Word: indexation
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...fashionable to talk a good green game. In the S&P 100 index of large firms, 39 companies issue "corporate sustainability" reports, disclosing information on their environmental and social performance and in some cases setting targets for which they may be held accountable. Pressure from activists has led Wall Street firms like J.P. Morgan Chase to assess environmental risks when deciding whether to finance projects such as gas pipelines in ecologically fragile regions. In the industrial sector, GE comes tardy to the green party, following firms such as Alcoa, BP, DuPont and Shell, which several years ago set targets...
...greeting as many peoplestaff as well as internsas possible during the summer. Who knows, the staffers said, these contacts might be the key to a job in DC. Youll have a stack of business cards this high, one of them said, putting a considerable gap between her thumb and index finger...
...Unitas still marvels at the diving catches Berry insisted on rehearsing without much concern for the skin on his elbows and knees. When no passer was handy, Berry's habit was to run phantom patterns over and over, pausing now and then to consult the file of index cards he kept with him on the sidelines in a cigar...
...allow low interest rates to work their magic because inflation remains only a distant threat. In fact, the Labor Department announced last week that wholesale prices actually deflated in February, falling by 1.6% from January, the biggest one-month drop since record keeping began in 1947. The Consumer Price Index, which peaked at a raging 13.3% in 1979, increased only 3.8% last year. Moreover, the expected increase in U.S. economic activity, which ordinarily might send wages and prices sharply higher, is unlikely to do so this time, because factories have plenty of spare capacity and the labor force still contains...
Inflation may not be dead, but it certainly seems to have gone into hiding. The Department of Labor last week reported that the Consumer Price Index fell .4% in March, equaling February's decline. It was the first back-to-back price drop since 1965 and the steepest two-month decrease in more than 36 years. The main cause: declining energy prices, which were off 6.5% for the month...