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1. What data is held in the Nature Index? The Nature Index database captures all affiliation information of primary research articles published within 145 natural-science and health-science journals ...

The Daily News Sentiment Index is a high frequency measure of economic sentiment based on lexical analysis of economics-related news articles. The index is described in Buckman, Shapiro, Sudhof, and ...

The Brix scale, derived from the refractive index of a solution at 20 degrees Celsius (68 Fahrenheit), is widely known. Originally, it was established by determining the weight percentage of sucrose ...

The 2024 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) shows that corruption is a dangerous problem in every part of the world, but change for the better is happening in many countries. Research also reveals ...

When temperatures rise, this is the number to keep an eye on. By Jesus Jiménez When heat intensifies, all eyes are focused on the temperature. But often, experts say, it’s the heat index that should ...

Index funds track major financial indexes, enabling broad market investment without picking individual stocks. Investing in index funds involves choosing an index, selecting a low-cost fund, and ...

Bloomberg offers a global suite of fixed income benchmarks and custom indexing capabilities. Our family of fixed income indices traces its history to the first bond ETF which was benchmarked to what ...

EIU grades 167 countries out of ten according to the state of their democracy, and sorts them into four camps: full and flawed democracies, and hybrid and authoritarian regimes. By that measure, ...

The Magnificent Seven represent 32.5% of the S&P 500 as of March 2026, up from 12.5% in 2016. From 2016 through 2025, these seven companies achieved an 875.5% return, outperforming the S&P 500. The ...