Sentence examples for index is set from inspiring English sources
Today, Monaco's glamour index is set to increase.
The inflation rate – currently 4.8% on the consumer prices index – is set to fall in 2012.
The Fear Index is set within the mysterious opulence of a Geneva based algorithmic hedge fund.
The Nasdaq composite index is set for its seventh consecutive monthly rally, with a gain for the period of almost 35percentt.
If the trend in early trading continues, the index is set to beat its 2007 peak of 6732, with the next test the 6752 achieved in September 2000.
The index is set so that 50 indicates business is unchanged from the previous month, while figures above that indicate growth and figures below show a decline.
The October drop in the consumer confidence index was set off "by a cooling economy and apprehension regarding soaring oil prices and volatility in the financial markets," said Lynn Franco, director of the Conference Board's consumer research center.
Few bank analysts expect stocks to perform much better next year than they did this year, when the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index was set to end the year largely unchanged from where it began trading.
The mainland's Shanghai Composite index was set back 3.2%, to 1,895.82.
