What is an index? It’s hard to say these days. An index used to be a broad measure of market value. Today, it appears to mean any list of securities that are configured and managed in any way. This ...

The Misery Index, otherwise known as the Economic Discomfort Index, is used to measure overall hardship in an economy. It is a back-of-envelope calculation that putatively indicates how the average ...

A stock index is a group of shares that are used to give an indication of a sector, exchange or economy. Usually, a stock index is made up of a set number of the top shares from a given exchange. As a ...

Index futures are futures contracts where the underlying asset is a stock index. These financial derivatives allow investors to buy or sell the future value of a stock index at a predetermined price ...

Investors have two primary emotions, fear and greed, according to CNN Money. The news service believes in this so much that it has created a metric around the idea. The Fear and Greed Index measures ...

Recent market volatility has increased investors’ appetite for strategies that lower risk. Enter defined-outcome exchange-traded funds, otherwise known as “buffer ETFs,” which claim to shield ...

The Housing Affordability Index is a measure that indicates whether an American household is able to afford the purchase of a “typical” single-family home. The Housing Affordability Index measures ...

In trading, an index is a grouping of financial assets that are used to give a performance indicator of a particular sector. The plural term is indices. As indices are only indicators of the ...