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This fund goes up as the Nasdaq-100 goes down, allowing you to short-sell the index in a convenient fund. Annual returns (5 years): -58.4 percent Expense ratio: 0.95 percent
Commodity price index. A commodity price index is a fixed-weight index or (weighted) average of selected commodity prices, which may be based on spot or futures prices. It is designed to be representative of the broad commodity asset class or a specific subset of commodities, such as energy or metals. It is an index that tracks a basket of ...
Price index. A price index ( plural: "price indices" or "price indexes") is a normalized average (typically a weighted average) of price relatives for a given class of goods or services in a given region, during a given interval of time. It is a statistic designed to help to compare how these price relatives, taken as a whole, differ between ...
Price index numbers are usually defined either in terms of (actual or hypothetical) expenditures (expenditure = price * quantity) or as different weighted averages of price relatives ( ). These tell the relative change of the price in question. Two of the most commonly used price index formulae were defined by German economists and ...
The United States Consumer Price Index ( CPI) is a family of various consumer price indices published monthly by the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). The most commonly used indices are the CPI-U and the CPI-W, though many alternative versions exist for different uses. For example, the CPI-U is the most popularly cited measure of ...
Asset allocation. Asset allocation is the implementation of an investment strategy that attempts to balance risk versus reward by adjusting the percentage of each asset in an investment portfolio according to the investor's risk tolerance, goals and investment time frame. [1] The focus is on the characteristics of the overall portfolio.
House price growth was "subdued" last month as higher mortgage rates affected affordability, the Nationwide has said. Property prices rose 1.6% on average from March 2023, but fell 0.2% compared ...
Its stock price plunged 55.1 percent upon the resumption of trade. [17] In 2015, CITIC Group sold 10% stake of CITIC Limited to a joint-venture of Itochu and Charoen Pokphand for HK$ 34.4 billion (US$4.54 billion); the joint venture also subscribed new convertible preferred shares for HK$45.9 billion (or US$5.9 billion). [18]