The Royal Statistical Society warned that devising a new index was not necessarily the best solution.
Hence, Benchmark, a new index and ETF investment company that was set up in India by some former employees of Merrill Lynch, is excited about selling India's first ETF through the stock exchange.
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Instead, in March 2013 it will launch an additional index called RPIJ, a new version of the RPI index but using the same methods as CPI for calculating average prices.
Similar to how Google or Microsoft can consolidate the entire Web within a common index, new technologies enable powerful information mash-ups across complex and secure enterprise information.
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He and his colleagues have launched a new air-pollution index that he says captures health risks better than the official index, which has not kept pace with the latest science.
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"The global advance toward economic freedom has ground to a halt, " the index editors said in a new release.
The compromise legislation includes a procedural trigger so that the provisions only go into effect if the economy continues its recovery, using the Federal Reserve Bank of New York's Coincident index, which is a measure of New York City's economic strength.
Japanese shares were higher on Mr Kuroda's comments with the Nikkei index hitting a new high for 2013 in early trading.
Crawford also cites a declining ratio of new highs to new lows, as well as a rising Volatility Index (VIX).
In the last 60 days the company introduced a range of powerful products, including new Company Pages and the Talent Brand Index, a tool which lets companies understand and improve their external employment brand with pinpoint precision.
It also included a new formula for the consumer price index applied to some entitlement benefits, much to the chagrin of liberals.
In particular, he cited concessions that Obama made in his Monday counteroffer, including a new formula for the consumer price index applied to benefits.
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.
It also had a new formula for the consumer price index -- called chained CPI -- that wraps in new assumptions on consumer habits in response to rising prices, such as seeking cheaper alternatives, and would result in smaller benefit increases.
There are only a couple of dozen stocks among the holdings in the fund, and New Zealand is a small fraction of the world index.
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) carries a foreboding message in its new Architecture Billings Index as well.
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Over the long run, sharp traders getting out in front of these forced portfolio changes have poached at least 0.38 percentage point of annual return away from Russell 2000 index funds, estimates a new study in the Journal of Empirical Finance.
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But in the early 1970s Anthony DeStephen, a hustling ex-librarian in New Jersey, saw a market for a 70-year periodical index with all the Aentries in one book, the Bs in another book and so on.
"The company plans to capitalize on two of the most important trends in asset management: the growth of indexing and the emergence of ETFs as the preferred vehicle for investing in index funds, " Steinberg was quoted in a press release announcing the funding for his new firm, then called Index Development Partners.
And over in Moscow, a new trading record was set on the RTS Index future contract, the most liquid instrument of the Russian financial market.
Dhanda asserts that the trends in global industrial production, U.S. durable goods orders and the global ISM new order index all argue for a more cautious stance on chip stocks.
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Beijing has launched a firework safety index during the upcoming Chinese New Year holidays that advises against setting off fireworks and firecrackers in poor weather conditions, China Daily reports.
The details remain fluid, but we hear they may include a low national jobless rate, job openings as measured by the Labor Department's JOLTS index, and vetting by a new guest-worker commission.
In December the purchasing-managers index for service industries fell to a new low.
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It therefore is not warning of a new recession on the horizon, and their coincident index points toward ongoing economic growth.
Of the 20 cities tracked by the Case-Shiller index, only New York saw a moderate fall in house prices since a year earlier, down 1.2%.
The index found a 12 percent improvement in new car fuel economy, which is reflective of wholesale abandonment of V-8-powered SUVs and trucks in favor of four-cylinder compacts.
Meanwhile, there were a bunch of nice folks in New Jersey who would index the whole paper for the New York Times Index (you know, the big red books that went out to libraries).
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