nest egg index

nest egg index
 n.— «This “nest egg index,” as it was called, was conducted by A.G. Edwards, a St. Louis-based financial services company. It looked at money-saving data from 318 cities.» —“West Side or East: The battle of the savers” by Alan Julian Evansville Business Journal (Illinois) Dec. 18, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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