TERI plans to include Kolahoi in an index of benchmark glaciers that span the Himalayas, part of an overdue attempt to monitor the rate of glacial decline in the range.
Walczak doesn't think much of index benchmarks, either.
Research gate is announcing it's passed 1 million users Monday and has big name investors behind it, including Simon Levene of Index Ventures, Matt Cohler of Benchmark and Andrew Braccia of Accel.
"The FSA must take action but as the UK gas is the benchmark for gas traded at EU level I will be asking European commissioners [Joaquín] Almunia and [Michel] Barnier to take urgent action on cartels and price-fixing and introduce tough rules on the setting of benchmarks and indices in the commodities markets".
The benchmark index of the Taiwan Stock Exchange dipped 20.43 points, or 0.4percentto to 4,612.60.
And China is likely to benefit from a higher profile in Morgan Stanley Capital International's benchmark index of emerging-markets stocks.
The Russell 2000 benchmark index of small caps is up more than 7percentt, and the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index of larger companies is down nearly 4percentt.
The benchmark index of the Egyptian stock exchange jumped 7.6 percent, its biggest one-day gain in nine years.
The quarterly survey's benchmark index of large manufacturers, which includes about 1,200 companies, rose to plus 22 in June, from plus 12 in March.
Share prices reacted favorably, with the benchmark index of the Paris stock exchange closing up 3.41percentt and that in Frankfurt rising 2.54percentt.
The Euro Stoxx 50, a benchmark index of European blue chip stocks, ended the day nearly 2 percent lower, while the CAC 40 in Paris fell 2.04 percent.
