The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers is a valuable tool for understanding how inflation affects the value of a dollar. Every month, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes a new CPI ...

Learn to evaluate investment managers with the up-market capture ratio, a key tool assessing performance against an index when markets rise. Master its calculation now.

With the heat of summer upon us, we hear a lot about the heat index in our weather forecasts these days. But what exactly is the heat index and how is it calculated? "It's kind of the summer version ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) – With blistering heat this summer, you’ve likely heard a few people say “it’s not the head, it’s the humidity.” Turns out both things are true: it’s called the Heat Index. The heat ...

The Big Mac Index is a common measure of exchange rates, but can it be used to make trading decisions? Find out what the Big Mac Index is and how it works. What is the Economist’s Big Mac Index? The ...

For more than 30 years we have been wedded to the Body Mass Index (BMI) as the sole criterion for deciding whether someone is obese or not. It is used by most health authorities to classify both ...

Understanding your cost of living can help you stay within your budget. The cost of living varies from state to state and even city to city within a state. Cost of living calculators can be helpful in ...