On the other hand, continued large investment gains helped 12 charities generate a negative index number--surpluses exceeding all donations for the reporting year.

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Even the still-giddy Nasdaq index masks the hits a number of high-tech equities have taken.

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The Economist has compiled a credit-crunch index, comprising a number of measures on everything from bank lending to the cost of buying insurance against default for banks, firms and sovereigns in the euro zone.

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The total number of index crimes year-to-date is 79, 335, an increase of 3, 015 over the same period last year, or an increase of 4%.

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But the year-on-year increase in the British retail-price index was just 3.5% in January and even that number was pushed up by higher rates of value-added tax, a home-grown factor.

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Whereas double lows or previous resistance areas made themselves known to the SPX, RUT and DJIA, it was an important round-number level on the MID that came into play last week, as the index made its first-ever run at 1, 000 on Friday.

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The Nationwide index shows a less dramatic fall, but a decline in the number of new mortgage-loan approvals in July suggests that the slowdown will continue.

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From there you can link to news on a specific ADR or choose to compare a stock price chart to one of a number of indexes (unfortunately, there's no emerging-market index).

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