In the last week or so it has been that the Empire State (NY area) Mfg Index, the Philadelphia Fed Index, and the Dallas (Texas area) Fed Index, plunged dramatically in May.
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The European Commission said its economic sentiment index for the euro area fell to 101.1 in June from 101.8 in May, its sixth consecutive monthly slide.
Away from the depressing housing industry, the reports have been of unexpected big declines in durable goods orders, in consumer confidence, construction spending, as well as slowing manufacturing growth as measured by the Chicago area PMI Index, and the national ISM Manufacturing Index.
The Euro Stoxx index of 50 leading euro-area equities has fallen by 15% since mid-March.
The Institute for Supply Management's Chicago-area purchasing managers' index for February posted a surprise increase.
The euro area manufacturing purchasing managers index reversed most of its decline recorded since April, its cyclical high, rising to 56.5 from 55.6.
"No one's watching valuations" in an index, Vicki Schultz says, meaning an index can get overweighted in one popular area, like tech in the late 1990s.
In the newer and more area-specific Regional Snowfall Index, this recent storm came in behind the No. 1 storm in 1969 and ranked a more respectable 16th with a 9.04 total score.
Inflation remained subdued: the euro area's consumer-price index rose by 2.1% in the year to November, down from 2.4% in the year to October.
Vecchio looks for the dollar index to fall back to the 77 to 76 area.
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With April expiration now behind us, the CBOE Market Volatility Index (VIX) enters the week trading in the 15 area again, which has been a floor since December.
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According to the 2002 Silicon Valley Index survey by Joint Venture, a regional development body, the area was awarded more than 6, 800 patents over the past year.
Finally, the CBOE Market Volatility Index confirmed the peak at its double low in the 30-area, as it did a round-trip back below a few key long-term moving averages and the 20-Level.
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As a result, the VIX is now being squeezed into technical support in the 17-17.50 area, a region that has provided a floor for the index since late January.
There were no surprises in the Consumer Price Index data which met expectations at 1.6% for the euro area while the overall unemployment rate for the region remained at 10%.
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One camp uses an index of isolation, which measures the likelihood that two inhabitants of an area will belong to the same ethnic group, to prove the existence of ghettos in Bradford, Leicester and Oldham.
According to Zillow's home value index, the median value of top-tier homes in the Sandy Springs area is down 11.2% since July 2006, just after the Erbeys bought the house.
The Index shows that after a record five years of home price declines, some metropolitan area housing markets are beginning to find their bottom.
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Yet despite the ups and downs of the last decade, prices were up 43% in the New York metropolitan area since 2001, compared with 30% for the 20-city index as a whole during that period.
According to the ACCRA Cost of Living Index for the second quarter of 2011, Baltimore was at 119, and the Bethesda area sat at 129.
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