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- Premcor Inc. to Join FORTUNE 500 Index
- Business Editors NEW YORK--BUSINESS WIRE--June 4, 2002 FORTUNE announced today that Premcor Inc. (NYSE: PCO) will be added to the FORTUNE 500R Index (Symbol: FFX) after the close of trading on Friday, June 7, 2002. Premcor, based in Old Greenwich, Conn., is an independent petroleum refiner and...
- Research articles 2002-06-04
- Capability Indexes: Mystery Solved
- Capability indexes are tricky to interpret, controversial to apply and misunderstood by many. For them to be effective, management must clearly understand each index and choose the correct one for the application. It may be necessary to perform statistical diagnostic tests to determine true capability. This paper focuses on the...
- White papers 2005-05-01
- Real Output in Mental Health Care During the 1990s
- Health accounts document changes over time in the level and composition of health spending. There has been a continued evolution in the ability to track such outlays. Less rapid has been the ability to interpret changes in spending. This report applies the quality adjusted price indexes for several major mental...
- White papers 2005-08-01
- Battling Rising Prices
- Physician services, hospital services, legal costs and auto-body repair expenses continued to outpace the general rate of inflation, keeping the price indexes for most of the property/casualty industry's major business lines above the consumer price index for the period 1999-2001, although many dropped below the CPI for 2001. This article...
- White papers 2003-09-01
- Creating an Intranet Toolbox of Selective Oracle Metadata
- The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate an alternative method of allowing users to view the attributes of their Oracle Databases. This application is useful for programmers and developers who do not have access to Oracle Designer or other similar applications which allow visual representations of databases. Even though...
- White papers 2004-04-14
- Create Or Modify Tables Or Indexes By Using A Data-Definition Query
- In Microsoft Office Access 2007, it is easy to create and modify tables, constraints, and indexes in Design view, and to create relationships in two tables by using the Relationships window. Alternatively, you can create and modify these same entities by writing data-definition queries in SQL view. This paper describes...
- White papers
- Create And Use An Index To Improve Performance
- If you often search a table or sort its records by a particular field, you can speed up these operations by creating an index for the field. This paper introduces indexes and covers how to decide which fields to index, and how to create, delete, or change an index. It...
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- Northern Trust Corporation Q1 2009 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator Instructions We’ll take our first question from Brian Foran with Goldman Sachs. Brian Foran - Goldman Sachs Good morning guys, how are you? I guess first on TARP potential repayment, do you expect or have you been given any guidance to return the funds without...
- Earnings calls 2009-04-21
- Apollo Investment F4Q09 (Qtr End 3/31/09) Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator Instructions Your first question comes from the line of Sanjay Sakhrani with KBW. Sanjay Sakhrani - Keefe, Bruyette & Woods Thank you. Jim, I think you talked about the technical rally in the markets this quarter and I guess I was wondering if you think...
- Earnings calls 2009-06-02
- Home Prices in August Up Fourth Straight Month
- NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. home prices in August rose for the fourth straight month, surpassing forecasts and providing the latest sign that the hard-hit housing market is stabilizing after a three-year slump, according a report on Tuesday.The Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller composite index of home prices in 20 metropolitan areas...
- News items 2009-10-27
- MSCI Bara Introduces New Indexes to Counter Russian Trading Stoppages
- IndexUniverse submits: MSCI Barra MXB has created two new Russia indexes to mitigate the problems recently exposed with the frequent suspension of trading on the Russian stock markets during the global market unrest. The new MSCI Barra indexes will capture the performance of Russian stocks that are traded...
- External links 2008-10-17
- New Ways to Construct Portfolios - Maybe
- Roger Nusbaum submits: Is this the future of portfolio construction? Well, maybe. IndexUniverse.com had an article about Bank of NY BK creating a bunch of GDR indexes similar to ADRs but traded in the UK for quite a few countries and a couple of broad based indexes too....
- External links 2008-10-29
- Baltic Dry Index Flat - A Sign That We've Reached Bottom?
- Toro submits: This is a 10-year graph of the Baltic Dry index. click to enlarge by Toro
- External links 2008-11-13
- Dow Approaching 10,000
- The index is nearing the psychologically important mark again, but the broader economy is still shaky. MoneyWatch's Jill Schlesinger discusses what you should do.
- Videos 2009-10-13
- Are Architecture Billings a Leading Indicator for the Economy?
- Yesterday, the American Institute of Architects announced that its monthly index of architecture billings rose more than eight points in March 2009. That's on top of a two-point gain in February. Don't pop the cork yet. The monthly index of 43.7 indicates that the amount of money...
- Blog posts 2009-04-22
- Fundamental Indexing: Checking In on the New Paradigm
- A few years ago, I met a former colleague for lunch. He had just come from a conference where he heard Research Affiliates' Rob Arnott describe his new "fundamental index" philosophy, and he was quite excited about it. For the uninitiated, Rob Arnott and Wharton professor Jeremy Siegel are...
- Blog posts 2009-05-04
- Another Small Improvement in House Prices, and Confidence Returns
- U.S. housing prices, as measured by S&P's Case-Shiller index, inched higher in June. Prices were up 1.4 percent for the month, following half a percent in May. Consumer sentiment improved in August, after dropping for two months. Neither data point is thrilling, but each is another brick in the foundation...
- Blog posts 2009-08-25
- 5 Reasons Stocks Are Down
- So far, September is living up to being the worst month for stocks. With an hour left in the trading day, US stock indexes are down about 1.8% on a day where the economic data was better than expected. The...
- Blog posts 2009-09-01
- Benchmarking the Returns to Venture
- This paper describes a new index of the current and historical returns to venture-type capital. The conceptual basis for the index is the value of a continuously reinvested value-weighted portfolio of all venture-backed and similar pre-public companies. It provides a metric for private equity comparable to the S&P 500 for...
- White papers 2003-12-01
- The Game-Theoretic Capital Asset Pricing Model
- The paper presents the derivation of a capital asset pricing model from an efficient market hypothesis, with no assumptions about the beliefs or preferences of investors. The efficient market hypothesis says that a speculator with limited means cannot beat a particular index by a substantial factor. The model reveals that...
- White papers 2002-03-03
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