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...board's consumer-confidence index continued its sharp slide to 114.4 in January, compared with 128.6 the previous month. The index has lost more than 28 points since September and is now at its lowest level since December 1996. And the expectations index, measuring what the survey's 5,000 families see coming in the next six months, was downright apocalyptic, plummeting to 77 in January from 96.9 the prior month, and is now at its lowest level since October 1993. People see fewer jobs, lower investment profits, and less reason to buy anything...
...Conference Board director of consumer research Lynn Franco said what was on everyone's lips on the Street when the news hit: The expectations index is now in "territory normally seen prior to a recession." Translation: When layoffs, cutbacks, slowing growth and the r-word start to imprint themselves on the public mind, folks stop spending, and dread quickly becomes reality. (The last such sharp drop in the index? Right before the 1990 recession...
...Greenspan confidence index...
According to the NCAA News, the selection committee compares teams based on the record in the final 16 games, ratings percentage index, record vs. common opponents, record vs. teams above .500, and head-to-head results...
...Rank of David Herbert Donald's biography Lincoln on Amazon.com's sales index on December...