar and this stands to provide some direction, but U.S. economic sentiment in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina looks set to continue to dictate where the major indexes go next.