Sentences with phrase «as a proxy for»

Using an hourly wage as a proxy for monthly income does not consider income from other jobs or investments.

They're the most important relationships in your life, but you should never take your parents» career advice, and I'm using parents as a proxy for all the pressures in the world.

(The CNBC Kensho search used the iShares 20 + Year Treasury Bond ETF as a proxy for the bond market.

The shareholders are ultimately the «boss» of the board in the sense that the board serves as their proxy for enhancing intrinsic value, yet boards typically hear about shareholder concerns indirectly and often not attributed to any specific shareholder.

It serves as a proxy for the overall level of fear or anxiety in the market, surging during times of panic and dropping in times of calm.

The difference is that the Chinese market — and middle class — is growing much faster and some investors see Alibaba as a proxy for that growth.

The amounts are expressed as percentages of pre-retirement earnings; earnings are expressed as fractions or multiples of average wages and salaries (i.e. replacement rates); and the YMPE under the C / QPP serves as a proxy for average wages and salaries.

His yearlong tenure can be seen as a proxy for what local ownership might look like should the Times ever be sold.

Why would you use spending as the proxy for the lack of significance in our lives as opposed to the affordability of it?

They use the reputation of the other investors as a proxy for due diligence.

I'm going to use the S&P 500 index as a proxy for the stock market.

Still, we will use IWM as the proxy for getting our buy and sell signals for this trade set up, then use corresponding entry and exit prices for trading UWM instead.

The net position — contracts to buy a foreign currency at a future date minus contracts to sell the same currency — is often watched by market analysts, who interpret its movements as a proxy for speculators» changing views of the short - term direction of exchange rates.

The company's management team usually votes as proxy for a large number of shareholders, because most shareholders, especially if they only own a few shares, do not attend the annual meeting.

As this market is so new, microgrid and blockchain markets — two essential components of this opportunity — are as used as proxies for its current size and potential growth.

As a proxy for political uncertainty I used the popular Economic Policy Uncertainty indexes, measures based on real - time news flow.

«The market seems to be using Alibaba as a proxy for the macroeconomy and consumer economy.»

Using the 10,000 actively traded U.S. companies in the Compustat database as a proxy for the number of companies potentially subject to the rule, we can estimate an aggregate annual cost of $ 5 billion.

Ultra-low sulfur diesel futures, used as a proxy for the jet and kerosene markets, reached $ 2.1431 a gallon on Jan. 26 on the New York Mercantile Exchange, the highest since Feb. 27, 2015; it last settled at $ 2.0927.

We do not have the number of births in the RCT area, so we multiply 5q0 by the under - 5 population (as a proxy for births over a 5 year period) and then divide by 5 to get the deaths per person per year.

FBI firearm background checks are used as a proxy for national gun sales.

It is not a perfect analogy but — except, of course, for the part in which analyses that use the number of bookshops as a proxy for literacy are widely ridiculed — it is nonetheless similar to what happens when the health of the Chinese economy is measured by the reported GDP data, or when second - order measures, such as the dependence of Chinese growth on debt, is estimated by looking at credit growth in relation to GDP growth.

This immediately renders the number of bookshops useless as a proxy for literacy, unless one can find another output measure that can be used to adjust the number of bookshops, perhaps the number of titles on offer or revenue per shop.

Because the amount of bad debt in each period is almost certainly a growing number, it must follow logically that the GDP growth number observers really want, rather than the one they have — that is, GDP growth as a systems output that can serve as a proxy for debt - servicing capacity — is a declining number, and perhaps even a quickly declining number.

Part of the problem occurs as a result of blindly following a launch checklist which serves as a proxy for a launch strategy.

In that case, the number of bookshops, which is a systems output — generated organically by the size of the city, the rate of literacy, the income of residents, and other relevant factors — would serve as a proxy for literacy, while population or income would serve as proxies for whatever variable one wants to measure.

Like with GDP, there are a whole set of problems with using the number of bookshops as a proxy for literacy, but it is a reasonable proxy, and perhaps in our case, it is the best measure that can be found.

We have applied discount rates that reflect the risks associated with our cash flow projections and have used venture capital rates of return for companies at a similar stage of development as us, as a proxy for our cost of capital.

At their lows of the day, major indexes fell sharply, with both the Dow and the S&P 500 dropping below their 200 - day moving averages, a closely watched gauge used as a proxy for an asset's long - term momentum trends.

Additionally, the credit bureaus produce business credit scores, which serve as a proxy for a company's ability to repay its debts.

Because if he, as a proxy for the Justice Department (specifically the FBI), can be painted as anti-Trump, then it means his hiring of special counsel Robert Mueller had ulterior anti-Trump motives.

While Citi has only a 2 percent share, BofA is the largest player with more than 26 percent, according to FTN Financial, using mortgage servicing as a proxy for origination activity.

Ether too, which acts as a proxy for alternative cryptoassets cycles, was at a very low support level.

Weiss explains how the importance of USDT to the entire ecosystem is that many non-fiat exchanges (like Binance or Okex) use it as a proxy for real dollars in trading.

Used as a proxy for the long - term trend, it is hard to imagine one concluding that the index has already broken down given that the 200 SMA lies below it.

Building that expectation will first require us to look at what AT&T has historically done (using the last 10 years as a proxy for the long term).

While this is still the predominant case, it is increasingly used as a proxy for a financial guarantee to enable policyholders to gain access to bank lending and optimize their working capital needs.

To investigate, we relate the behavior of NYSE end - of - month margin debt, published with a delay of about a month, with the monthly behavior of the S&P 500 Index as a proxy for the U.S. stock market.

(For purposes of this discussion, all figures refer to the ten largest companies included in the XAU index as a proxy for the industry.)

For a time, this was associated with the weakness in some Asian currencies, both because markets see Australia's prospects as being closely tied to those of Asia and because some investors sold into the Australian market as a proxy for the less liquid Asian currency markets.

The return assumptions are based on hypothetical rates of return of securities indices, which serve as proxies for the asset classes.

Moreover, different forecasts may choose different indices as a proxy for the same asset class, thus influencing the return of the asset class.

For simplicity, this paper uses the agriculture, manufacturing and tourism (that is, transport and accommodation & food services) industries as a proxy for the non-resource tradable sector.

The natural log is used as a proxy for the growth in Fed holdings, most likely resulting from purchases.

Gold continues to act as less of a haven hedge and more as a proxy for USD sentiment.

The report by Caterpillar, which serves as a proxy for global economic activity, of its quarterly results on April 24 set off the broader concerns that industrial companies» financial results may have already reached peak levels.

Such comparisons, which typically use actual past inflation as a proxy for expected inflation, currently show Australia as having relatively high real interest rates.

He is using gold derivatives and gold mining stakes as a proxy for his wager on the US dollar being devalued.

Using actual inflation over the past five years as a proxy for longer - term inflation expectations, Australian real rates are relatively high in international terms.

Because these expectations are hard to measure, past inflation is often used in practice as a proxy for expected inflation, but it is important to remember that this may not be accurate.