Sentences with phrase «economic index includes»

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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 iIndices» 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.

Hot Links Where to Get Investment Information on Emerging Markets Web sites that provide information on foreign markets classified as emerging, 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 particEconomic 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 particeconomic 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 Iindex, 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 CoreNetEconomic 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 CoreNeteconomic 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.