EU-wide harmonised index of consumer prices, the gap between British inflation and those of France and Germany is smaller than on national measures.
The ministry stopped publishing its nation-wide home price index last year.
There is a wide variation around the index return which at the tail can be devastating.
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National Statistician Jil Matheson said that the absence of a UK-wide official private rental index was a "key gap" in data on the housing market.
The finance sector heavy iShares FTSE China (FXI) is down 11.5% year-to-date, the worst of the big BRIC exchange traded funds and underperforming the MSCI Emerging Markets index by wide margins.
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Instead, Orbis' management fee is based on three-year rolling performance and ranges from 2.5% if the fund beats the index by a wide margin to just 0.5% if the fund similarly underperforms its benchmark over three years.
That is cheaper than the FactSet index of all world-wide stocks, which trades at around 13 times forecast earnings.
For young investors, this extensive range of available ETFs offers a wide variety of investment choices that are not available with index funds.
The daily chart of iShares MSCI South Korea Index Fund ( EWY) is still locked in a wide triangle formation, lines e and f, but the fund is still up 5% since June 24, outperforming SPY by 3%.
The average yield to maturity from the HE00 index has compressed to 9.49%, from the wide of 11.97% at the end of November.
In Asia, China's Shanghai Composite Index climbed 1.4% as hopes of increased government spending on a wide range of investment projects lifted coal and construction companies.
The World Wide Web Foundation, headed by web founder Tim Berners-Lee, released a Web Readiness Index today that charts just how effectively the information superhighway has connected the world.
The World Economic Forum index also shows that U.S. infrastructure beats the European Union average by a wide margin!
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For investors looking to capitalize on a booming global market for wind energy, the First Trust ISE Global Wind Energy Index Fund ( FAN) and the PowerShares Global Wind Energy Portfolio ( PWND) offer a wide range of globally diversified stocks in the industry.
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Although the researchers took into account a wide range of extenuating factors, including diet and exercise regimens, smoking, alcohol consumption, body mass index, and marital status, it's possible that people who drink coffee differ from the rest of the population in as-yet unidentified ways that make them less vulnerable to disease and early death.
Target Rock released on March 19 at an EnergyBiz forum its top-performing utility in its sustainability and socially-responsible investing index: Sempra Energy, which is evaluated on everything from its generation portfolio to its community-wide investments to its overall financial performance.
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