Categoria: Indices

Dow Jones Indexes announced the results of the regular annual and regular quarterly review of the Dow Jones Select Dividend Indexes and …

Results of the Fourth Regular Quarterly Review to be Effective on December 20, 2010

US Municipal Bonds: The tax-exempt and taxable municipal bond markets got rocked the past two weeks.  Yields have been driven up and bond prices down.  Driving factors are a combination of a heavy supply…

MSCI Inc. (NYSE: MSCI),  announced the results of the November 2010 Semi-Annual Index Review for the MSCI Equity Indices – including the MSCI Global Standard and MSCI Global Small Cap Indices as well as the MSCI Global Value and Growth Indices, the MSCI Frontier Markets Indices, the MSCI Global Islamic and MSCI Global Islamic Small…

Data released today by Standard & Poor’s for the S&P Healthcare Economic Composite Index indicates that the average per capita cost of healthcare services covered by commercial insurance and Medicare programs rose 7.08% over the 12 months ending September 2010.This is a slight deceleration from the +7.31% reported for the 12 months ending in August…

Dow Jones Indexes announced the launch of the Dow Jones Golden Crossover U.S. Large-Cap Total Stock Market Index. This is the first index within the Dow Jones Golden Crossover Indexes family…

STOXX Limited announced the launch of the STOXX North America 50, STOXX Asia/Pacific 50 and STOXX Global 150 indices. The new blue-chip indices take the well-known methodology of the European flag-ship indices to the North American and Asia/Pacific regions….

FTSE Group (FTSE) has licensed Global X Funds to create a new exchange traded fund (ETF) based on the FTSE Norway 30 Index.  The ETF will be the first in the US to exclusively track the performance of Norwegian equities.  Other FTSE indexes currently used by Global X as the basis for ETFs include the…

Indexes to Serve as a Basis for New Futures Contracts….

The semi-annual review of the OMX Stockholm Benchmark has now been completed. The new composition will be effective as of Wednesday December 1, 2010…..