The companies in the mid-cap index are far more exposed to the domestic UK economy than those in the FTSE 100.
Besides the more spectacular episodes, the American navy renders many sea-lanes safe.These caveats imply that the CGD index is far from the last word on development policies.
The rate, which starts in September and is based on the retail prices index, is far higher than for most other types of finance, such as mortgages and personal loans.
If you look at Technorati, their index is far from being comprehensive.
The S&P 500 Index is far from a 10% correction, falling 5.5% from its all-time high of 2930.75 on September 20.
From there one gets the average randomised directionality index I P Q R and its standard deviation σ R. The ratio R = | I P Q − I P Q R | / σ R gives us the number of standard deviations (sd) the measured segregation index is far from the expected one in a random situation.
Nevertheless, such indices are far from perfect, mainly because they are based on assumptions that sometimes are not met and because they cannot be optimized from a computational point of view.
For the group of countries with collectivistic orientation, namely Philippines, Malaysia, Chile, Singapore, Thailand, and Taiwan, the fit indices are far away the acceptable cut off criteria (model 6).
They further argue that since the current indices are far from representing the situation on the ground and are affected by basis risk, an insurance product (e.g. area-yield index contract) based on proper sampling of individual farm yields is far more realistic.
