The index has a median level of zero points, which represents no change in confidence from the previous quarter.
According to Zillow's home value index, the median value of top-tier homes in the Sandy Springs area is down 11.2% since July 2006, just after the Erbeys bought the house.
The Absolute Return Distressed Index has produced a median return of 10.58% through October.
How about the rate of GDP growth, the number of new housing starts, median household income, the producer price index and countless other economic indicators if they were reported without distortions caused by unstable concurrent seasonal adjustments, subjective hedonic deflators, chain-weighted substitutions, skewed sampling, delayed reporting, historical estimates in place of data gone unreported by failed companies, and other common bias factors?
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The median home price across all 500 ZIPs in our index fell 5% from last year, and experts worry about a wave of new foreclosures hitting the market.
The housing affordability index gauges the amount of a local, median-priced home (the price at which 50% of homes are more expensive and 50% are less expensive) you can buy if you earn the local median income, given current interest rates.
The housing affordability index (HAI) measures whether a family earning a median income could qualify for a mortgage loan on a median-priced, single-family home.
Starter-home affordability: Moody's Economy.com provided us with an index of housing affordability based on the cost of a median priced home in each city compared with the median income.
The Russell 2000 value index had the highest correlation and, in fact, outperformed the median fund in both the private equity and VC categories.
Although the median pension did show a positive return for the period, it significantly underperformed a simple portfolio of index funds.
But further price increases seem unlikely given the city has half the median income and three times the poverty rate of the national average and the most recent purchasing managers index showing a big slowdown.
For the full year, the median core bond manager posted a 6.13% return, 1.9% ahead of the index.
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The Shanghai Composite Index added 0.1% to 2349.59 as investors considered the implications of China's consumer price index for January, up 4.5% from a year earlier, well above economists' median forecast for a 4.1% rise.
Though median pay is expected to increase by 3% in 2012, when you factor in inflation (the consumer price index is growing at 3.6%), expect a reduction in compensation for most employees.
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