For example, by gathering all the financial statement data that was available to investors in the lead - up to a share price disappointment, we can analyse whether particular financial ratios served
as useful indicators of trouble ahead.
Some stock market experts cite the year (1, 2, 3 or 4) of the U.S. presidential term cycle
as a useful indicator of U.S. stock market returns.
Insurers see your credit
as a useful indicator of future claims and may charge more from those with poor credit in Arizona.
Instead, the appropriate use of criminal records databases compiled by non-government entities is
as a useful indicator of possible records — not as the authoritative source.
Not exact matches
That said, valuations have never been
useful as an
indicator of near - term market fluctuations - a shortcoming that has been amplified since the late 1990's.
The red dots show the
indicator itself, which is quite noisy, and the 3 - month moving average, which is more
useful as an
indicator of coincident economic activity.
Management believes that the non-GAAP measure of Adjusted EBITDA is
useful as an
indicator of an oil and gas exploration and production company's ability to internally fund exploration and development activities and to service or incur additional debt.
This subcomponent is a
useful leading
indicator of exports in the GDP accounts, so it is a stark warning that the export sector is indeed foundering
as a growth engine.
One
useful indicator is the auction clearance rate — that is, the number of properties sold
as a proportion of properties offered (including those withdrawn prior to sale).
That an animal body is first and foremost a society (
as Whitehead reminds us) is a
useful indicator that every rationalization of experience depends at bottom on a more or less happy conjunction of «naturing» and «culturing.»
But if the reviews shared by parents can be used
as any
indicator of a feature's usefulness, it seems to me that the temperature
indicator offered in some of the baby monitors turn out to be a feature that parents find least
useful.
The stroller comes with
useful and essential features such
as the 5 - point safety harness system, one - hand harness adjustment facility, push - button release, and a 4 - position push - button height adjustable base with level
indicators for easy installation.
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As an aside, it's
useful to know that books and puzzles are much better
indicators of your child's distractibility than TV or computer games.
Unlike the marginal rate of tax, which is a forward looking measure that relies on assumptions about prices, revenues and production profiles, ETR is a retrospective
indicator calculated on the basis of observed data for all of these parameters (this is a
useful feature,
as the taxes that companies liquidate may be a very small fraction of what they would have theoretically had to pay had the marginal rate of taxation applied,
as the cases of Starbucks, Amazon and other companies so poignantly demonstrate).
Refugee numbers from Afghanistan saw a sharp increase after Germany's decision to switch to an open door policy, and are not
useful as an
indicator for local security situations.
As former lead of the World Bank's global program for fisheries and aquaculture, he said these
indicators could be very
useful for institutions like the World Bank, the U.S. Agency for International Development, and nongovernmental organizations that fund projects on fisheries reform in developing countries to monitor and evaluate progress.
The discovery suggests that hot, liquid magma pools may be
useful as an
indicator of impending eruptions.
Although
useful as indicators of the origin of different groups, they imply nothing fundamental about differences between them.
Those signals can also be
useful indicators for screening, such
as scanning blood or urine for specific compounds or scanning proteins to detect strong or weak binding with a drug candidate.
For evaluation of fish function to be a
useful as an
indicator of resilience there is a need to move to a multi-scale approach, where the role of species within the spatial patchiness of the landscape is considered.
I would love to see more of this test across middle income and lower income countries —
as a
useful even if not perfect
indicator of educational quality.
National Snow and Ice Data Center This comprehensive National Snow and Ice Data Center Web site,
useful for teacher reference or for older students, includes information on snow and ice
as indicators of climate change, snow avalanches, blizzards, historical snow data, the climate of the Arctic and Antarctic regions, glaciers, sea ice, ice sheets, ice shelves, and icebergs.
Living in the 21st century also means data is more accessible to the public, a context which Ramanathan views
as an opportunity for multiple stakeholders to access and present data in more
useful ways than the
indicators traditionally developed by the state.
Tests are important and
useful, but they are simply
indicators that should be used
as such.
