Nor does the index weight those 30 stocks by their size in the market.
This is how FONE breaks down: 45% of the index weight is allocated to Handsets, 45% of the index weight is allocated to Software Applications and Hardware Components, and 10% of the index weight is allocated to Network Providers, according to First Trust.
They measured height, weight and body mass index - calculated by dividing weight in kilograms by the square of your height in metres.
On the extreme side, if investors only invest in index funds, individual equity prices would move solely based on their relative weight in the index.
The higher U.S. dollar index was a bearish weight on the gold and silver markets during the day Thursday.
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The narrower Dow Jones Industrials, an even weight 30mshare index climbed 134.98 points, or 1.1% to trade at 12, 549.32 .
An index giving a greater weight to, say, China might be less useful because there are not enough Chinese bonds to buy.
Primary articles include food and minerals, and have a 20% weight in the index.
Manufacturing output, which has a 75% weight in the index of industrial production, rose 2.7% from a year earlier in January.
Friday's data show manufacturing output, which has a 75% weight in the index of industrial production, rose 2.2% in February from a year earlier.
Yi Xianrong of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences says housing costs, which have been rising fast in many cities in recent years, are not given due weight in the index (food accounts for a third of the index and housing less than 14%).
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In a Vanguard index fund Apple gets twice the weight of Chevron, even though its revenues are only half Chevron s.
Body Mass Index is calculated by dividing your weight in kilograms by the square of your height in metres.
My lean body mass index showed more fat than my weight suggested.
On Tuesday, however, the RBI pointed out that the disparity between wholesale and consumer prices had widened due to high food inflation, which has a higher weight in the consumer index.
GPs will be advised to use the body mass index, where the person's weight in kilograms is divided by his height squared in metres, to get a reading.
For example, the current reported inflation rate is only 1.6% (compared to a long-term average of about 3%), but this rate is depressed due to the 40% weight in the Consumer Price Index from housing.
Index funds are even cheaper, but most weight countries by bond market size, favoring heavy debtors.
By assigning an equal weight to each component of the index it may be that one may develop a well balanced risk reward profile.
All models were required to have a body mass index -- a ratio of height and weight -- above 18, the minimum limit considered healthy by the World Health Organization.
Output of India's eight infrastructure industries, which have a total weight of 38% in the index of industrial production, rose 2.9% from a year earlier in March, data showed Tuesday.
The FDA approved Qsymia only for obese people or for overweight people with a body mass index greater than 27 who also suffer from weight-related conditions like hypertension and diabetes.
The U.S. dollar index traded higher Monday and that was a bearish weight on the precious metals.
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It also recently launched its Wi-Fi Smart Scale, which transmits your weight, body fat and body mass index to the cloud.
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Unfortunately, the recent Journal of the American Medical Association publication analyzing life expectancy correlations to one imperfect calculation of relative weight (BMI, the body mass index) distracts readers all-too-eager to cling to its implications that being chubby is actually better.
The study, by a joint team from the US National Jewish Medical and Research Center and University of Colorado, classed normal weight as someone with a body mass index below 25, overweight over 25 but below 30, and obese as 30 and above.
The study also took into account body mass index (BMI) - a measure which relates weight to height.
Body Mass Index (BMI) is defined as the ratio of weight (in kg) to height (in meters) squared and is an inexact measure of body fat, though it supposedly establishes cutoff points of normal weight, overweight, and obesity.
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