This time, they tracked the inmate's condition on a device known as a bispectral index monitor.
That ended in a hurry on Wednesday, as a leading index of manufacturing activity fell to a 19-month low and the ADP Employment report painted a dismal picture for jobs.
Therefore it expresses the earnings as a percent of the index price rather than the index price as a multiple of the earnings.
It is important to select foods with a low glycemic index, as opposed to those with a high glycemic index.
Crawford also cites a declining ratio of new highs to new lows, as well as a rising Volatility Index (VIX).
The first takes a low-cost, total market index fund and augmenting it with a value index fund as desired.
And so the rising tide money the Fed supposedly creates inflates asset prices in such a way as to make an index fund vastly preferable to a hedge fund.
You can mix in other foods with a moderate glycemic index in moderation as part of a balanced diet.
With or without the threat of a dividend-tax increase, investors with a dividend-heavy portfolio should consider balancing their approach by adding something as simple as a broad-market index fund, Mr. Dickson says.
Norvig's group is pursuing video search and personalized search, as well as a program to index data from library books and photos.
In fact, Morningstar categorizes more than 60 municipal bond mutual funds as intermediate, of which several use one of the BarCap Municipal intermediate indices or similar index as a performance benchmark.
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The study, by a joint team from the US National Jewish Medical and Research Center and University of Colorado, classed normal weight as someone with a body mass index below 25, overweight over 25 but below 30, and obese as 30 and above.
The question, of course, is what happens when it picks up, as it surely will (a risk-appetite index compiled by CSFB is almost as high as it was at previous market peaks).
If consistent performance is a product of skill as Mauboussin contends, than index fund investing is certainly a skillful decision for an investor to make.
Dividends, that old value favorite, will come to be seen as a company's Index Of Unwillingness To Reinvest.
But it's handy and many take the index as a barometer for success.
In addition, business executives, labor leaders and other private citizens use the index as a guide in making economic decisions.
As a result, the Index gained 1.1%, its best performance since September.
The metals index, which tends to be most closely correlated with global industrial production, has gone up by only 12%, much less than the index as a whole, since January 2002.
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But when taking the entire 500 stocks that make up the index as a whole, the multiple that is being applied as an average to all becomes less variable, although critical to assessing prices.
Yet despite the ups and downs of the last decade, prices were up 43% in the New York metropolitan area since 2001, compared with 30% for the 20-city index as a whole during that period.
But reasonably sophisticated investors can create the same product themselves by purchasing a risk-free zero-coupon Treasury bond and call options on a stock index, such as XSP options traded on the Chicago Board Options Exchange.
Using the Goldman Sachs Commodities Index as a proxy for the costs of mining (because it is heavily weighted towards industrial commodities), the real cost of mining gold jumped by nearly 50% during this period, explaining why gold stocks did not provide the leverage that gold investors expected.
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The selling across many of the commodity markets has now turned into a stampede for the exits this week, as the Reuters CRB Index, as well as the commodity ETFs and ETNs are now clearly in a correction phase.
Higher crude oil prices was likely a factor in higher manufacturing costs last month, as the prices paid index jumped to a two-and-a-half-year high of 53.2 from 45.8.
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The U.S. dollar index traded modestly lower Tuesday, as the index is also in a pause mode.
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The Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets ETF (VWO) is undergoing a face-lift as it transitions from its MSCI emerging markets index to a FTSE emerging markets index.
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In fact, an experiment showed that greater Facebook use was associated with a higher body-mass index and increased binge eating, as well as a lower credit score, and higher levels of credit card debt for consumers with many close friends in their social network.
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"We know if you play as a kid you over-index in your propensity to become a fan, " Brosnan said.
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