As we begin the new school year and, in Texas, look toward the next level of school performance accountability, I believe it is important that we look beyond the test - driven accountability system, as useful as it has been, for more instructive leading indicators of progress toward excellence in public educatio
As we begin the new school year and, in Texas, look toward the next level of school performance accountability, I believe it is important that we look beyond the test - driven accountability system,
as useful as it has been, for more instructive leading indicators of progress toward excellence in public educatio
as useful as it has been, for more instructive leading indicators of progress toward excellence in public educatio
as it has been, for more instructive leading
indicators of progress toward excellence in public education.
More
useful,
as an early
indicator of titles grabbing public interest, is the Amazon's Movers and Shakers list, updated hourly.
The downside is that since this
indicator is based on the daily candlesticks, it only really plots
useful levels on the lower time frames, such
as the 15 - minute chart.
They have been better at forecasting the unemployment rate, even
as it has become less
useful as an
indicator of how strong labor conditions are because of discouraged workers and more lower wage jobs.
Still when it comes to dividend safety, higher dividends are more likely to be cut so we actually include this metric
as negative, which seems counter intuitive, but has proven to be a
useful indicator many times.
If you found this custom
indicator to be
useful as well, please share this article with other traders.
Hi, Just
as I've closed a morning wandering around some discriptions of new «
useful»
indicators, this article pops up.
Market - capitalization based indexes have served a
useful purpose
as indicators of broad market performance and
as benchmarks against which to measure active manager performance.
As others have mentioned, yield can be a
useful indicator to help you during your analysis.
Still, the Big Money Poll is most
useful as a contrary
indicator.
While moving averages are
useful enough on their own, they also form the basis for other technical
indicators such
as the Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD).
Bond Spreads may also be
useful as a LEADING
indicator.
Multi-Features: LEOKOR luggage scale with many
useful features, such
as auto holding display locks once weight is stable, auto - off functions, low battery
indicator, a larger backlight LCD display.
This luggage scale also has many
useful features that I like such
as auto holding display locks once weight is stable, auto - off functions, and low battery
indicator.
Webcams for Mangamaunu and elsewhere along the Kaikoura and Marlborough coast are
useful as indicators for general surf conditions that affect other surf breaks in the region.
Webcams for Raglan - Manu Bay and elsewhere along the Raglan and West Waikato coast are
useful as indicators for general surf conditions that affect other surf breaks in the region.
Some kind of nebulous
indicator that I've done 25 % of the module isn't anywhere near
as useful, since it has no bearing on which 25 % that actually is - it could be the easiest 25 % or the hardest 25 %, and that's the difference between about 15 hours of gameplay and 70 hours.
Consequently, tree - ring width and tree - ring density, both
indicators of tree growth, serve
as useful proxies for temperature.
Other
indicators of climate, such
as tree - ring analysis and palynology, were previously mentioned, but many documentary indications are also
useful: the time of the cherry blossom festival in Kyōto, Japan, the freezing of lakes, the incidence of floods, blizzards, or droughts, the economics of harvests, salt evaporation production, some disease statistics, and so on.
I want these headline
indicators over time to become just
as useful and familiar, reported regularly on TV, radio and in the newspapers.»
[39] Svalgaard [2009] noted that in particular the eastward component of the daily Sq variation is a
useful indicator of solar activity, and may be used
as a tool to calibrate the long - term sunspot number record.
When a continuing series of peak hottest years occurs every four or five years, each peak a little hotter than the last, then there is an obvious temptation to view that particular metric
as being a more
useful indicator of the validity of the AR5 climate models than would be the central trend of the observations.
But the comment is less
useful as an
indicator of Mitt's personal beliefs than a reflection of the current Republican zeitgeist — Romney played the line for laughs, knowing that all of the convention attendees more or less agreed that both Obama's grand ambitions and climate change itself is a joke.
The combined number, while easy to derive from our online posted data, is not
useful as an analysis tool or
indicator of climate trends.
In part because it is difficult to associate decisions taken during the marriage to particular advantages or disadvantages, and in part because it may be a
useful indicator of those advantages and disadvantages, courts have looked to post-separation standards of living and compared it to pre-separation standards of living, with a view to determining whether there has been significant economic advantage or disadvantage
as a result of the breakdown of the marriage (see generally W. v. W., 2005 BCSC 1010 at para. 12).
As a broad
indicator of a cryptocurrency's developer support, however, Cryptomiso is a
useful tool.