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In Economics and Finance , an index (for example a Price Index or Stock Market Index ) is a benchmark of activity, performance or any evolution in general.

Consumer price indexes (an Inflation measurement) or a country GDP index (an Economic Growth measurement) can be used, among other things to adjust salaries, bonds interest rates, tax thresholds.

Some investment funds ( Index Fund s) manage their portfolio so that their evolution always mirrors ( Tracking ) the evolution of a stock market index.