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                                      <![CDATA[The S&amp;P/ISDA CDS U.S. High Yield B and Below Index led the charge, with spreads tightening by 61 basis points.]]>          
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                                      <![CDATA[The S&amp;P 500® Equal Weight Index (EWI) was introduced in January 2003, pioneering the subsequent development of non-capitalization weighted indices, which have become the dominant theme of index innovation for the past decade.]]>          
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                                      <![CDATA[The sub-par U.S. recovery is now approaching its four-year anniversary, and once again, just when we think that the economy is finally gaining some real momentum, along comes a number like last Friday's mediocre employment report.]]>          
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                                      <![CDATA[As attractive as U.S. bank returns have been recently, it seems that European banks have experienced an equal amount of pain.]]>          
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                                      <![CDATA[The first quarter ended on a happy note, as the S&amp;P 500® broke its all-time high on the last trading day of the quarter.]]>          
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                                      <![CDATA[The first quarter ended on a happy note, as the S&amp;P 500® broke its all-time high on the last trading day of the quarter.]]>          
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                                      <![CDATA[Since the mid-1950s, one of the axioms of investment management has been that, in comparison to stocks, bonds are the superior income-generating asset.]]>          
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                                      <![CDATA[One year ago, Global Markets Intelligence (GMI) Research was concerned that U.S. economicfundamentals were starting to align against the bond market.]]>          
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                                      <![CDATA[Traditionally, real estate has been an illiquid asset class. However, publicly traded property stocks, including real estate investment trusts (REITs) and real estate operating companies (REOCs), allow investors to gain exposure to real estate without sacrificing the liquidity benefits of listed equities or exposing them to the burdens of owning physical property.]]>          
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                                      <![CDATA[Winning Research Offers a New Perspective in the Active Management versus Passive Investing Debate]]>          
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                                      <![CDATA[As we pass the five-year anniversary of the date that JPMorgan Chase originally bid just $2 per share for Bear Stearns in a coordinated policy effort to suppress the budding 2008 financial
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                                      <![CDATA[The sky hasn’t fallen—at least not yet—and that produced smiles on Wall Street in February. The new definition of good news is the lack of bad news, so when the U.S. didn’t go over the financial cliff at year-end, investors celebrated by finally putting some of their money back into the market.]]>          
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                                      <![CDATA[Dividends have fascinated investors and theorists since the origins of modern financial theory. Voluminous research has been written on the various topics related to dividends and dividend-paying firms.]]>          
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                                      <![CDATA[Following the Italian general election results earlier this week, the prospect of a disjointed government and political gridlock in the country injected a large dose of uncertainty into global financial markets.]]>          
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                                      <![CDATA[S&amp;P Dow Jones Indices will make the following changes to the S&amp;P 500, S&amp;P MidCap 400 and the S&amp;P SmallCap 600 indices]]>          
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                                      <![CDATA[The song remains the same for the S&amp;P/ISDA CDS U.S. High Yield B and Below Index. After tightening 49% in 2012, the index spread tightened another 38 basis points (bps) to 463 bps in January.]]>          
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                                      <![CDATA[Investors raced back to the market in January. They were left with preferential tax rates (capital gains and dividends) following a last-minute year-end tax bill, which only slightly increased tax rates.]]>          
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                                      <![CDATA[S&amp;P Dow Jones Indices' Market Attributes series provides market commentary highlighting developments across various asset classes.]]>          
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                                      <![CDATA[The S&amp;P 500® and the Dow Jones Industrial Average, like all of S&amp;P Dow Jones indices, are overseen by committees. Some indices offered by other index providers are described as rules-based without the benefit of an oversight committee, suggesting that rules are somehow better because their indices are untouched by human hands.]]>          
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                                      <![CDATA[Global Markets Intelligence (GMI) Research was asked during a media interview last week if recent stock market performance had more to do with improving U.S. economic fundamentals or the promise of continued monetary accommodation by the Federal Reserve?]]>          
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                                      <![CDATA[Delphi Automotive plc (NYSE:DLPH) will replace Titanium Metals Corp. (NYSE:TIE) in the S&amp;P 500 after the close of trading on Friday, December 21.]]>          
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