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| | Index (economics) - Unipedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) |
 | | In economics and finance an index (for example a price index, a stockmarket index) is a benchmark of activity, performance or any evolution in general. |
 | | Consumer price indexes (an inflation measurement,) or also a country GDP index (an economic growth measurement) can be used, among other things to adjust salaries, bonds interest rates, tax thresholds... |
 | | Also, some investment funds (index funds manage their portfolio so that their evolution always mirror (tracking) the evolution of a stockmarket index. |
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