Word: indexation
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...quarterback Brook Hart to fumble, senior defensive tackle Carl Ehrlich recovered the ball with two minutes left to seal another Ivy title. After the play, the stadium’s jumbotron showed captain Matt Curtis hugging and talking with Ehrlich, before looking into the camera and holding up his index finger to signify his team’s place in the final standings.“We were telling each other how much we loved each other,” Curtis said. “It was just an amazing play to have my last play in a Harvard uniform...
...addition, Citigroup holds $172 billion in loans to corporations. In general, corporate bonds have not fallen a lot because there have not been many defaults. The aggregate Barclays corporate bond index is down 3%. Still, because of the size of Citigroup's loan book, wave goodbye to another $5 billion...
...decades, economic statistician Geoffrey H. Moore tried to improve on the poor record of forecasters by identifying financial and economic indicators that had at least some measure of predictive power. The Index of Leading Economic Indicators now compiled by the Conference Board, which includes things like money supply, stock prices, unemployment claims and average weekly hours worked in manufacturing, was his brainchild. Its latest release, which came out on Thursday, showed a decline along the lines of the last recession...
...late Moore also founded the Economic Cycle Research Institute (ECRI), a New York City firm that compiles a weekly leading index from a secret sauce of indicators. Its latest was released Friday and showed the sharpest decline in the history of the data series, which goes back to 1949. "We have plenty of gloom," says ECRI managing director Lakshman Achuthan. "But having said that, we haven't gone into doom...
...know what leading indicators look like going into a depression," says Achuthan - ECRI has a monthly index that goes back to 1919, a period covering not just the Great Depression of the 1930s but also a severe if shorter downturn in 1920 and 1921. "The magnitude of decline this index shows at the onset of a depression is materially worse than those today...