They delighted in learning about everything from the Baltic Dry Index (the daily number given to the price of moving raw materials by sea) to the stock of Crocs, which several of them also wore.
But the year-on-year increase in the British retail-price index was just 3.5% in January and even that number was pushed up by higher rates of value-added tax, a home-grown factor.
From there you can link to news on a specific ADR or choose to compare a stock price chart to one of a number of indexes (unfortunately, there's no emerging-market index).