The housing affordability index gauges the amount of a local, median-priced home (the price at which 50% of homes are more expensive and 50% are less expensive) you can buy if you earn the local median income, given current interest rates.
Inexplicably, Congress failed to index the AMT exemption amount for inflation.
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Nifty 4600 put options have the maximum amount of open interest of any Nifty index option contract as of close of market on Thursday.
That amount would also grow each year under an index of price growth.
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The circumference of your waist and most importantly, your body mass index are dead giveaways when it comes to knowing the amount of body fat you have, and the health risks you might run into because of it.
During 2008, the Consumer Price Index rose almost 5 percent and then fell back by the same amount.
That's not much, but in places like Miami, Phoenix and Las Vegas, homes have lost about a quarter of their value in the same amount of time, according to the Case-Shiller index.
As the amount of online video balloons, Chandratillake aims to have his index of it keep up.
When light travels through glass, it slows down (the amount it slows is measured by a number called the refractive index).
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The growing popularity of this sort of indexing can become a self-fulfilling prophecy as a disproportionately enormous amount of money flows into the large companies that dominate the index.
In repositioning their assets, the M100 took a marginally bullish though heavily hedged stance, pouring cash into both the iShares Lehman 10-20 Year Treasury Bond and, to a lesser degree, into Ultra Industrials ProShares, and ETF that moves at a rate double the amount of change in the Dow Jones U.S. Industrials index.
Instead they return an amount based upon the performance of an underlying equity instrument, be it an index, a hedge fund or even a single stock.
If, and only if, the amount of money Medicare spends per person goes up faster than the consumer price index, the panel will make recommendations to Congress on how to get Medicare to spend less.
In order to determine the true amount of real income when a capital asset is sold, it would be necessary to index the purchase price for the inflation that occurred between the date of purchase and sale.
To measure the amount of stress an individual had suffered over the course of his life, the two researchers used an index known as allostatic load.
If the index goes up 0% to 6%, you would earn that gain on the Spiders plus two times that amount on the at-the-money calls you bought.
In the case of an investor going long the total return of the NCREIF index, he or she would accept the total return on the NPI (paid quarterly) on a predetermined notional amount and agree to pay the LIBOR rate, plus a spread on the same notional amount.
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