Sentences with phrase «as a barometer as»

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Chinese - language dailies may be more influential than the Post, but changes in its editorial direction are seen as a barometer for press freedom under Chinese rule.

«It's an interesting demonstration of the ways in which apps and social media platforms both reflect and are sensitive to cultural change and serve as a cultural barometer but can also codify what is acceptable behavior,» she said.

Once a celebration for China «s lonely hearts, Singles» Day has become a 24 - hour extravaganza that outsells Black Friday and Cyber Monday U.S. sales combined, and acts as a barometer forChina «s consumers.

As such, they're also a good barometer for your brand's cool factor, or its imminent dilution, depending on your marketing strategy.

So to Yeager, performance of Amazon's Echo serves as a barometer for performance of virtual assistants in general.

The yield, a barometer for mortgage rates and other financial instruments, has jumped in April on signs of nascent inflation and as the Federal Reserve stood by its plan to gradually tighten monetary policy.

Samsung said its 2014 capital expenditure, a barometer of broader technology industry demand for manufacturing tools such as chip equipment, will be similar to 2013's 23.8 trillion won.

Meanwhile government bond yields, a reliable barometer of market fear, are falling to record low levels as investors engage in a panicked hunt for risk - free assets.

There are two business - world barometers for clean - meat products that are make - or - break as well: price and scale.

Also known as the VIX, the index in question is a measure of expected price swings in US equities that serves as a barometer for investor nervousness.

Although there are no guarantees that anyone other than the taxpayer involved will receive the promised treatment, private letter rulings serve as useful barometers of the IRS's thinking.

«The idea is that as institutional investors seek out increasingly higher levels of risk / return, that Bitcoin may represent the most risky / potentially highest return available, and hence could be evolving quickly into a primary barometer / leading indicator for broader financial markets and risk appetite.»

Though my recent insomnia is partly a barometer of fear, it's a measure of effort as well.

But missing from the details were BlackBerry subscriber numbers, a figure that analysts have come to rely on as a barometer of how many people still use the company's devices.

According to the Flash Euro Barometer, 26 percent of Americans reported that they had taken part in such a course or activity when they were asked in 2012, as compared with 23 percent of the residents of the 27 countries of the European Union.

In addition, interest rates on U.S. Treasury bonds are used as barometers for determining global economic health [9], and as pegs for many other interest rates, including American mortgage and student loan rates [10, 11].

However, what you may not have realized is that our technical stock and ETF screener is also quite useful as a barometer of overall market health, which assists in having proper market timing.

It's also important to review how a company measures its addressable market, which can serve as a barometer of a company's understanding of its customers.

The KBW Nasdaq family of indexes are closely watched benchmarks and are widely cited as barometers for the health of the financial sector.

It provides a useful barometer of relative city attraction, as well as highlighting the intense strains that many cities are now facing as their real estate markets try to accommodate growth.

Our budget barometer breaks it down as a percent of the economy (GDP), a better metric than dollars for comparing across history.

The viewpoint is catching on with advisors and consumers, but retirement research is still largely focused on the notion that individuals need to find a safe withdrawal rate for their retirement and then use that as a barometer to compute a wealth accumulation target in order to fund their desired retirement spending.

Instead, I have gone through my career in national media with a misinformed sense of satisfaction that, as a perceptive young journalist, I called Trump on his lies and gave Forbes readers who used the Rich List as a barometer of private wealth a more accurate picture of his finances than the one he was selling.

Copper, seen as a barometer of global industrial demand, tumbled 2.5 percent, with three - month copper on the London Metal Exchange also hitting a six - year low of $ 4,920 a tonne.

As Donald Trump's roller coaster presidency continues to unfold, one firm has developed a new barometer to help Wall Street navigate the turbulence.

The so - called January Barometer, as first mentioned by Yale Hirsch of the Stock Trader's Almanac, suggests the performance of stocks in the first month of the calendar year dictates where prices will head for the year overall.

The Model 3 is a significant barometer by which investors and the industry are measuring Tesla's capability as an automaker.

Premiums on South Korean foreign exchange stabilisation bonds, a key barometer of sovereign risk, jumped to an 18 - month high this week as tensions between Pyongyang and Washington rose following ballistic missile tests by North Korea.

The stock market is largely seen as a barometer of economic health to the US economy.

Outside of the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA), the Standard & Poor's (S&P) 500 may stand as the most well - known market barometer in the world.

The 1970's saw a rise in the price of commodities generally, and gold acted as a barometer for how little people trusted the new financial system that replaced one of the rarest metals on earth with «made up money».

While the mainstream media desires to fill time it seems that Iowa has become less important this year as a barometer of the national mood.

It is the most popular type of US Treasury debt and is often used as a barometer for the overall U.S. economy.

The Almanac originated such important market phenomena as the «January Barometer» and the «Santa Claus Rally» and was instrumental in popularizing other tradable strategies, such as «The Best Six Months Strategy» (commonly known as «Sell in May and Go Away») and the four - year Presidential Election Cycle.

Stock market indices (or indexes) are commonly utilized as benchmarks to relate investment performance as well as serve as a barometer for the overall health of an economy.

A widely followed market theory, the January barometer, claims that as January goes, so goes the full year.

I don't see the value of the buttons as anything more than a general barometer of the general perspective of other readers... and without the ability to reflect both positive and negative there is no real value at all.

Republicans should be happy to learn this Truth that has brought America to the state of Light for Obama to pick on it.One thing good about American Democracy is it is «truly participating» and lasting with lessons for others to follow in modernity to tap blue horizons of life.Those blue horizons just do not end in economics that has many minds to tap the financial barometer of the country self educative in working of its affluent class and ordinary class both domestically and internationally relating to perfection with budgeting of money in economic plans that have been existing and are in the process to move charismatically with a tide over where bipartisan element also comes into play well integrated to test the mettle of the top leader of the country who has to stand over the continuous democratic element evolving of the country both in economic as well as inherently in spiritual terms for the good of the people at large mixing with the culture of exchange that has humanity behind it to survive??

So positioning «icky» as the barometer for morality is just poor argumentation.

And all the time, as during the crucial hours before, the captain simply stared at the falling barometer in sheer refusal to open his stolid mind to the knowledge of what, even before the storm came, he ought to have done.

Trust the barometer of your energy level to suggest that those resources may be crucial ones for your own growth or for your increasing effectiveness as a growth enabler with others.

The barometer of how much faith as trust there is in your life is how much anxiety there is in your life.

Outrage culture values virtue signaling as a barometer to determine whether a person is good or bad.

If you continue to utilize the logic of a book written eons ago as your moral barometer, you better be willing to accept the whole thing, not just parts of it you prefer.

Surely we had title ambitions and champions league progression as a barometer..?

My point is that we have no indication as to whether the Yankees see his 11 games as a true barometer as to whether he'll be called up so quickly.

The AP Poll featured here is a decent barometer for how the committee might see things, but shouldn't be viewed as a perfect predictor.

The whole League is eager to see that one at as it will serve a real barometer for the Free Agents.

They are going to get the Rookies Team Weisel in Week 2 and it will serve as a nice barometer for both Teams as squads are jockeying for position early in the season..

This is going to be a great barometer for both Teams as we sprint toward April.