She also called on the Minister for Education and Skills to provide clarity on the position of science as a core subject indicator in schools.

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Core private-sector machine orders - seen as a key indicator of corporate investment - were down by 4% from 2006.

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But the RCI indicator is probably the one in our firm that we call our core model that most of our clients are into.

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The Fed closely watches a cumbersome-sounding index, the core personal consumption expenditure deflator, for signs of inflation, and in the last few months, that indicator has dropped within the range Bernanke has been looking for--after three years of coming in above his range.

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