The index has a median level of zero points, which represents no change in confidence from the previous quarter.
Apple and Google are run by feisty operators who stockpile tons of cash but refuse to split their stock to the median level of mid-fifties.
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By contrast, he said that the median income level in the US had not changed since the early 1990s.
Most Americans below the median income level pay no federal income tax (and, thanks to the Earned Income Tax Credit, the working poor get substantial rebates).
Today, unemployment is 5%, while median household income is double its 1975 level even in inflation-adjusted dollars, according to Census Bureau figures.
But, the real median household income has fallen to its lowest level since 1995.
Its median income is less than half of the state level, and it has no leagues to speak of.
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Fitch first warned in March 2012 that the UK's top rating was under threat when it pointed out that the country's debt level was "significantly above the AAA median".
Then pick an income level: low (20th percentile), median, or high (80th percentile) for your chosen household, or use any value you want.
Meanwhile, the People's Bank of China is guiding the currency higher and set the median point of its permitted daily trading band last week at the strongest level ever.
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The study found that the ice sheets are likely to contribute a median estimate of 29 centimeters (11.4 inches) of sea level rise by 2100, with a 5 percent chance that it could exceed 84 centimeters (33 inches).
Fewer than one in 10 schools, or 1, 310, are below the government's floor target of achievement - 60% of pupils getting Level 4 in English and maths and scoring above the England median for progress in maths and English.
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The low level of immigration relative to efficient levels illustrates that the national median voter views immigrants at current margins as being primarily competitive rather than complimentary, and fears that immigrants are bidding down their wages and perhaps even bidding up their house prices.
The implication of the above is that any average or mean of incomes in the top 20% will always be much higher than the median of incomes in the top 20%, which is defined as the income level with half of those in this fifth above, and half below.
At that point the median full-time wage will be 7.4% lower than it was in 2008 level.
The median new home price fell 8.9 percent from the same month in 2010, hitting the lowest level since 2003.
She calculates that for over-55s, median wealth fell from 5.7 times income in 2007 to 4.6 in 2008, returning to the level of 1995.
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