Financial and business terms. 2012.
Future of newspapers — Newspapers: a global industry in transition The future of newspapers has been widely debated as the industry has faced down soaring newsprint prices, slumping ad sales, the loss of much classified advertising and precipitous drops in circulation … Wikipedia
Stock market index — A stock market index is a method of measuring a section of the stock market. Many indices are compiled by news or financial services firms and are used to benchmark the performance of portfolios such as mutual funds. Types of indices Stock market … Wikipedia
Dow Jones-AIG Commodity Index — The Dow Jones AIG Commodity Index is designed to be a highly liquid and diversified benchmark for the commodity futures market. The Index is composed of futures contracts on 19 physical commodities. Unlike equities, which entitle the holder to a… … Wikipedia
List of countries by past and future population — This article shows the (absolute) population of nearly all the political countries and dependencies in the world from 1950 to 2050. This one century timespan provides a broad perspective on demographic change across the globe. According to these… … Wikipedia
Howard Broad — Infobox Officeholder name = Howard Broad order = 30th office = Commissioner of Police (New Zealand) term start = 4 April 2006 term end = predecessor = Steve Long (acting) successor = birth date = c.1957 religion = Presbyterian|Howard Broad (born… … Wikipedia
Reuters-CRB Index — The Reuters CRB Index (CCI) is a commodity price index. It was first calculated by Commodity Research Bureau, Inc. in 1957 and made its inaugural appearance in the 1958 CRB Commodity Year Book. The Index was originally comprised of 28 commodities … Wikipedia
List of countries by Human Development Index — World map by quartiles of Human Development Index in 2011 … Wikipedia
Hemoglobin-based oxygen carriers — At the beginning of 20th century excellent work of Landsteiner and co authors combine with significant progress in fields of heart and circulation physiology initiated development of modern transfusion medicine allowing that blood transfusion… … Wikipedia
Negative index metamaterials — A negative index metamaterial causes light to refract, or bend, differently than in more common positive refractive index materials. Negative index metamaterials or negative index materials (NIM) are artificial structures where the refractive… … Wikipedia
Hang Seng Index — The Hang Seng Index (abbreviated: HSI, zh t|linktext|恒|生|指|數) is a freefloat adjusted market capitalization weighted stock market index in Hong Kong. It is used to record and monitor daily changes of the largest companies of the Hong Kong stock… … Wikipedia
