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Inflation targeting was best known as a rule that instructed central banks to set – and try their best to attain – a target range for the annual rate of change of the consumer price index (CPI).
A dark-horse candidate is product-price targeting, which would focus on stabilizing an index of producer prices rather than an index of consumer prices.
In the United States, the so-called core CPI (consumer price index) – which excludes food and energy – has headed down just when it was supposed to be going up.
Since January, Russian stocks have lost 16% of their value on the MSCI index, after already trading at a 50% discount in 2013, while Brazilian and Turkish equities are up by 13% and 27%, respectively.
With MSCI now set to offer investors emerging-markets indices that exclude Russia, a massive sell-off of Russian stocks by index funds will drive down prices further.
Industrial production is falling at double-digit rates in the negative-inflation countries, and the price index for all commodities is down more than 30% over the past year.
With that, the soaring index started to plummet – and the CSRC fell into chaos.
The index has risen 69% in real (inflation-adjusted) terms since 2004, with most of the increase coming after 2007.
Samuel Morley of the UN’s Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean put together an index that graded reforms aimed at economic deregulation, trade liberalization, and opening up financial markets.
Morley’s index, on a scale of zero to one, stood at 0.52 in 1977, but rose to 0.82 by 2000.
By contrast, the terror index for Western Europe was 1.1.
Similarly, the volatility premium, defined as the price of options that insure against falls in the equity index, has fallen considerably.
The World Bank, using well over 100 indicators, introduced a composite index of good governance, based on perceptions of voice and accountability, political stability and the absence of violence, government effectiveness, regulatory quality, the rule of law, and levels of corruption.
The NASDAQ index confirms this disturbing trend: only 15 European companies are listed, compared to 498 for the US, 43 for China, and 23 for Israel.
Annual growth in the consumer price index peaked at 6.5% in July 2011.
Third, India’s rank in the World Bank’s “Ease of doing business index” fell from 116th out of 189 countries in 2006 to 134th in 2013 – clear evidence of stalled reforms.
Second, in July 2002, the city of Syracuse, New York, in conjunction with the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation, the Yale School of Management, and Realliquidity, LLC, created home equity insurance that pays out if an index of city home prices declines.
In 2017, the US Federal Reserve’s Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization index recorded its largest calendar year gain since 2010, increasing 3.6%.
Bridgewater Associates’ Developed World Populism index surged to its highest point since the 1930s in 2017, factoring in populist movements in the US, the United Kingdom, Spain, France and Italy.
Giving Democracy the FingerDENVER – Some of the most iconic – and perhaps misleading – news images of the twenty-first century were of smiling Iraqis holding up their purple-ink-stained index fingers to show that they had voted in their country’s January 2005 election.
This model brings together natural capital accounting, a human-opportunity index, a gender-gap index, measures of public investment as a percentage of GDP, a competitiveness index, indicators of shared prosperity, and disaggregated unemployment data.
Out goes the fusty old inflation-targeting regime, with its fixation on the consumer price index and disregard for financial-sector imbalances.
Still, market reaction to the announcement was negative (the EuroStoxx Banks index fell 7.5% in two days), most likely because the EBA did not include specific estimates of European banks’ capital shortfalls or outline a recapitalization plan.
The VIX index, which measures stock-market volatility, had hit 44% in August 1998, and during the euro’s first few years, it hovered around 25-30%, compared to around 12% today.
In fact, some of the governments on which calculations of the Gini index depend for data may deem it too sensitive, or not in their interest, to provide accurate information, undermining the Gini coefficient’s leading role in evaluating poverty.
Indeed, the wholesale price index – the best measure of tradable-goods prices in China – has been falling by about 1.5% annually, which suggests that the renminbi may even be slightly overvalued.
While China’s consumer price index rose 5.3% in the year ending in July 2004, this was due primarily to a spike in food prices; both before and since, inflation has been negligible.
The index that Goldman Sachs calculates every year for around 180 countries, called a Growth Environment Score (GES), is used to monitor productivity and the likelihood of sustainable growth.
The index goes from 0 to 10, with 13 sub-indices for overall growth and productivity.
Gligorov remembered looking up at his grandfather to correct him, and his grandfather placing his index finger over his mouth to silence him.
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