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This list of essential movies from each decade begins with the 1910s—apologies to fans of Edwin S. Porter’s 11-minute “The Great Train Robbery” from 1903—and leans heavily on box-office receipts as a popularity metric.
Chinese investors purchased roughly 432 metric tons of gold bars and coins in 2025, a 28% jump from the year before and nearly a third of global purchases in the category last year, according to the World Gold Council.
Remaining performance obligations, or the value of future cloud deals not yet delivered, is another metric that is losing its luster amid increasing capex levels.
From MarketWatch
The strategy works if your metric is clicks and viral moments.
From Salon
Drawing on previous Cleveland Fed inflation research External link, Rich examined the survey series using a metric that analyzes the extent to which inflation expectations respond to shocks and the degree to which they remain level with the Fed’s inflation objective.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
