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		<title><![CDATA[Leading Economic Indicators Show A Nice Recovery, But Are They Still Relevant?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://moneywatch.bnet.com/economic-news/blog/macro-view/leading-economic-indicators-show-a-nice-recovery-but-are-they-still-relevant/1152/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The Conference Board released its monthly index of Leading Economic Indicators LEI for the U.S. this week, making a string of six positive reports. The index rose by one point, to 103.5; four of this year's monthly gains have been greater than one point, suggesting a strong recovery is in...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:34:27 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[U.S. Economic Recovery Looks to Be Gaining Strength]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://moneywatch.bnet.com/retirement-planning/blog/real-time-money/us-economic-recovery-looks-to-be-gaining-strength/127/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The most bankable of monthly U.S. economic reports in terms of the scope of what it tell us is the Index of Leading Economic Indicators -- and you should take heart in what the latest reading shows.    The index rose for a sixth straight month in September...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:38:17 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Dow Approaching 10,000]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://moneywatch.bnet.com/economic-news/video/dow-approaching-10000/352154/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 05:55:29 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[5 Reasons Stocks Are Down]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://moneywatch.bnet.com/economic-news/blog/financial-decoder/5-reasons-stocks-are-down/659/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 11:59:36 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Another Small Improvement in House Prices, and Confidence Returns]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://moneywatch.bnet.com/economic-news/blog/macro-view/another-small-improvement-in-house-prices-and-confidence-returns/1016/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 12:19:31 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Apollo Investment F4Q09 (Qtr End 3/31/09) Earnings Call Transcript]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 11:20:43 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Fundamental Indexing: Checking In on the New Paradigm]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://moneywatch.bnet.com/investing/blog/fund-watch/fundamental-indexing-checking-in-on-the-new-paradigm/203/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 11:00:43 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Are Architecture Billings a Leading Indicator for the Economy?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://moneywatch.bnet.com/saving-money/blog/home-equity/are-architecture-billings-a-leading-indicator-for-the-economy/324/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 15:35:26 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Northern Trust Corporation Q1 2009 Earnings Call Transcript]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator Instructions We&#8217;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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:13:27 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Baltic Dry Index Flat - A Sign That We've Reached Bottom?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://dw.com.com/redir?destUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fseekingalpha.com%2Farticle%2F105966-baltic-dry-index-flat-a-sign-that-we-ve-reached-bottom%3Fsource%3Dbnet&siteid=23&tag=seekingalpha]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Toro submits: This is a 10-year graph of the Baltic Dry index.  click to enlarge by Toro]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 10:42:54 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[New Ways to Construct Portfolios - Maybe]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://dw.com.com/redir?destUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fseekingalpha.com%2Farticle%2F102791-new-ways-to-construct-portfolios-maybe%3Fsource%3Dbnet&siteid=23&tag=seekingalpha]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 02:04:33 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[MSCI Bara Introduces New Indexes to Counter Russian Trading Stoppages]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 03:46:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Real Output in Mental Health Care During the 1990s]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=152374]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2005 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Capability Indexes: Mystery Solved]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=151725]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 May 2005 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Creating an Intranet Toolbox of Selective Oracle Metadata]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=242165]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2004 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Benchmarking the Returns to Venture]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=124984]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2003 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Stabilizing Returns With Derivatives: Risk-Adjusted Performance For Derivatives-Based Indexes]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=73915]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The Employee Retirement Income Security Act ERISA generally requires corporate pension fiduciaries to diversify the investments of the plan to minimize the risk of large losses, except when it is clearly prudent not to do so. Index options and futures are tools that for two decades have been used to...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[What Lies Beneath: Getting Under The Hood Of Index Maintenance]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=73921]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[For most investors, an index is a number. The number tells them something about the current state of a market for stocks, bonds or some other instrument, be it foreign or domestic. For those that have invested in an index fund, the change in that number from day to day...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Pass-Through Estimates and The Choice Of An Exchange Rate Index]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=75308]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The article examines exchange rate pass-through into U.S. import prices in 29 manufacturing industries using eight exchange rate indexes. These indexes vary by the number currencies included; whether the weight on each currency is based on total trade with the United States or solely imports; and, whether the weights vary...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2003 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Battling Rising Prices]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=157407]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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