To help determine what a country's brand value is, Anholt created the Nation Brands Index, a survey that ranks 50 countries on how they are perceived overseas.

VOA: standard.2009.11.05

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

VOA: special.2010.01.01

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

Guinea Bissau has Africa's second lowest rating on the U.N.'s Human Development Index measuring life expectancy,education, and standards of living.

VOA: standard.2009.04.24

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

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

VOA: standard.2010.07.06

Fears of a wider-ranging debt default affecting other banks drove Japan's Nikkei index down two percent.

VOA: standard.2009.11.27

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

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