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The index started as an index of industrial shares, and companies with dominant overseas interests were excluded, such as the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company ( later BP ), British-American Tobacco, Lever Brothers ( later Unilever ) and Shell.
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Google announced on 31 August 2010 that it had started to index SVG content on the web, whether it is in standalone files or embedded in HTML, and that users would begin to see such content listed among their search results.
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Finally a small amount of steel was secured and the company started manufacturing steel index card boxes.
Following ideas inspired by Vannevar Bush's famous 1945 article " As We May Think ", Garfield undertook the development of a comprehensive citation index showing the propagation of scientific thinking ; he started the Institute for Scientific Information in 1955.
In February 2011 Rogers announced that he has started a new index fund which focuses on " the top companies in agriculture, mining, metals and energy sectors as well as those in the alternative energy space including solar, wind and hydro.
After an initial boom encouraged by voucher privatization ( the top was in February 1994 retroactively calculated on 1245 points ) the index started to decline fast, and ended the year 1994 with 557 points.
In 1983 it started a stock market index, called the EOE index, consisting of the 25 largest companies that trade on the stock exchange.
The index contained in the paper started from 0 for stings that are completely ineffective against humans, progressed through 2, a familiar pain such as a common bee or wasp sting and finished at 4 for the most painful stings.
IAFD itself was started by Peter Van Aarle, who had collected data on adult movies since 1981, when he began keeping notes on index cards on adult movies he had seen or were reviewed in Adam Film World.
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Although Dow compiled the index to gauge the performance of the industrial sector within the American economy, the index's performance continues to be influenced by not only corporate and economic reports, but also by domestic and foreign political events such as war and terrorism, as well as by natural disasters that could potentially lead to economic harm.
# Vendor performance ( slower deliveries diffusion index ) — This component measures the time it takes to deliver orders to industrial companies.
The main indices tracking the TSE are the Nikkei 225 index of companies selected by the Nihon Keizai Shimbun ( Japan's largest business newspaper ), the TOPIX index based on the share prices of First Section companies, and the J30 index of large industrial companies maintained by Japan's major broadsheet newspapers.
Dow's first stock averages were an index of industrial ( manufacturing ) companies and rail companies.
The late 1970s witnessed some deceleration in industrial growth, and the index increased from 921. 4 in 1975 to 1, 156. 7 in 1980.
This can be illustrated by the index of total industrial production, which increased from 4. 29 in 1790 to 1, 975. 00 in 1913, an increase of 460 times ( base year 1850-100 ).
" In 1880 I withdrew from all active participation in the political Labor Party, having been convinced that the number of hours per day that the wage-workers are compelled to work, together with the low wages they received, amounted to their practical disfranchisement as voters .... My experience in the Labor Party had also taught me that bribery, intimidation, duplicity, corruption, and bulldozing grew out of the conditions which made the working people poor and the idlers rich, and that consequently the ballot-box could not be made an index to record the popular will until the existing debasing, impoverishing, and enslaving industrial conditions were first altered.
Richardson ( 2004 ) argued, citing the Flynn effect as the best evidence, that Lynn has the causal connection backwards and suggested that " the average IQ of a population is simply an index of the size of its middle class, both of which are results of industrial development ".
The missile subsequently received the designation R-36M2 Voivode and the industrial index number 15A18M.
Blood or urine cadmium concentrations provide a better index of excessive exposure in industrial situations or following acute poisoning, whereas organ tissue ( lung, liver, kidney ) cadmium concentrations may be useful in fatalities resulting from either acute or chronic poisoning.
index and shares
It can also be achieved by sampling ( e. g. buying stocks of each kind and sector in the index but not necessarily some of each individual stock ), and there are sophisticated versions of sampling ( e. g. those that seek to buy those particular shares that have the best chance of good performance ).
Each set of synonyms ( synset ), has a unique index and shares its properties, such as a gloss ( or dictionary ) definition.
With the spread of mutual funds ( especially index funds since 1976 ), investors could more easily obtain diversification by owning a small slice of many companies in a fund rather than owning shares in a conglomerate.
The Herfindahl index and the concentration ratios focus on the market shares of companies, but these measures identify the “ pivotalness ” of companies to meeting the demand on the system.
So to take the example, if in market X company B ( with 10 % market share ) suddenly bought out the shares of company C ( with 10 % also ) then this new market concentration would make the index jump to 0. 162.
When firms have unequal shares, the reciprocal of the index indicates the " equivalent " number of firms in the industry.
If a company has more than one class of shares traded on the exchange, only the most actively traded of these will be accepted into the index ( generally this will be the ordinary share ).
The number of shares issued ( used to calculate the market cap and hence the index weight ) of a company is reviewed quarterly, on the third Friday of March, June, September and December.
with t the day of calculation ; N the number of constituent shares in the index ( usually 40 ); Q < sub > i, t </ sub > the number of shares of company i on day t ; F < sub > i, t </ sub > the free float factor of share i ; f < sub > i, t </ sub > the capping factor of share i ( exactly 1 for all companies not subject to the 15 % cap ); C < sub > i, t </ sub > the price of share i on day t ; Q < sub > i, 0 </ sub > the number of shares of company i on the index base date ; C < sub > i, 0 </ sub > the price of equity i on the index base date ; and K < sub > t </ sub > the " adjustment coefficient for base capitalization " on day t ( reflecting the switch from the French franc to the Euro in 1999 ).
Although the CAC 40 is almost exclusively composed of French-domiciled companies, about 45 % of its listed shares are owned by foreign investors, more than any other main European index.
Sub-indexes and sub-sub-indexes are computed for different categories and sub-categories of goods and services, being combined to produce the overall index with weights reflecting their shares in the total of the consumer expenditures covered by the index.
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