Word: indexable
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...Even before Wall Street's opening slump of 1.66%, prices on European exchanges suffered serious erosion, with London's FTSE 100 down 4.2%, Paris' CAC 40 by 3.6%, and Frankfurt's Dax index 2.8%. The trio closed Monday trading with losses of 5.33%, 4.48%, and 3.48% respectively. The European shrinkage followed Asia's lead, with Tokyo's Nikkei index dropping 3.8%, Hong Kong's Hang Seng off 3.9%, Sydney's All Ordinaries falling 2.8%, and Mumbai's BSE Sensex down 3.69%. (See pictures of the global financial crisis...
...China's efforts to counter the economic slump seem to have turned more positive." The happy mood also showed up in Chinese stocks. By mid-February, the Shanghai stock market had surged more than 30% since the beginning of the year, making it the world's best performer. (The index has fallen off slightly since.) (See 10 things to do in Shanghai...
...These optimists are focusing on some surprising data emerging from the Chinese economy. The purchasing managers index (PMI) - a measure of the health of the manufacturing sector - has inched upward since November, indicating that China's important industrial sector isn't decelerating as quickly as it did in the preceding months. Most important, Chinese banks doled out nearly $240 billion of new loans in January - a one-month record. Some economists have taken these data as evidence that China's economy has already bottomed out. Merrill Lynch economists Ting Lu and T.J. Bond reaffirmed their bullish 8% GDP-growth estimate...
...When the reading was done, the researchers asked the students to describe their own moods and, significantly, their feelings about Donald. In general, those who had extended the middle finger while reading were less happy than the ones who had held out the index finger. What's more, they were also likelier not to care very much for Donald - or at least to describe him as a hostile person...
...thumbs-up gesture worked just the other way. When the researchers repeated the experiment, this time with 74 other students who were asked to raise either the thumb or the index finger, Donald's good-conduct marks went way up. Those results, however, were not uniform across the entire group. Women were much more positively affected by raising their thumbs than men were - a difference that did not emerge in the middle finger study. This was not entirely surprising to the researchers...