On Tuesday, the National Federation of Independent Business reported its index measuring the confidence of small business owners fell in July.
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Markit's preliminary index measuring service and manufacturing activity for the currency bloc fell to 47.3 in February, below expectations of 48.5.
An index measuring the flow of goods through the U.S. by looking into diesel fuel consumption showed a slight monthly drop in April after having gained substantially in March.
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Calculating your body mass index and measuring your waist are great ways to keep on track.
It was reported this morning that the Producer Price Index, measuring inflation at the producer level, rose 0.8% in November, its biggest gain since March.
The Housing Market Index, measuring the confidence of home-builders, plunged to just 13 this month (on a scale of 1 to 100), a nine-month low.
They also estimated the students' exposure to the hormone before they were born by measuring the ratios of their index fingers to their ring fingers (a long ring finger indicates high testosterone exposure) and by measuring how accurately they could determine human emotions by observing only people's eyes, which also correlates with prenatal exposure to testosterone.
The Registry's price index is calculated by measuring only the change in the price of properties that have been sold before, to ensure a proper comparison.
But with the FAO's food price index at its highest levels since the organisation began measuring food prices in 1990, clearly more needs to be done to boost the yields and incomes of women farmers.
We stopped measuring them as a Retail Category in our annual Customer Loyalty Engagement Index last year.
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Since Hurricane Katrina, the global accumulated cyclone energy index has declined to almost the lowest level since we started measuring such phenomena in the early 1970s.
That would make a U.S.-based stock index, such as the broad-market Russell 3000, an appropriate measuring stick for the fund, Mr. Gogerty says.
Before releasing the first edition of its economic freedom index, Fraser ran a series of symposia to discuss the possibility and nuances of measuring economic freedom.
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