• On the traditional measure of price to earnings it is fairly inexpensive--12 times trailing net.

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  • This is only a measure of price performance, however, and does not reflect any judgment regarding industry fundamentals.

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  • One can debate the specifics of the Ryan Bill, in particular its call for the Fed to base monetary policy on some measure of price stability.

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  • Charles Lee, an economist at Cornell University, has developed a new measure of price to value that takes account of interest rates, dividends and earnings forecasts.

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  • As a consequence, the dollar price of gold is the best, though imprecise, real-time measure of the price level.

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  • Gold is a great predictor of our economic health because as the most constant, objective measure of value in existence, its price is the single best measure of the value of the most important price in the world: the U.S. dollar.

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  • The best measure of a currency's true value is its price in gold, a standard measure of wealth for 4, 000 years.

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  • The most sensitive measure is the price of gold or, if you prefer, broad-based, nonenergy commodities indexes, both of which remain depressed.

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  • In another measure, the ratio of price to tangible book value (shareholders' equity minus intangibles like goodwill), Citi is close to typical at 3.6.

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  • This is a measure of how much the price of an option will move for a 1% move in the value of the underlying asset.

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  • TSR, which dates back to the 17th century, is simply a measure of historic share-price appreciation plus dividends paid, expressed either in terms of cash or as a percentage return.

    ECONOMIST: Valuable

  • Supporters of the measure say, however, the threat of price increases, which they say will be minimal, is outweighed by the need to protect the sick from HMOs that deny necessary care.

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  • The condition to peg off-peak fares at RPI -1, or 1% below the retail price index measure of inflation, will be written into the contract for the next rail franchise.

    BBC: Below-inflation Scottish off-peak rail fare pledge

  • Even if we were to measure UK inequality taking account of local price differences (especially, again, housing costs) then much of it would disappear again.

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  • Some argue that the 2009 deal with former rebels that bought - at a high price - a measure of peace to the Kivus was destined to fail.

    BBC: Is DR Congo's cycle of chaos unbreakable?

  • On the other hand, the price-to-book ratio is a useful measure of value, and most researchers agree that this ratio is strongly correlated with stock price performance.

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  • China's consumer-price index, a measure of inflation, rose at a slower clip in March than in February, which investors interpreted to mean monetary policy was likely to remain relatively accommodative.

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  • On rival network Twitter, many observers seemed to be rooting against Facebook and its early investors, finding a measure of glee in the fact that the price didn't skyrocket as some had predicted.

    CNN: Facebook IPO underwhelms Web, too

  • The remarkable fact is that, even though the earth's population has more than trebled in a century, the best measure of the scarcity of resources price has fallen virtually throughout that time for just about everything extracted from or grown in the earth, yet has risen, in the form of wages, for the one thing that has become far more abundant: people.

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  • From August 3-8, the volatility index (a widely used measure of market risk) more than doubled in price.

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  • The increase, described by Boris Johnson as "balanced", is 1% above the Retail Price Index (RPI) measure of inflation.

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  • In essence, the stock price is a very public measure of the performance of the firm and its managers.

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  • The increase, described by London Mayor Boris Johnson as "balanced", is 1% above the Retail Price Index (RPI) measure of inflation.

    BBC: London transport above inflation fare rises implemented

  • Nicholas Economides, of New York University, says that when firms have a measure of market power, they can engage in price discrimination, charging different prices to different customers.

    ECONOMIST: Economics focus

  • The union wants wage increases tied to the Consumer Price Index, a federal government measure of inflation.

    WSJ: Transit Workers Seek Wage Hikes

  • Before April's election Deputy Le Lievre served on the Social Security Department and said he wanted to restore the previous regime of increasing pensions by RPIX - a measure of inflation equivalent to the all-items Retail Price Index, but excluding mortgage interest payments - plus 1% each year.

    BBC: Guernsey deputy wants further pensions and benefits rise

  • So far this has been reflected less in consumer prices than in the wholesale price index, the most commonly used measure of inflation.

    ECONOMIST: India's economy

  • The Consumer Price Index (CPI) is a measure of the average change over time in the prices paid by urban consumers for a market basket of consumer goods and services.

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  • Colombia is considering whether to reintroduce a measure to require foreign buyers to deposit 30% of the price of their financial investments in the country for a year at its central bank with no interest.

    ECONOMIST: Latin America's economies

  • The Consumer Price Index (CPI), a broad measure of consumer inflation, is running about 1.7 percent per year, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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