Its Bovespa stock index, in dollar terms, is up more than fivefold since January 2004.
EIU's index ranks Singapore tenth in terms of business costs, most South-East Asian economies are far cheaper.
The Mexican IPC index better than tripled in dollar terms from January 2003 through early May this year.
In euro terms, the metals index has lost 8% in the past year.
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The high yield index certainly yields less in nominal terms than it did around the last two recessions in 2011and late-2007 to mid-2009.
Indeed, in euro terms the all-items index has fallen (see chart).
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Emerging market currencies have increased 5% on average versus the dollar year-to-date and emerging market equities are up over 11% in dollar terms on the MSCI EM index.
The broader FTSE 250 index has been doing better, in dollar terms, for a while.
The Economist all-items commodity price index has risen by 21% in dollar terms since January 2002, its fastest rate of growth since 1994.
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Some news, such as unemployment figures and the consumer price index, is relatively easy to distribute in numerical terms.
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In the year to date, the MSCI Emerging Markets index has risen more than 20% in dollar terms.
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True, the Korea Composite Index has risen 2% this year in dollar terms but it's 47% lower than it was 12 months ago.
These data are available through a site called Google Trends, which allows anyone who cares to do so to download an index of the aggregate volume of searches for particular terms or categories.
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DigitalCoCO tracks engagement around 60, 000 hospitality terms online and publishes the results as the restaurant social media index (RSMI).
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In comparison, the MSCI World index has doubled from its lows, in U.S. dollar terms, and today is about 15% below the 2007 peak.
The FTSE MIB index of Italian stocks is down 8% in U.S. dollar terms so far this year, underperforming the 2% rise in the broader European markets, as measured by the Euro Stoxx index, and the 8% rise in the MSCI World index, which tracks global markets.
And the Colombian stock market, up 25% in dollar terms through late May, is the 17th-best-performing market index (among 317) in the world this year.
For example, if a nominee has an Index of 80, comments about that nominee are more positive than roughly 80% of all the other terms on Twitter.
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In terms of economic freedoms, the gateway to Latin America is on the rise, according to the annual Index of Economic Freedom released by The Heritage Foundation on Wednesday.
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