Still, majors like Gazprom are beating the local index, up 3.3% YTD ending June 2.
Over the past year the stock price of Hong Kong-listed VTech has more than doubled, at a time when the local Hang Seng index has plummeted and local real estate values have collapsed.
Brazil joined the investment grade club in April and May 2008, sending the local Bovespa stock index to an all time high before profit taking took it lower in the summer of 2008.
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Still, the CAC 40 index is widely used by local funds as a benchmark, Mr. Burnand said.
The housing affordability index gauges the amount of a local, median-priced home (the price at which 50% of homes are more expensive and 50% are less expensive) you can buy if you earn the local median income, given current interest rates.
The Environmental Protection Agency, together with other federal, state, local, and tribal agencies, developed AIRNow.gov, offering the public daily Air Quality Index forecasts and real-time Air Quality Index conditions for over 300 cities across the country as well as links to detailed state and local air quality cites.
He holds emerging market equities through the Vanguard MSCI Emerging Markets Index (VWO) ETF and emerging market local currency bond funds.
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This module offers six headline stories from local news sites and a link through to the news index from the same site.
But the company challenged the new index methodology in the courts, where a local judge decided that Elektra should be exempt from the new rules.
Morgan GBI-EMG Core Index, which in turn tracks the performance of local currency bonds issued by emerging market governments.
The government has its own monthly house price index, issued by the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG).
Grant Robinson, medical director for Aneurin Bevan Local Health Board, said the inconsistencies in coding made it difficult to turn the index into a league table.
Local mutual funds, hurt by the recent market slump, might also like the hedge that index-futures can offer.
If so, local business may start to fall out of love with Mr Kirchner: the Buenos Aires stock-exchange index fell 5.9% in the two days after Ms Miceli's appointment.
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Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index also finished 0.3% higher at 22619.18, though there were declines in local property developers.
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