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Suitably chastised, Simon. I then found out the following to atone for my sins: The starting date for all of the FTSE based indices are as follows: FTSE100: 31/12/83 FTSE All share: 10/4/62 FTSE250: 31/12/85 FTSE350: 31/12/85 Smallcap: 31/12/92 Fledgling: 30/12/94 FTSE AllShare ex Investment: 12/5/97 FTSE350 ex Investment: 12/5/97 FTSE IT: 31/12/97 FTSE All Share ex multinationals: 30/9/99 Hope that's useful! Best wishes Duncan Williamson -----Original Message----- From: Economics, business, and related subjects [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Simon Foley Sent: 21 November 2002 05:56 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Indeces Neither of those responses help very much. I did some looking and could only come up with individual numbers rather than a page that gave the base year of well known indices. Eg at http://www.cats.edu.ph/~nscb5/technotes/cpi.html I found that the CPI in the US "C. Base Period The CPI series constructed by NSO since 1945 has undergone several revisions. The 1988-based CPI, the current series, is the sixth rebasing." From http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/Economic_Data_and_Tools/GDP_Deflators/data _gdp_backgd.cfm I found "ONS currently uses 1995 as a base year for GDP (ie GDP at constant prices)". It seems that they rebase often in cases where the headline figure is not the one quoted eg. RPI. Sorry to not be of much help either. Simon ==================================== Simon Foley E-mail: [log in to unmask] Phone 66 2 398 0200 Fax 66 2 399 3179 ====================================