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| | Indiantelevision.com > News Room Headlines > BBC launches global financial index (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31) |
 | | MUMBAI: The BBC has launched its own international stock market index, made up of the top companies from 10 business sectors in the USA, Europe and Asia-Pacific. |
 | | The BBC Global 30 is calculated using the share price of the largest listed company by stock market value from the ten most important industrial sectors in each of the three regions, including 'oil and gas', 'basic materials', 'industrials', 'consumer goods', 'health goods', 'consumer services', 'telecommunications', 'utilities', 'financials' and 'technology', states an official release. |
 | | The BBC's business and economics editor Daniel Dodd has been quoted in the release as saying, "What we wanted was our own BBC branded index to use as an editorial tool to help us track the health of the world economy. |
| www.indiantelevision.com /headlines/y2k4/oct/oct18.htm (257 words) |
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