The Sustainable Apparel Coalition's Higg Index drove such structured competition, as players with low scores sought to improve while those at the top strove to remain there.
Commodity prices reached a new high this week, according to The Economist's all-items index, driven by strong demand for industrial commodities.
In the middle of the great Asian Financial Crisis of 1997, a huge one-day fall in the value of Hong Kong's Hang Seng index drove down the market value of his holdings by close to US$10 billion, then the largest one day fall in an individual's fortune ever recorded.
More annoying, index driven fonds crying about VW boosting the Dax? Hey, what happened with Porsche , VWand the shortsellers happens every day at any stockmarket.
Once the probabilistic index driven by the given deterministic criteria has been established, this index can be used as a benchmark value to determine the transmission capacity reserve requirement.
Here is the market's version of Gresham's law: Bad indexes drive out good ones.
Over the long run, I'll be quite surprised if it does cost them any long-term profits, as opposed to the front-end cost of setting up the system and whatever the cost of maintaining it is, because if the viewers vote with the V-chip the way the Nielsen ratings and other indices drive programming today, it will change the programming, hopefully for the better.
There's a lot to give him vertigo: stock indexes driven upward by only a handful of companies (see chart); investors more attentive to a company's price appreciation than its earnings growth; risk defined as deviation from a statistical benchmark rather than potential for loss; valuations at double replacement cost.
The index gear drive potential is defined for the estimation of the quality of spur gear drives as a maximum contact ratio obtained at the contact of teeth profiles along the full line of action.
Using publicly available data, the report argues that institutional commodity investors, specifically through index funds, drive up commodity prices.
