The NACD index offers a view of the state of the economy from inside the corporate boardroom each quarter.

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View the index on a map to find the billionaire nearest you and invite him or her over for tea.

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One buy signal: Transportation stocks are rising in tandem with the blue-chip index, an occurrence that many investors view as a harbinger of more gains.

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They view simple, low-cost passive strategies through index funds as bad for their business.

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Still, the index remains below the 50 mark, indicating that more builders continue to view sales conditions as poor versus ones that view them as favorable.

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However, the centre's optimistic view was not reflected in the University of Michigan's latest index of consumer sentiment.

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One of the few exceptions was Sri Lanka, where the Colombo All Share Index rose, proof I guess that the Sri Lankans took a more benign view about whether Nick and Dave would get it together.

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Even though the sensitive information was hidden in the HTML and not visible in plain view, the Google crawler observed it and recorded the information to put into its search index.

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