At that point, the Bangkok SET index was more than 30% higher than it is now.
In contrast, Thailand's benchmark SET Index is trading at 17.6 times earnings.
Elsewhere in the region India's Sensex was flat, the Philippines' PSE Composite rose 0.4%, Indonesia's JSX advanced 0.4% and Thailand's SET index gained 0.2%.
Elsewhere in the region India's Sensex was down 0.1% at 19460.57, the Philippines' PSE Composite was nearly flat at 6458.01, Indonesia's JSX advanced 0.3% to 4503.25 and Thailand's SET index fell 0.6% to 1489.11.
The SET stock index is up 19% (total return in Thai baht) over the past year.
The Thai SET 50 index advanced by 1.39 points, or 0.5%, to 300.20.
The index is set to replace the Dow average on April 8 as the index whose action will be monitored for the sharp swings that trigger "circuit breakers" halting all U.S. stock trading.
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Bangkok's SET stock market index is up 7.4% year-to-date, compared to a 1.7% loss for the Bank of New York's Asia ADR (American Depositary Receipts) index.
And over in Moscow, a new trading record was set on the RTS Index future contract, the most liquid instrument of the Russian financial market.
Also, in the one 5% plus inflation surge that was in this data set, the CRB index produced a nominal compound return of 1.58% and a real return of minus 3.32%.
But as troubled euro-zone member Cyprus reopened its banks Thursday, there was little sense of panic, which calmed investor nerves and set the stage for the index's push into record territory.
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There are some other reports as well, with the ISM Manufacturing Index and Construction Spending set for release on Monday.
Goldman, then, began trading in commodities, set up a fund and an index (Goldman Sachs Commodity Index) consisting of cattle, coffee, corn, wheat, cocoa, etc.
On Wednesday, the BLS is set to release the consumer price index (CPI), which fell 0.3% in November and is expected to come in flat for December.
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What I do know is that for the limited data set I have, the CRB index produced a nominal compound return of 0.77%, a real return of minus 2.16%, a standard deviation that is twice that of Treasuries, had a twelve month period with a loss of 48.74% and had a 27 year period with a negative compound return.
Hence, Benchmark, a new index and ETF investment company that was set up in India by some former employees of Merrill Lynch, is excited about selling India's first ETF through the stock exchange.
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While investors will be served the November pending home sales index and the November Consumer Credit report set to be released on Tuesday, the big news will come Thursday when Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke gives a speech.
That's the message from a new set of data released Tuesday by the American Customer Satisfaction Index.
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In 1995 he set up his own hedge fund in New York, devoted to index options at the Merc.
The U.S. dollar index, despite a minor bounce today, remains beneath a low set last November.
The expansion looks set to continue, according to this week's purchasing managers' services index, which recorded a sharp increase in business activity in January.
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That eclipsed the index's record closing high of 1, 569.19 set Thursday.
Yet on Friday, January 26, 2013, the Wilshire 5000 Index hit an all-time record high, breaking through the previous record set on October 9, 2007.
Since the last set of British Rail fares were published in June 1995, inflation measured by the Retail Prices Index (RPI) has been 66%, according to research by fares expert Barry Doe for Rail Magazine.
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