The S & P Five Hundred index gained over twenty percent its largest increase in six years.

VOA: special.2010.01.01

The Conference Board said its consumer confidence index had its biggest jump in six years in May.

VOA: special.2009.05.29

Body mass index,or BMI, is a measure of a person's weight in relation to height.

VOA: special.2011.02.15

The Standard and Poor's/Case-Shiller Index measures home prices in twenty large American cities.

VOA: special.2011.01.24

The S&P/Case-Shiller national index of home prices rose in April,May and June.

VOA: special.2009.09.04

It was a similar story in India. Bombay's Sensex index fell to its lowest level in two and a half months.

VOA: standard.2010.05.17

The Institute for Supply Management's service index registered 46.4 percent in July, down from 47 percent in June.

VOA: standard.2009.08.05

The New York-Based Conference Board reports that its consumer confidence index stands at 54.1, up from a revised 47.4 reading in July.

VOA: standard.2009.08.25

According to the organization's press freedom index, Thailand was ranked 130th out of 175 countries in 2009.

VOA: standard.2010.07.06

Here in South Korea, the KOSPI index tumbled more than four and a half percent Friday.

VOA: standard.2009.11.27

Despite following earlier declines in Asia and Europe, the Dow Jones Industrial index managed to trim losses to close above 10,000 points late Tuesday.

VOA: standard.2010.05.25

And that's part of the reason why South Korea scores badly in the index."

VOA: standard.2009.11.05

Dr.Kausalya Pendyal tells her patients in Richmond, Virginia before they go outside to check the Air Quality Index - a U.S.government assessment of pollutants in the air.

VOA: standard.2010.08.04

After rising steadily for more than a year, the index of leading economic indicators actually slipped by .1 percent in April, according to a private research group.

VOA: standard.2010.05.20

America's battered housing sector also got a dose of encouraging news, with a national index reporting a three percent jump in housing prices in the second quarter of this year.

VOA: standard.2009.08.25