The average score improved from an index number (100 is best) of 59.4 to 59.7.
Since England abrogated the gold standard in 1931 her price index number has risen by over 2000%.
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On the other hand, continued large investment gains helped 12 charities generate a negative index number--surpluses exceeding all donations for the reporting year.
Separately the Philadelphia Fed index number came in at 3.2 for July, over the expectations for a 2.0 reading and well above the -7.7 reading the index measured for June.
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The index for number of employees was slightly positive, while the average workweek index was slightly negative.
The index for number of employees dropped 15 points to 10.2.
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According to the latest China Automobile Customer Satisfaction Index, the number of faults per 100 cars made in China rose from 246 in 2005 to 338 this year.
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The second significant difference between developed market FTSE and MSCI is in the number of index constituents.
The total number of index crimes year-to-date is 79, 335, an increase of 3, 015 over the same period last year, or an increase of 4%.
The Economist has compiled a credit-crunch index, comprising a number of measures on everything from bank lending to the cost of buying insurance against default for banks, firms and sovereigns in the euro zone.
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.
Even the still-giddy Nasdaq index masks the hits a number of high-tech equities have taken.
It also compiles a Social Media Index, ranking firms on the number of online mentions they get on social media.
When light travels through glass, it slows down (the amount it slows is measured by a number called the refractive index).
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And energy represented the second cause of the elevated number, with the index up 3.4% for February and 9.8% in the last three months.
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The Talent Brand Index is a ratio of the number of people who are interested in your company divided by the number of people who know about your company.
The total number of storms and ACE Index in the Atlantic are expected to be at or below normal for the 2012 Atlantic Hurricane Season.
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The commonly used index of segregation, which measures the number of people who would have to move in order to spread themselves evenly over a city, shows that every large ethnic minority group became less segregated between 1991 and 2001.
On Sunday, a statement issued by the Frankfurt-based lender called the latest charges "regrettable" and said it "sincerely regrets the impact on the Kospi market of an index arbitrage position unwind involving a small number of Deutsche Bank Group employees".
The culprit here is a number called the North Atlantic Oscillation index.
Some companies could see the number of shares included in an index reduced by as much as a quarter.
The big economic number Tuesday was the consumer price index up 0.6% last month thanks to rising gasoline prices.
The suppliers of bond ETFs get around the liquidity problem by using representative sampling, which simply means tracking only a sufficient number of bonds to represent an index.
We also know that our economy is struggling and as little as 13 years ago, the United States ranked number three in the Economic Freedom Index behind Singapore and Hong Kong.
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In addition to a chart that compares FBIOX to health care and the MSCI World Index, it also provides the performance for a number of different time periods, as well as how the fund performed relative to other similar funds or benchmarks.
But the consumer sentiment index is still worrying, particularly the low consumer expectations number.
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In fact, retail apparel is the number one ranked industry on my Validea Value Index as we head into 2013.
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Last month, Siemens was awarded the number one spot on the Dow Jones World Sustainability Index.
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In 2012, the city ranked at number 14 in Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index.
The Nationwide index shows a less dramatic fall, but a decline in the number of new mortgage-loan approvals in July suggests that the slowdown will continue.
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