Next Tuesday, the November 10- and 20-City Composite Case Shiller Home Price Indices will be released.
The Case-Shiller Composite Home Price Indices for September will be released on Tuesday, the 29th of November.
Several price indices point to stabilising house values, which should buoy up property-tax revenues and education budgets.
The picture is complicated by the differences between the two main house-price indices, compiled by leading lenders.
To start with, he is creating art-price indices so that art can be compared with other investment-grade assets.
The July 10- and 20-City Composite Case-Shiller Home Price Indices are set to be released on Tuesday, Sept. 27.
That may be why Guillermo Moreno, the thuggish commerce secretary, is moving to stamp out the unofficial, but widely trusted, price indices.
Although a stock-picker who underperforms benchmark share-price indices will find himself out of a job, there are no benchmarks for investment consultants themselves.
Mr Shiller himself has been involved in launching derivatives linked to home-price indices for both large and small investors, but with limited success to date.
Price indices continued to retreat, with the prices paid index fell a whopping fifteen points to 28.3 and the prices received index fell three points to 2.2.
To re-value the indicators of use of GDP at constant prices, relevant price indices (consumer price index, capital investments price index, etc.) and physical indicators were applied.
Government reports showing gains in both the Producer and Consumer Price indices showed that energy and food costs are causing many consumers to tighten their belts this year.
According to The Economist's house-price indices, property prices in America have risen by more than half since 1997, leaving them at record levels compared with rents and wages.
To back these claims up, the authors constructed price indices for 12 income groups, using official figures and detailed private information on the spending habits of different households.
They then calculate food-price indices that are skewed towards calorie-dense foods (so a change in the price of butter has more impact than a change in the price of vegetables).
Moreover, during the three months ending January, the rate of advance in the producer price indices for intermediate products, and finished goods have all accelerated into double digit annual rates of advance.
Professor Shiller, famous economist and one of the developers of the widely followed Case-Shiller Home Price Indices, asked the financial industry to take advantage of the historic opportunity created by the global financial crisis.
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We think it has to be accepted that the power of the Dow or Nikkei 225 are such powerful, established totems in global finance that it unlikely that clients will refrain from using equal or price weighting indices nor will they walk away from cap weighting.
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There is little doubt in my mind that the initial sell programs were run to work some arbitrage angle on the differing price levels on the indices.
Like Mr Kerviel, who used his knowledge of the bank's plumbing to create fictitious trades to cover his tracks, Mr Adoboli is alleged by sources close to an internal investigation of the affair to have bet the bank's money on the future price of various stock indices and to have then hidden these moves by creating offsetting fake transactions.
Strength is obviously a positive for bulls, but I would caution against chasing the indices at these price levels.
There seems to be no immediate pass-through from the higher oil price into the domestic confidence indices and output and demand indicators.
First and foremost, the two indices use different averaging formulae when calculating price changes for each individual item.
However, for the recent month of January, the same mining indices have been able to keep up with the price of gold bullion, which is up roughly ten percent.
In 2011, the main indices for senior gold mining stocks were down over fifteen percent, compared to the spot price of the metal, which had appreciated ten percent for the year.
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