It's less than half an hour to the January consumer-price-index reading, and investors should be aware of the data's tendency to run a little hotter than expected as the new year gets under way.

Some countries had to be dropped because there was insufficient 1998-2000 data. For example, some of the surveys used in the CPI are based on international investor attitudes and if a country is ...

More than two-thirds of the 159 nations surveyed in Transparency International's 2005 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) scored less than 5 out of a clean score of 10, indicating serious levels of ...