Marking the ninth consecutive increase in the index, part of the increase was fueled by lower gas prices, according to analysts at Nomura.
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The index, part of the group's annual State of the World's Mothers report, is intended to illustrate the link between maternal and child well-being.
Tendai Musikavanhu, president of Old Mutual Global Index Trackers, part of the Old Mutual investment and insurance banking family, says there are too many variables at play to know for sure.
You can mix in other foods with a moderate glycemic index in moderation as part of a balanced diet.
These short-term global fluctuations are associated principally with natural oscillations of tropical Pacific sea surface temperatures summarized in the Nino index in the lower part of the figure. 2012 is nominally the 9th warmest year, but it is indistinguishable in rank with several other years, as shown by the error estimate for comparing nearby years.
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Index funds, too, are often forced to sell, since the smaller companies are not part of any particular index when they hit the market.
Everyone knows that healthcare makes up 4.6 percent of the CPI index but a much greater part of spending in the real economy.
The U.S. dollar index traded lower Thursday, in part due to the news of the central banks injecting greenbacks into the European financial system.
Once you get the answers back of what your newly refined algorithm is actually presenting as results then you can decide whether to let it loose in the wild and be part of creating the index that all of the rest of us use.
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Tuition fees represent a tiny part of the Consumer Prices Index, but will be making an outsize contribution to inflation for several years to come.
Cisco put together the data as part of its annual Visual Networking Index.
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House prices are not part of America's inflation index but their decline is forcing households to reduce debt (see article), which could subdue economic growth for years.
The index is derived from data that for the most part have already been reported individually.
Forecasts for both variants of the Case-Shiller Index are based on the current Zillow Home Value Index value for July, which we released as part of our Real Estate Market Reports a couple weeks ago, the June Case-Shiller home indices numbers and the national percentage for foreclosure re-sales in July , which can be found in the Zillow real estate market reports.
The Conference is a big part of the reason why the NASDAQ Biotechnology Index is up 3% through Wednesday in an otherwise down week for the overall markets.
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There is no weighting for part-time work in the U-3 index.
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Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index gained 0.8% to 20110.37, part of a 4.7% surge for the week that pushed the close above 20000 for the first time since Nov. 9.
None of these elements alone explains why British houses are overpriced by around 30%, according to The Economist's index of house prices to rents, but they are all part of the mix.
The Nasdaq Biotech Index is up 42% year to date, fueled in large part by successful clinical trials of several experimental drugs that were proven effective in stopping the spread of cancer.
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Its report grades cities using, in part, the EPA's color-coded Air Quality Index, as well as its own weighting system that ranks the severity of pollution on a daily basis.
Biotechnology is part of the health care sector, and the iShares Nasdaq Biotechnology Index Fund ( IBB) is up over 2% during the same period.
The U.S. dollar index traded higher Monday and hit a fresh two-month high, boosted in part on the strong U.S. jobs data Friday and on short covering.
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The U.S. dollar index is trading higher Monday morning and hit a fresh two-month high, boosted in part on the strong U.S. jobs data Friday and on short covering.
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The other metals-market-bearish part of the risk-off day Wednesday is that the U.S. dollar index is trading higher and hit a fresh seven-week high overnight.
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The U.S. dollar index is trading solidly higher Friday morning and hit a fresh seven-week high, boosted in part on the strong U.S. jobs data and on short covering.
Most health care costs do not show up in the Consumer Price Index right away, because it ignores employer health care expense and assigns only a 6% weight to the part employees pay themselves.
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