Peters' firm created the Oppenheimer Homeland Security Index in 2004 to measure stocks involved in the sector.
The overall security index score rose to an all-time high and by more than 17 percent compared to results taken six months before, prior to the Yemeni event.
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Results released in May 2011 for the Unisys Security Index, a semi-annual survey of consumer opinion on multiple dimensions of security, showed that 56 percent of Americans saw cargo transported by air, sea or land as extremely or very vulnerable to malicious or terrorist attack.
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The ETF only represents the underlying security or index it is designed to mimic.
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Created from the DMF is the Social Security Death Index (SSDI) which is available, as I discovered, free online from several genealogy websites.
Heading the list of the unhappiest jobs is security officer, with an index score of 3.51 out of 5.
Apply the savings to all programs linked to the consumer price index -- Social Security, government retirement, income tax brackets -- and it's big money.
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President Obama has proposed replacing the regular consumer price index, or CPI, to adjust Social Security benefits with the chained CPI -- often called the cat food CPI because the index assumes that when the price of human food rises, seniors can substitute cheaper food to get the same nutrition.
The beta value is calculated by comparing price movements of the security and the price movement of the representative index over the past 2 years of weekly data.
More important, the bill decreed that beginning in 1975, Social Security benefits were to be keyed to the Consumer Price Index.
It also included a new formula for the consumer price index applied to benefits for programs such as Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid to protect against inflation, much to the chagrin of some liberals.
Adjusting the index would lead to smaller future increases in benefits (including Social Security) tied to the CPI.
From 1974 until today, each year Social Security benefits have gone up by a percentage based on the broad Consumer Price Index.
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All the search engines follow these robot directives, which, while not a perfect security solution, limit the entry points used by the bots and spiders that index the Web.
The Brand Keys 2012 Customer Loyalty Engagement Index reveals that consumers choose laptop computers on the basis of anything but security.
Complicating the budget situation is the president's decision against a commission to study a downward revision in the Consumer Price Index, which would reduce cost-of-living adjustments for Social Security recipients and trim other federal benefits.
New "investable" indexes, forthcoming early next year from the Center for Research in Security Prices at the University of Chicago, or CRSP, could reduce compulsory trading for any index funds that adopt them as a benchmark.
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Google removed the offending pages from the search engine's index Tuesday and added them to a malware blacklist that the company has been assembling since it began incorporating security measures in its search filters a year and a half ago.
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