Keeping track

Everywhere you look these days there's a new index. The financial community has hundreds of them at its fingertips to help it track the stocks of today and the winners of tomorrow. These range from the long-established and quoted-everywhere to the newly-launched and hardly-known. And as if there aren't enough already, new indexes are being introduced nearly every day - the impending arrival of the euro is not designed to ease the situation. Elliott Shurgin, vice president at Standard &