Sentence examples for index of stock from inspiring English sources
The exchange's index of stock prices finished the ses sion up 11 cents, at $26.27.
The VIX index of stock market volatility continues to fall, and on Friday hitting its lowest level since December 1993.
The FTSE 100, an index of stock prices in Britain, has nearly reached its all-time high.
An index of stock market volatility known as the VIX has risen to the mid-20s from record-low levels of around 10 at the start of the year.
Professors Santa-Clara and Valkanov look at the excess market return -- the difference between a broad index of stock prices (similar to the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index) and the three-month Treasury bill rate -- between 1927 and 1998.
That index hit its highest in 25 years during last summer's debt-ceiling battle and remains high (by contrast, the Vix index of stock market volatility, a conventional gauge of uncertainty, remains below its peak of 2009; see chart).
The Hang Seng index of stocks traded in Hong Kong was the biggest loser, falling 3.4percentt.
The contagion moved to Asian with the Nikkei index of Japanese stocks closing down 3percentt and the Hang Seng index of stocks in Hong Kong fell 4.9percentt.
A broader index of stocks on the Continent is off a little more than 1 percent.
When you buy a stock or an index of stocks, you are buying the future earnings of those stocks.
