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He added that, in Singapore, some indicators of Chinese New Year spending that give him signals for the health of the economy are the demand for gift baskets and hampers and the queues for bakkwa — a sweet barbecued pork jerky in Singapore which sells for about $ 38 (S$ 50) per kilogram, and gets more expensive the closer it gets to the actual holiday.

The asymmetry of prospective rate moves in different parts of the curve with short rates at the zero lower bound, explicit forward guidance about future policy decisions and massive asset purchase programs may result in a higher likelihood of one - sided markets, which may in turn impair liquidity, or at least lead one to conclude from liquidity indicators that markets have become more illiquid.

This is one of several dubious indicators that, while it may appear to be accurate, teaches us more about the fallibility of statistics than the behavior of the market.

A lot of the indicators that make headlines say more about the past than the future.

If its recent business moves are any indicator, it appears Yelp is getting even more serious about restaurant businesses.

The Gaia data provides an unprecedented level of detailed information about the stars in our galaxy, with precise distance, brightness, color, and motion indicators for more than a billion stars.

However, it ticked down a bit in May and, more importantly (this indicator is also noisy), is still about 2 percentage points below its pre-recession peak.

From record - breaking stock market returns to falling unemployment, the U.S. has no shortage of positive economic indicators, and the majority of investors say they feel confident about achieving both their short - and long - term goals, according to the latest «Morgan Stanley Investor Pulse Poll,» which surveyed more than 1,200 investors age 25 to 75 with over $ 100,000 in assets.

Overall, small business owners are more optimistic about the economic recovery than the general population, which may be a leading indicator of the future direction of overall consumer sentiment.

Here's a quick look at the numbers, plus a list of recommended readings if you want to know more about the context and significance of these economic indicators.

As usual, I don't place too much emphasis on this sort of forecast, but to the extent that I make any comments at all about the outlook for 2006, the bottom line is this: 1) we can't rule out modest potential for stock appreciation, which would require the maintenance or expansion of already high price / peak earnings multiples; 2) we also should recognize an uncomfortably large potential for market losses, particularly given that the current bull market has now outlived the median and average bull, yet at higher valuations than most bulls have achieved, a flat yield curve with rising interest rate pressures, an extended period of internal divergence as measured by breadth and other market action, and complacency at best and excessive bullishness at worst, as measured by various sentiment indicators; 3) there is a moderate but still not compelling risk of an oncoming recession, which would become more of a factor if we observe a substantial widening of credit spreads and weakness in the ISM Purchasing Managers Index in the months ahead, and; 4) there remains substantial potential for U.S. dollar weakness coupled with «unexpectedly» persistent inflation pressures, particularly if we do observe economic weakness.

Today, I hear and read about the PMI on the radio and in newspapers as often as I do more common economic indicators such as GDP and unemployment rates.

In sum, although a few apologists such as Stephanie Coontz still insist otherwise, just about everyone else in possession of the evidence acknowledges that the sexual revolution has weakened family ties, and that family ties (the presence of a biologically related mother and father in the home) have turned out to be important indicators of child well - being — and more, that the broken home is not just a problem for individuals but also for society.

The fact that I spent most of yesterday rewriting and editing this post, emailing trusted friends with drafts, making my husband re-read it over lunch, praying, rewriting a bit more, seriously contemplating deleting the whole thing and writing about cupcakes instead, and generally chewed my fingernails off is an indicator that I'm terrified to publish it.

i have read that he is not scared to get rid of the coach of his teams if they are not performing to the winning goals they set so josh kronke on the board (if he gets enough support) could the king maker and breaker for wenger reign, he might just be what we need on the board someone who is more worried about how successful we should be also with wenger talking so openly about his successor and what he is leaving him behind, this is not very wenger like at all could be another indicator of things to come in the summer maybe we will have to see.

But if it were looking at something else as well — an indicator that somebody is talking about this video in a hateful manner on a different platform — maybe it should start monitoring the comments more carefully.

Conducting simple monitoring tests teaches participants about some of the most common indicators of water health and encourages further participation in more formal citizen monitoring efforts.

They can also set goals on one or more these quality indicators and how they will go about doing it.

Rather than trying to develop new assessments in every subject / topic / learning module, we could think about indicators of quality problems which then trigger more involvement.

An indicator of this are the Samba Schools that during Carnival may transform global themes in songs, allegories and dances that stimulate millions of people to know more about Brazil and the world's history, realizations and challenges.

To learn more about the Strategic Data Project and its Strategic Performance Indicators, visit its website.

