Not exact matches
The most recent Global Green Economy
Index (GGEI), produced by the US consulting firm Dual Citizen, looked at 60 countries and 70 cities and ranked them based on their overall green
economic performance, which
includes energy efficiency, climate leadership, and investment in clean technologies like recycling, renewable energy, and green chemistry.
The positive
economic data, which
included the release of better - than - expected purchasing managers»
index (PMI) readings last Wednesday, and a large current account surplus in some euro zone economies, have given confidence to investors to buy euros.
Meanwhile, there will be more
economic data released this week that could influence the Fed's stance,
including a look at housing data as well as the Labor Department's Consumer Price
Index, which likely increased 0.2 % in July.
Economic data released on Monday
included China official Purchasing Managers»
Index data.
Other U.S.
economic reports expected Tuesday
include the Richmond Fed manufacturing
index and the Dallas Fed manufacturing survey.
While most of his proposals — «to abandon the gold standard, let international exchange rates float, use federal surpluses and deficits as macroeconomic policy tools that could counter cyclical trends, and establish bureaus of
economic statistics (
including a consumer price
index) in order to facilitate this effort» — are now conventional practice, his critique of fractional - reserve banking still «remains outside the bounds of conventional wisdom» although a recent paper by the IMF reinvigorated his proposals.
-- The
economic calendar in the U.S. on Monday
includes the Chicago Fed National Activity
Index at 8:30 a.m. Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank President Dennis Lockhart speaks at 3:55 p.m.
Across the Pond, it's another busy
economic calendar, with stats out of the U.S this afternoon
including the FED's preferred March Core PCE Price
Index figures, together with personal spending and pending home sales.
We developed an
Index of Sustainable
Economic Welfare (ISEW) for the United States that omitted leisure but
included environmental costs.
I also pointed out that Nigerian manufacturing was already in recession by then and noted that «all major macroeconomic
indices are trending negative»
including inflation, FX and capital markets, and jobs and warned that «the Nigerian economy exhibits recessionary conditions with Q2 growth approaching one - third of the level just one year earlier» and counselled that «the slide to an actual recession may still be averted with a strong
economic team and sound policy».
The
index will be updated quarterly, made available to the public, and will
include the
economic indicators presented at this event as well as the Pulse Survey.
The researchers took account for other factors that can affect asthma
including age, sex, smoking habits, body mass
index, socio -
economic class and exposure to cleaning chemicals.
Variables were also accounted for which could have impacted the association between common mental illness and exercise, which
included demographic and socio -
economic factors, body mass
index, substance use, perceived social support and new onset physical illness.
Though China is ranked relatively high on the Oxfam
index, we wanted to
include it in our study because of the dramatic political and
economic changes there in the past several decades.
In fact, their binaries and spread contracts cover an array of underlying markets,
including commodity futures, equity
index futures and spot forex rates, as well as
economic numbers.
The
index investment strategy team provides research and commentary on the entire S&P Dow Jones
Indices» product set, including U.S. and global equities, commodities, fixed income, and economic i
Indices» product set,
including U.S. and global equities, commodities, fixed income, and
economic indicesindices.
In response, I
included a special piece in this month's Briefly Noted section about the factors that contributed to the drop and the
index's usefulness as an
economic indicator.
Web sites that provide information on foreign markets classified as emerging,
including economic and business statistics and major exchanges and
indexes.
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including economic and business statistics and major exchanges and
indexes.
This section
includes guides to
economic analysis and forecasts and related financial and
economic data; cost of living, consumer price
index, and inflation data; bond yields and interest rates; cost of equity capital and related information such as equity risk premiums and size premiums; and royalty rates and license fees for intangible assets and intellectual property such as patents and trademarks.
The Fund's principal investment strategy is, under normal market conditions, to invest at least 80 % of its assets in securities or other financial instruments of companies that are components of, or have
economic characteristics similar to, the securities
included in the
Index.
In these almost 90 years
including a world war, several stock market crashes and other
economic and political difficulties, the Dow Jones
index climbed from about 30 % to 10,170 %.
Some of those risks
include general
economic risk, geopolitical risk, commodity - price volatility, counterparty and settlement risk, currency risk, derivatives risk, emerging markets risk, foreign securities risk, high - yield bond exposure, noninvestment - grade bond exposure commonly known as «junk bonds,»
index investing risk, industry concentration risk, leveraging risk, market risk, prepayment risk, liquidity risk, real estate investment risk, sector risk, short sales risk, temporary defensive positions, and large cash positions.
Factors that may influence the market value of the ETNs
include prevailing market prices of the U.S. stock or U.S. Treasury markets, the
index components
included in the underlying
index, and prevailing market prices of options on such
index or any other financial instruments related to such
index; and supply and demand for the ETNs,
including economic, financial, political, regulatory, geographical or judicial events that affect the level of such
index or other financial instruments related to such
index.
Nadex contracts are based on underlying asset classes
including forex, stock
index futures, commodity futures, cryptocurrencies, and
economic events.
It will invest at least 80 % of its net assets, plus any borrowings for investment purposes, in financial instruments with
economic characteristics that should perform opposite to the securities of companies
included in the underlying
index.
