1.   But to secure lower taxes, he said, index funds may risk their main mission -- to mirror index performance.

2.   Drug companies have been rising lately on expectations that new products will boost profits and demand from investors who seek to mirror the performance of stock indexes.

3.   Index funds give investors a broadly diversified portfolio and attempt to mirror the performance of a specific market index by purchasing every stock that makes up the index.

4.   It is designed to mirror the performance of the Morgan Stanley Capital International-Europe, Australia, Far East and Select Emerging Markets Index.

5.   Puget Sound technology stocks mirrored the performance of Microsoft and Intel Corp., which helped lead the Nasdaq Composite Index to a new record.

6.   The lackluster performance of Puget Sound stocks mirrored the performance of national indexes.

7.   The results of the state test, which was given in May, mirror the performance on another reading test given by the city school system in April.

8.   The purpose of an index fund is merely to mirror the performance of a particular stock market or markets.

9.   The trouble is, mimicking the returns of various fixed-income indexes is far more difficult for investors than mirroring the performance of the main stock indexes.

10.   Tracking stocks are meant to mirror the performance of particular units within a larger company, while reporting independent financial results.