The website goes on to explain the GNH index with a splatter of religious terms throughout.
The Nasdaq composite, an index with a major technology focus, is down 11.4percentthis yearar.
The Web site ranked first in the initial visibility index, with a score of 973, is www.aol.com, from America Online.
The organization maintains the International Tartan Index with a database of more than 4,000 tartans.
This year, the bank has illustrated the index with a colorful popup book on the Web site pncchristmaspriceindex.com.
Financial companies led the 10 groups that make up the S.& P. index with a 1.2 percent gain.
The Standard & Poor's 500-stock index, with a hefty weighting of technology companies, sank 20.60 points, or 1.4percentto to 1,487.92.
Again, there were four days up and four down, leaving the index with a minuscule gain of 0.1percentt for the period.
In Germany, the year got off to the most boring start since 1990 for the DAX index, with a range of 13.1percentt.
Cisco Systems, the maker of equipment that powers the Internet, helped lift the tech-packed index with a 99-cent gain, to $18.51.
Exelon, a company that includes the old Philadelphia Electric and Commonwealth Edison companies, paced the index with a gain of 102percentt.