Topics
include: The world
economic forum in Davos, Roth IRAs, physics, characteristics of the worst performing
index funds and more.
Nadex instruments
include forex, stock
indexes, commodity futures, and
economic events.
In the weeks before the release of the Consumer Confidence
Index, a number of pundits —
including Nobel prize - winning economist Paul Krugman and U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner — were heralding an impending
economic recovery.
Mercer's Quality of Life
index measures ten key categories,
including: political, social, and
economic environment, medical and health considerations, public services, transport, housing, recreation, education, and ecological quality (waste removal, water availability and cleanliness, etc.).
Other examples
include The Better Life
Index of the Organization on
Economic Cooperation and Development, France's Commission on the Measurement of
Economic Performance and Social Progress.
Nordhaus (2005) recommends that
economic growth scenarios should be constructed by using regional or national accounting figures (
including growth rates) for each region, but using PPP exchange rates for aggregating regions and updating over time by use of a superlative price
index.
Further reasons why the UN's Covenant on
Economic, Social and Cultural Rights should be amended and an
indexed and defined living wage
included.
The report also
includes a transactional attractiveness
index by country based on past transactional activity and a weighted average of 10 key
economic, financial and regulatory drivers of M&A and IPO activity.
The
Index's inputs
include BSI's proprietary SCREEN Forced Labour Intelligence along with independent trafficking and exploitation data,
economic disparity, and countries» geographical proximity information.
I've suggested in the past here on Slaw and elsewhere that the ICESC could be amended to
include an
indexed living wage that could work to reduce some of the hardships that plague nations such such as Cambodia and as global conditions would have it — even the western nations
economic and social conditions given what they currently are.
Companies belonging to the same
economic sector are often
included into an
index, which helps the traders to understand in general the state of affairs in the field, and to realize the current stock value dynamics of the companies
included in the
index.
Economic forecasters predict that virtually all of the 31 countries included in the Index will experience positive economic growth
Economic forecasters predict that virtually all of the 31 countries
included in the
Index will experience positive
economic growth
economic growth in 2014.
SLA - level predictor variables will
include: accessibility (ARIA +), 33 socioeconomic status (using Socio
Economic Status for Areas (SEIFA) indexes, four indexes that summarise different aspects of the socioeconomic conditions of people living in an area based upon sets of social and economic information from the Australian Census35); full - time equivalent GPs; medical workers, nurses, pharmacists, Aboriginal health workers and community services workers per 10 000 population; rates of unemployment and labour force partic
Economic Status for Areas (SEIFA)
indexes, four
indexes that summarise different aspects of the socioeconomic conditions of people living in an area based upon sets of social and
economic information from the Australian Census35); full - time equivalent GPs; medical workers, nurses, pharmacists, Aboriginal health workers and community services workers per 10 000 population; rates of unemployment and labour force partic
economic information from the Australian Census35); full - time equivalent GPs; medical workers, nurses, pharmacists, Aboriginal health workers and community services workers per 10 000 population; rates of unemployment and labour force participation.
Second, we sought to determine whether the frequency of S allele carriers predicts cultural individualism and collectivism by conducting a multiple regression analysis with individualism — collectivism as the criterion variable and frequency of S allele carriers, as well as four other
economic and health factors previously associated with individualism — collectivism
including GDP per capita, inequity in the distribution of wealth (Gini
index) as well as historical and contemporary pathogen prevalence as predictor variables (Fincher et al. 2008).
Anderson, along with Harry Guirguis of Manhattan College in Riverdale, N.Y., analyzed the impact of more than 40
economic and real estate indicators,
including that
index, to develop the new NAIOP Industrial Demand I
index, to develop the new NAIOP Industrial Demand
IndexIndex.
Those
economic data should bode well for commercial real estate, which is often viewed as a hedge against inflation due to the fact that leases
include escalation clauses that often mimic changes in the Consumer Price
Index.
Long ones, according to the Conference Board, whose
index of leading
economic indicators (
including jobless claims) continued to perk up in February in the biggest increase in nearly a year.
The monthly
index measures several different
economic factors,
including goods - producing employment, personal and commercial bankruptcies, building permits, startup activity, unemployment insurance claims, labor force participation, and -LSB-...]
March 6, 2014 CoreNet Global
Economic Index Q1 2014 Corporate real estate executives at Fortune 1000 companies are optimistic about a range of economic factors — including increases in jobs, corporate expansions, and the overall global economy — for the first quarter of 2014, according to a survey conducted by CoreNet
Economic Index Q1 2014 Corporate real estate executives at Fortune 1000 companies are optimistic about a range of
economic factors — including increases in jobs, corporate expansions, and the overall global economy — for the first quarter of 2014, according to a survey conducted by CoreNet
economic factors —
including increases in jobs, corporate expansions, and the overall global economy — for the first quarter of 2014, according to a survey conducted by CoreNet Global.
And despite lower - than - average living expenses, 87 other cities
including the next nine cities on our list are cheaper to live in than Louisville, according to the Council for Community and
Economic Research's Cost of Living
Index.