The index works by taking a weighted average of the price of imported iron and domestically produced iron ore to produce a composite number.

这种指数通过对进口铁和国产铁矿石取以加权平均价格以此产生一个合成数。

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A growing number of analysts say inflationary pressure is stronger than the price index indicates, because it is heavily weighted toward food - particularly pork prices.

越来越多的分析家称通胀压力比从价格指数上看出来的更大，因为价格指数严重倾向食品—尤其是猪肉价格。

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Its impact on the stock market set a number of factors, including: index at the same level, the sub-index, the economic data, trading sentiment, trading price, weight, and other stock information.

它集合多种影响股市大盘的基本因素，其中包括：同级指数、次级指数、经济数据、交易情绪、交易量价、权重个股等信息。

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They delighted in learning about everything from the Baltic Dry Index (the daily number given to the price of moving raw materials by sea) to the stock of Crocs, which several of them also wore.

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How about the rate of GDP growth, the number of new housing starts, median household income, the producer price index and countless other economic indicators if they were reported without distortions caused by unstable concurrent seasonal adjustments, subjective hedonic deflators, chain-weighted substitutions, skewed sampling, delayed reporting, historical estimates in place of data gone unreported by failed companies, and other common bias factors?

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