Sentence examples for index suggested from inspiring English sources

Fashion, as the now familiar "hemline index" suggested, is socially determined.

For the first time in five months, the index suggested that factories were contracting rather than expanding.

David Jones of IG Index suggested the positive US retail sales numbers may also have given M&S a push.

The Markit index suggested that growth was increasing in Germany and that the recession was nearly over in France.

In contrast, the p/e ratio for America's S&P 500 stockmarket index suggested in early 2000 that share prices needed to fall by more than 50%.

The decline in the overall index suggested that some service companies may be starting to see less consumer demand, in part because of higher Social Security taxes.

On March 25th the latest results for the Ifo Institute for Economic Research's business-climate index suggested a sharp fall in economic confidence in Germany.

As our Big Mac index suggested last week, the Brazilian real looks particularly too high, particularly if one adjusts for GDP per person.

The ONS's latest private rental index suggested that in the year to October private rents in England increased by 2.5% in England, while in Wales they went up by 0.4%.

A city government survey calculating the "pedestrian volume index" suggested that since 2007, the number of people walking on New York's sidewalks had risen over 10 percent by May 2011.

The report, which combines earnings, property price and cost of living data from a number of sources to come up with an "ability to buy" index, suggested that the primary reason some groups of people have more money to put towards housing that they did five years ago is because of record low mortgage rates.