Index funds provide instant diversification by tracking market indexes like the S&P 500. With low expense ratios and minimal turnover, index funds reduce management costs and taxes. Historically, ...

The Daily News Sentiment Index is a high frequency measure of economic sentiment based on lexical analysis of economics-related news articles. The index is described in Buckman, Shapiro, Sudhof, and ...

Ask a beginner retail investor what they think best predicts whether a fund will outperform, and the answers tend to vary. Some point to the long-running dominance of U.S.-focused funds as evidence of ...

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Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

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The consumer price index rose 2.3% from a year earlier in December, compared with 2.4% in November, the national statistics office said. Japan’s consumer inflation remained well above the central bank ...

Lucas Downey is the co-founder of MoneyFlows, and an Investopedia Academy instructor. The Ulcer Index (UI) is a technical indicator that quantifies downside risk by measuring the depth and duration of ...

The year 2004, situated after 9/11 and before the election of Barack Obama, might have been the one that best summed up the excesses and cruelties of the George W. Bush era, particularly on television ...