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.

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This time around, writes Colas, all sectors moved up pretty much in lockstep with the benchmark index, expressing a much higher correlation (the trend that stocks will move up alongside external market movements, but not necessarily as a direct result of them) than usual.

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