The business of daily deals created dozens of clones, but is too new for us to have created a category in our Customer Loyalty Engagement Index to measure them.

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Our Customer Loyalty Engagement Index covers the automotive category and we have lots of attributes, benefits, and values (including options), so usually we can accurately predict what percent-contribution a change to a car can make to engagement, as we did years ago with the 4th door on the minivan.

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We stopped measuring them as a Retail Category in our annual Customer Loyalty Engagement Index last year.

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Foliofn's model portfolios, or "templates" are designed much like index funds --to represent statistically a category of stocks, not to identify the winners.

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Just 18.7% of the issues within the high yield index are rated CCC, the most default-prone category.

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First, index fund investors have the highest probabilities of meeting their investment objectives because the returns of index funds are better than the average active funds in every investment category.

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The Internet Activity Index (IAI) at the Online Publishers Association site has historically monitored category shifts in traffic month to month.

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