According to a CEI Survey, 86% of buyers will pay more for a better customer experience.

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Also plotted is their Coincident Economic Index (CEI), which has continued to make higher highs since bottoming in 2009.

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Filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in August of 2007 and January of 2008, the CEI vs.

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Their chart shows that both the Leading Economic Index (LEI) as well as the Coincident Economic Index (CEI) are both still clearly rising.

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Highlighting that Dimon seemed to glued to his CEI seat at JPMorgan, much like Weill at Citi, Bartiromo asked how he kept his executives incentivized.

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The titanic federal budget the President will emphasize is only, as my colleague and CEI general counsel Sam Kazman expressed it, the tip of the costberg.

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Our story about Crescent Real Estate Equities (nyse: CEI - news - people ) described how this fallen star among real estate investment trusts was getting its act together.

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Anthony Ward is a CEI research associate.

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