Performance was overwhelmingly positive for the month of December across the 106 indexes tracked in this report, with all but five indexes finishing in positive territory. The average return ...

Index-fund investors aren’t supposed to worry about picking individual stocks, but when it comes to those tracking mid-cap ...

The indexes were fairly uniform in their returns with the OMX Copenhagen 25™ (OMXC25™) posting the lowest return of -4.7% and the OMX Nordic 40™ (OMXN40™) posting the highest return of -2.6%.

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In corporate news, Shell ( SHEL) gained as results exceeded expectations, while Unilever ( UL) rose 0.2% on stronger-than-expected sales. On the downside, Sanofi ( SNY) and AB InBev ( BUD) plunged.

Similarly, a fixed index annuity, also known as indexed annuity or equity-indexed annuity, offers payment or returns based on the performance of a market index (the S&P 500, for example).

S&P 500 historical performance What most people want to know when they research the S&P 500 is how the index as a whole is performing. Fortunately, the index has been tracked for the past 100 ...