If the stock market survives all of these reports, jobless claims come out Thursday, and the monthly jobs report, Factory Orders, and ISM Non-Manufacturing Index round out the week on Friday.
The Consumer Price Index is out on Tuesday, along with housing starts and industrial production.
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And it felt even hotter in some places, with the heat index topping out around 115 degrees.
The Windows Experience Index came out at 5.9 -- hampered by the HDD.
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The Consumer Price Index comes out on Friday along with the Empire State Manufacturing survey as well as industrial production.
On Tuesday, the blue-chip index eked out a gain of three points, or less than 0.1%, despite declines in the broader market.
This in turn came after an unexpected decline in the manufacturing purchasing index put out Monday by the Institute for Supply Management.
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This index topped out at around 3, 300 at yearend 2006, plummeted to near 1, 200 in early 2009 but is hardly higher currently.
China's official Purchasing Managers' Index came out over the weekend, rising to 50.8 in May, compared with a reading of 50.6 in April.
In overnight news, the German ZEW economic indicators index came out stronger than expected, which supported European stock markets and the Euro currency.
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Switzerland tops the list as the best country brand globally, according to the Country Brand Index, out today from global brand consultancy FutureBrand.
The Conference Board's Consumer Confidence Index bottomed out at 84.9 in November 2001, but has reflected a sharp rise in consumer optimism--standing at 109.8 at the end of May.
The Consumer Price Index is out Friday along with Industrial Production, and the August data on Retail Sales which were up in July for the first time in four months.
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The ISM Non-Manufacturing Index is also out on Wednesday, and jobless claims follows on Thursday.
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The PMI Manufacturing Index and ISM Manufacturing Index are both out on Monday, along with construction spending.
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While online advertising growth continues, there are significant benefits of scale in advertising platform economics, in capital costs for search index build-out, and in research and development, making this a time of industry consolidation and convergence.
According to an index from the firm Rothstein Kass, female hedge fund managers produced a return of nearly 9% through the third quarter of 2012 (based on 67 hedge funds with female owners or managers), while their male counterparts, according to the HFRX Global Hedge Fund Index, choked out a mere 2.69% net return through September.
Angola ranked 168th out of 183 countries on Transparency International's 2011 Corruption Perceptions Index, and was 148th out of 187 countries in the U.N.
The boy stuck out his index finger and motioned to one of the men.
Price returns for the Barclays Municipal 10-year Index were negative seven out of 13 years.
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Transparency International's most recent Corruption Perceptions Index ranks China 79th out of 180 countries.
The July U.S. retail sales and Producer Price Index reports are due out at 8:30 a.m.
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The blue-chip index has risen eight out of the nine consecutive trading days.
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Those with developed markets in 1900 still dominate the equity landscape, comprising 84% of the MSCI All World Index, Hudson points out.
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The Shanghai Composite Index moved in and out of positive territory before settling 0.5% higher, while Japanese markets remained closed for a holiday.
UN's Human Development Index a dismal 160th out of 174 countries.
Messrs Frey and Stutzer find that a one-point increase in this democracy index, after stripping out the effects of the other variables, increases the share of people who say they are very happy by 2.7 percentage points.
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