The index is proportionally weighted based on foreign-exchange trading volume data from the Bank for International Settlements' triennial central-bank survey on global foreign-exchange market activity.
Warnock says the estimate is based on faulty data about foreign inflows of capital.
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China's Shanghai Composite Index edged up 0.2% after data showing foreign direct investment flows into the country rose more than expected.
Congress has also helped raise questions and gather data about foreign policy.
The Reserve Bank is due to release foreign-currency transaction data for April later this month, and some analysts say the intervention may have gathered pace again.
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Maisel said the FDA is working to combine data from foreign countries and the U.S. to determine which groups of patients and implants are most problematic.
In April, Beijing said it would require foreign financial news and data providers like Reuters, Bloomberg and AP-Dow Jones to course their reports through the Chinese news agency Xinhua.
North Korean mobile phone provider Koryolink is planning to launch a 3G data service for foreign visitors and residents from abroad.
U.S. economic data due for release Thursday includes the weekly jobless claims report, wholesale trade data, and foreign holdings of U.S. Treasuries.
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Mr. Bush ordered the National Security Agency to monitor phone calls and data transmissions involving foreign nationals suspected of involvement in terror.
For example, the proposed regulations allow foreign banks to rely on data they already collect to comply with anti-money-laundering rules, the Treasury said.
About 270 new cases were reported in 2003-4, while this year so far there have been more than 500 new cases, data from the Foreign Office (FCO) showed.
David Girouard, head of Google Enterprise, said foreign governments are concerned about data stored in the U.S., and whether it might be subject to control over the U.S. Patriot Act.
Foreign governments can also monitor some data networks, cloud computing and wireless transmissions in efforts to steal sensitive information.
When data and systems reside in foreign locations, still more complexities arise.
Foreign and private companies look at government data with skepticism.
The data reveals that the number of foreign passport-holders resident in Germany had been overestimated.
He spent the family's savings on work such as gathering pollution data and lobbying the domestic and foreign press.
In April British members of Parliament learned that almost a year earlier the home secretary, Jacqui Smith, had secretly authorised the transfer of licence-plate data recorded by roadside cameras to foreign intelligence agencies.
Katherine Archuleta, who leads OPM, is beginning to face heat for her agency's failure to protect key national security data -- highly prized by foreign intelligence agencies -- as well as for how slowly the agency has provided information.
North American-centric apps also tend to lack access to the nitty-gritty data gathered by the official meteorology organisations in foreign countries.
The data reflect investments that meet the threshold for foreign direct investment, which is a final stake of 10 percent or more of voting rights in the invested company and excludes portfolio investments such as government bonds.
In both of these episodes, the data presented by Commerce to support its findings of foreign availability were flimsy and suspect.
They monitor news media, government agencies, airline Global Distribution System, corporate data bases, the Centers For Disease Control and foreign health organizations, police, fire and many foreign outlets.
Despite the excellent new data, the three economists say the evidence about whether foreign institutions move markets is still inconclusive.
The solid U.S. economic data should continue to be good for equities, especially the many foreign equities linked to U.S. growth prospects.
She collected data on 761 manufacturing firms operating in Spain, examined which ones were foreign hands and what their innovation output was in terms of new products introduced in the market.
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Second, U.S. foreign policy cannot be either effectively conceived or successfully executed on the basis of polling data, focus groups or less sophisticated means of determining in which way the political winds are blowing.
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