The Conference Board, a New York-based business research group, reported Tuesday that its Consumer Confidence Index fell to 37.7 in January, an all-time low going back to the index's inception in 1967.
The GFK market research group said its consumer sentiment index fell to a two-year low in December at 4.3, down from 4.9 in November.
The worst performing industry group over the three-year period has been the DJ Coal Index, which is down almost 58%.
The anti-corruption group Transparency International puts out an annual Corruption Perception Index.
Furthermore, the widely-tracked Consumer Confidence Index established by The Conference Group, a private research organization, surged 11.2 points sequentially to 69.6% (the largest gain since November 2011).
The Conference Board, a New York-based private research group, said Tuesday that its consumer confidence index rose to 68.1 in April.
Software firm Autonomy and logistics group Exel are to drop out of the FTSE-100 following the blue-chip index's quarterly reshuffle.
In the GoTo index, LyD in Chile received more nominations than any other market-oriented group, a total of 11.
Vanguard Group, known for its low-fee funds, says it plans to launch Total International Bond Index later this year.
Kraft Foods, which is spinning off its North American grocery business Oct. 1, will be removed from the 30-stock index after the close of trading Friday Sept. 21 and replaced by UnitedHealth Group.
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In Britain, Barclays Global Investors, part of the banking group, has become the world's fourth-biggest asset manager after acquiring Wells Nikko, an index-fund provider that was itself the product of a joint venture between an American and a Japanese firm.
The Waltons were the biggest gainers of the day on the Forbes Real-Time index, which tracks the gains and losses in major public holdings of a select group of billionaires.
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