To re-value the indicators of use of GDP at constant prices, relevant price indices (consumer price index, capital investments price index, etc.) and physical indicators were applied.
The two main indices of house prices are rising at markedly different rates.
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According to The Economist's house-price indices, property prices in America have risen by more than half since 1997, leaving them at record levels compared with rents and wages.
Stock prices drift sideways or fall, indices fall and trading volumes are stagnant.
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Bank share prices have crumpled again, dragging the indices into free fall.
Indicators of this confidence include rising stock prices and surges upward in major market indices like the venerable Dow Jones Industrial Average (NYSE:DIA).
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Auction house sales prices, and the means by which those sales are reached, clearly should be as transparent as possible, particularly when selected auction sales prices form the basis of art market indices.
Price indices continued to retreat, with the prices paid index fell a whopping fifteen points to 28.3 and the prices received index fell three points to 2.2.
Since the main stockmarket indices peaked late last month, falling share prices have gone hand in hand with rising bond prices.
However, given that most stock indices peaked only around mid-2007, equity prices could still take a couple more years for a sustained rebound, at least by historical benchmarks.
With the major indices teetering on the edge of important support, oil prices broke to new highs as the fighting in Libya intensified in the afternoon.
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Technically, the major indices and many stocks are forming bull flag patterns that suggest higher prices to come.
As these and even broader indices scaled new heights, many of the firms within them saw their share prices fall.
But in fact, the main reason for the two indices rising at different rates is because they use different arithmetical methods for calculating average prices.
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