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Your S&P Select Industry Indices 2025 Wrapped
Looking back at 2025, some key themes emerged and drove many market conversations. Many different themes—including the rise of artificial intelligence (AI), tariffs, risk of inflation and a focus on defense—set against a backdrop of broader macroeconomic, geopolitical and technological changes created a period of increased market uncertainty across industries. Volatility, as measured by VIX®,…
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S&P SmallCap 600: A Pandemic Case Study
Index construction matters when seeking to understand differences in index characteristics and any resulting divergences in index performance. One of the clearest examples of the importance of index construction comes when comparing the S&P SmallCap 600® and the Russell 2000. Indeed, while both indices are designed to measure the performance of the small-cap U.S. equity…
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The Continued Ups and Downs of Dividends
On May 20, 2020, my colleagues and I sought to address some questions about dividends and the viability of tried and true approaches to dividend income. During that session, Craig Lazzara, Ari Rajendra, and Howard Silverblatt of S&P Dow Jones Indices (S&P DJI) joined me to address: The current state of dividends across the globe,…
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