The index is proportionally weighted based on foreign-exchange trading volume data from the Bank for International Settlements' triennial central-bank survey on global foreign-exchange market activity.
Warnock says the estimate is based on faulty data about foreign inflows of capital.
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China's Shanghai Composite Index edged up 0.2% after data showing foreign direct investment flows into the country rose more than expected.
Congress has also helped raise questions and gather data about foreign policy.
The Reserve Bank is due to release foreign-currency transaction data for April later this month, and some analysts say the intervention may have gathered pace again.
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Maisel said the FDA is working to combine data from foreign countries and the U.S. to determine which groups of patients and implants are most problematic.
But the paper's authors found that the State Street data suggested foreign investors were actually better at anticipating price changes than their domestic counterparts at least in emerging markets.
In April, Beijing said it would require foreign financial news and data providers like Reuters, Bloomberg and AP-Dow Jones to course their reports through the Chinese news agency Xinhua.
North Korean mobile phone provider Koryolink is planning to launch a 3G data service for foreign visitors and residents from abroad.
U.S. economic data due for release Thursday includes the weekly jobless claims report, wholesale trade data, and foreign holdings of U.S. Treasuries.
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Mr. Bush ordered the National Security Agency to monitor phone calls and data transmissions involving foreign nationals suspected of involvement in terror.
For example, the proposed regulations allow foreign banks to rely on data they already collect to comply with anti-money-laundering rules, the Treasury said.
About 270 new cases were reported in 2003-4, while this year so far there have been more than 500 new cases, data from the Foreign Office (FCO) showed.
David Girouard, head of Google Enterprise, said foreign governments are concerned about data stored in the U.S., and whether it might be subject to control over the U.S. Patriot Act.
Foreign governments can also monitor some data networks, cloud computing and wireless transmissions in efforts to steal sensitive information.
The inspection provisions will give foreign competitors an opportunity to garner sensitive data and conduct industrial espionage here.
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When data and systems reside in foreign locations, still more complexities arise.
Foreign and private companies look at government data with skepticism.
The data reveals that the number of foreign passport-holders resident in Germany had been overestimated.
He spent the family's savings on work such as gathering pollution data and lobbying the domestic and foreign press.
In April British members of Parliament learned that almost a year earlier the home secretary, Jacqui Smith, had secretly authorised the transfer of licence-plate data recorded by roadside cameras to foreign intelligence agencies.
Katherine Archuleta, who leads OPM, is beginning to face heat for her agency's failure to protect key national security data -- highly prized by foreign intelligence agencies -- as well as for how slowly the agency has provided information.
Properly constructed, such an FSAC screen would have the corollary benefit of establishing a comprehensive data base for over 15, 000 foreign companies, one that could monitor their activities in terrorist-sponsoring states (if any), their supply of dual-use equipment and technology to such states and profiles of their Iranian and other problematic business partners.
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The Chinese military may also have access to more accurate data, but because China has fewer satellites, it can't monitor the same spot for as long as the U.S.A preliminary version of the system's Interface Control Document, which allows foreign and Chinese entities access to its basic technical data, was made available on the system's website, beidou.gov.cn, from Tuesday, he said.
North American-centric apps also tend to lack access to the nitty-gritty data gathered by the official meteorology organisations in foreign countries.
The data reflect investments that meet the threshold for foreign direct investment, which is a final stake of 10 percent or more of voting rights in the invested company and excludes portfolio investments such as government bonds.
In both of these episodes, the data presented by Commerce to support its findings of foreign availability were flimsy and suspect.
They monitor news media, government agencies, airline Global Distribution System, corporate data bases, the Centers For Disease Control and foreign health organizations, police, fire and many foreign outlets.
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