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The point is simple: When energy prices stop falling, the overall price index will rise close to 2%.
The Shanghai stock market index soared from 2,200 a year ago to a peak of 5,100 in mid-summer and then dropped sharply, to about 3,000 now.
The Shanghai Composite, the country’s main stock index, tanked.
Transparency International’s most recent corruption perceptions index ranks the DRC 164th out of 178 countries.
And the Mo Ibrahim Foundation governance index for 2011 puts the DRC in 50th place among African countries, three from the bottom.
From Year 1 to Year 2, the country’s money income (N) shrank by 2% (from 100 to 98), while the index of average prices fell by 1% (from 100 to 99).
But the bond market is not large enough to absorb it all, so some has now returned to the stock exchanges, leading to a partial recovery in share prices, with the Shanghai index reaching 3,500.
By the time that lead appeared insurmountable, the Dow Jones index of US stocks had fallen by 800 points, and the broader S&P 500 was “limit down.”
The core consumer price index, to be released next week, is expected to show a year-on-year increase of just 1.7% – or even less, if the lower oil price feeds through from headline to core CPI.
The Fed decided to define price stability as a “two percent annual inflation over the medium term of the price index of consumer expenditures.”
The ETF was a key innovation that made it possible for investors to hold an instrument that effectively tracked the value of a specified portfolio, such as the S&P index, with low trading costs.
In both western and eastern Europe, the index sank more than in Asia or Latin America.
In the US, the WES indicator is now below the level of September 11, 2001 and so is the Michigan index of consumer confidence.
That rule takes into account the previous trading day’s closing price, as well as the “theoretical exchange rate” that would keep the index of the China Foreign Exchange Trade System, a 24-currency basket, unchanged over the previous 24 hours.
But the subsequent decline in the dollar index suggests otherwise.
The fact that Argentina’s annual inflation rate has stood at 20% or more for over a decade clearly illustrates this – and cannot be obscured by frozen utility rates and repeated manipulation of the consumer price index.
Of course, corruption is not unique to the region; but six of the ten members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations ranked in the bottom half of Transparency International’s annual Corruption Perceptions index.
Most Latin American countries feature strong economic fundamentals, and part of their inflation merely reflects a high weight for food (much higher than in advanced economies) in their calculations of the consumer price index.
The most recent value of the consumer price index was up 1.7% year on year, and the 12-month figure would have been even higher but for the anomalous decline in the most recent month.
The Fed prefers to measure inflation by the price index for personal consumption expenditure.
The Saudi stock market index is up by 78% since the start of the year, hugely out-performing the main US and European indices - and this in a region plagued by conflict, nuclear tensions, terrorism, and acute political challenges.
The Shanghai index peaked on June 12, when the China Securities Regulatory Commission tightened margin requirements.
The official consumer price index rose by 6.5% in August, but some Western economists calculate that the inflation rate is closer to 10%.
After all, the core consumer-price index is already at 2.3%, led by 3.1% inflation in services (both figures are up by more than half of a percentage point year on year).
Housing inflation, which comprises about a quarter of the CPI index, has also accelerated, to 3.2%.
Leading international marketplaces are dominated by institutional investors, a growing share of which are passive index followers that lack incentives to invest in governance oversight.
For example, Norwegian Government Pension Fund Global, the world’s largest sovereign-wealth fund, has complained about Snapchat’s inclusion in the FTSE, which prevents it from voting its shares, even as it is forced to invest, since it tracks the index.
Investors remain willing to finance the US at rock-bottom interest rates, and the nominal trade-weighted index of the dollar has not collapsed.
And, more recently, China established a “green development” index, which considers economic performance alongside various environmental factors.
(Most experts believe that a true welfare-based price index would show significantly lower inflation than government inflation statistics indicate, because official data fail to capture the benefits of the constant flow of new goods into the economy.)
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