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Already driving WMT suppliers to improve performance, in the future the index could appear on a point-of-sale label for products.
Adding salt to the wound is the future employment index fell further, by 17 points, marking a 32 point decline in the last two months.
And over in Moscow, a new trading record was set on the RTS Index future contract, the most liquid instrument of the Russian financial market.
The Ifo index of future expectations rose more strongly, creating hopes of a return to stronger growth.
"For gilt investors, future cash flows on existing index-linked gilts will continue to be calculated by reference to RPI, " said the Economic Secretary, Sajid Javid.
Adjusting the index would lead to smaller future increases in benefits (including Social Security) tied to the CPI.
But not the U.S equity market, with the VIX (the Volatility Index, a measure gauging future anticipated stock market volatility) trading at an astonishingly low level.
In recent months, Intel and Apple have issued profit warnings, sending shockwaves through the technology-heavy Nasdaq index and renewing fears about the future profitability of the sector.
The Purchasing Managers Index (PMI), which measures future plans by UK manufacturing firms, stood at 51.7 in August, compared to 52.0 in July.
But with a portfolio that is now so huge, Mr. Buffett will have a more difficult time in the future picking stocks that will perform better than an index fund, Mr. Miller says.
In brief, the theory posits that when the Dow Jones Transportation Index diverges from the Dow Jones Industrial Index, it is a negative sign for future stock market returns.
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To keep a pulse on the rapidly evolving solar market and better understand what companies need to do to better position themselves for the future, PwC has published the PV Sustainable Growth Index, a ranking of the largest publicly traded solar companies, for the last eight years.
The charity wants to use this large-scale study to create a benchmark for a "well-being index" - so that the impact of future changes in policy can be measured.
Meanwhile, the so-called Expectations Index, which purports to measure consumers' views of the economic future, rose from 70.7 to 74.6.
"We're not considering offering index funds and we're not considering offering ETFs in the near future, " the spokesman said.
And former Labour defence secretary Lord Hutton - the man the government appointed to oversee a review of public sector pensions - said linking the military pension to the consumer price index, rather than the retail price index, would mean war widows and the injured would get smaller payments in future.
The index is based on a survey of 5000 households on their confidence in current and future business conditions, current and future employment and future household income.
The resulting index is a mix of trend reportage, expert findings, data-rich analysis and future-positive prediction.
UFJ, about to be taken over by Mitsubishi Tokyo, has been one of the slowest to show improvement - one reason why its future owner's share price lagged so badly, pushing it out of the BBC Global 30 index.
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