Sentence examples for index spike from inspiring English sources

If you eat a banana for breakfast you're going to give your body a glycemic index spike that will shock your system, so never, ever do it.

Similar to the DH population, no consistent differences were observed between NILs for plant biomass, harvest index, spike length, spikelet number, spike yield, seeds/spike, and seeds/spikelet (Additional file 4).

On Friday, the insurance index spiked sharply, bringing it up 32 percent from its low in March.

The index spiked dramatically in 2008 as China's imports of commodities soared at a time when the supply of ships was constrained and port congestion added to demand for capacity (see chart).

Meanwhile, the U.S. Spot Foodstuff index spiked above its previous high set in 1996.

March's consumer price index is due before the open, a day after the producer price index spiked 1.1%.

The TRIN (Arms) Index spiked to 1.68 on the New York Stock Exchange, its highest reading since the May 10 pullback.

The aerosol index spiked from an average of 0.09 in 1996 to an average of 0.69 during the fires of 1997.

After hovering near its opening price between 11 AM EST and noon, the index spiked sharply, jumping almost 50 points to a new intraday high of 11,089.

Looking at the range of values, we see the index spiking as much as 4.84 and going as low as 0.194, which ensures enough variation to identify the causal effect we wish to study.

The consumer price index spiked in the third quarter of 2008 and then came down, making the comparison difficult; as of July 2009, the benchmark CPI for all urban consumers stood at 215.351, down from 219.964 in July 2008.