When key consumers and partners — especially aspiring school leaders and school districts — have good information about key program indicators, they can use that information to make more informed choices.

In addition, district administrators in higher - performing districts are more likely to be positive about state curriculum standards and the validity of accountability indicators than those in districts that perform less well.

However, collaboration is more than just discussions; it's about creating together, coming to consensus and other quality indicators.

The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) requires that each state meaningfully differentiates its schools based at least on the following indicators: Academic achievement; Another academic indicator (growth and / or graduation rates); English Learner Language proficiency; and An indicator of school quality or student success — The indicator of school quality or student success (SQ / SS), should be Read more about What are states using as School Quality and Student Success Iindicators: Academic achievement; Another academic indicator (growth and / or graduation rates); English Learner Language proficiency; and An indicator of school quality or student success — The indicator of school quality or student success (SQ / SS), should be Read more about What are states using as School Quality and Student Success IndicatorsIndicators?

The new provisions are an acknowledgment that multilingual America must do more to meet the language needs of a student subgroup — comprising 10 percent of school children nationwide and 22 percent, about 1.4 million students, in California — that has trailed in graduation rates, college admission and other key academic indicators.

The index measures innovation activities and conditions of urban schools along 42 indicators in nine categories: Innovation Culture Need for Academic Improvement Collaboration and Coordination Read more about The U.S. Education Innovation Index: Prototype and Report -LSB-...]

For more detailed information about the research behind social and emotional learning as an indicator of academic success, visit our Research and Publications Page.

California, however, is about to adopt an accountability system that has even more indicators of progress than will be required by the federal law.

My white paper about TLCs provides ideas about how leaders can monitor whether or not a TLC is working, and in my newest book, being published by Learning Sciences and due out this fall, I discuss this, along with leading indicators of success, and a lot more.

• Some of the same folks who are complaining about the «indecipherable» display presented to the board are also urging it to add on more indicators and the results of student subgroups to the summary display.

Donald T. Campbell's 1976 paper presented a theory about social change that is now widely revered as Campbell's Law: «The more any quantitative social indicator is used for social decision - making, the more subject it will be to corruption pressures and the more apt it will be to distort and corrupt the social processes it is intended to monitor.»

TCTA was excited about this opportunity, as, in an attempt to provide a more holistic evaluation of school success beyond test scores, we have advocated for years for the state to incorporate a «learning environment index» into the state accountability system, comprised of indicators such as rates of out - of - field and inexperienced teacher assignments, class sizes, educator engagement survey results, and school climate survey results.

The organization also said previous findings about the program's positive impact on graduation rates and college attainment «are more important indicators of, and predictors of, future success.»

Read more about ESSA & Evidence and ESSA Indicators.

If you are interested in learning more about our supports on indicators, please contact Katie Carroll.

Many states have relied on an accountability index for so long that policymakers may be unaware that reducing school performance to a single indicator hides more than it reveals about teaching and learning.

As a result, when making decisions about what indicators to use for school classification, states should analyze the extent to which possible indicators have one or more of these characteristics.

Prioritizing equity would mean being upfront about how many schools need assistance and making equity more prominent on the dashboard display — possibly by placing the names of student groups on the top level of the dashboard or by creating an equity rating for each indicator.

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Each strategic objective also includes performance goals, which state the level of performance to be accomplished, and more information about these and the corresponding performance indicators may be found in DOT's Annual Performance Plan.

If the driver uses the direction indicator to signal that he intends to change lane, the warning light flashes more intensely, signifying to the driver that the manoeuvre he is about to make is potentially dangerous.

Granted, I know more about 007's car from the movies, but the movies originated as literature, so I'm counting the Aston Martin DB5 — with or without the gun barrels behind the front indicators.

In all fairness I was just trying to make this dumb problem about rocks (the performance indicator in our curriculum) more interesting.

It's very common for beginning traders to think the more indicators they learn about and use the better off they will be.

If you'd like to learn about more indicators, Investopedia's Technical Analysis Course provides a comprehensive introduction to the subject.

(To learn more about other breadth indicators, see: Market Breadth: A Directory of Internal Inindicators, see: Market Breadth: A Directory of Internal IndicatorsIndicators.)

For example, most traders are thinking about indicators, trading robots, «secrets» to wealth, trying to trade without stop losses, etc, I would call this more of the status - quo of Forex trading.

If you are interested to know more about another very famous indicator, you can read more about it HERE.

(We will write more about the All - Clear indicator later, once we actually have a bear market to recover from.)