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NEW YORK, April 13 - Oil prices extended recent gains and a gauge of global stocks eased on Friday as concern over a broader conflict in Syria left investors nervous, while U.S. bank shares led Wall Street lower.

As the economy still struggles to turn around, entrepreneurs are under pressure to gauge the strength of their market — in detail — before they go out and raise capital.

The U.S. Federal Reserve's gauge of inflation remains stubbornly below its 2 percent target, but U.S. 10 - year Treasury yields spiked to near four - year highs in January as a bond sell - off gathered steam.

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The fear gauge was locked in a range between 10 and 14 for the first three months of 2017, and while it's since climbed as high as 15.96, it's been stuck well below 14 since a single - day plunge of 26 % one week ago.

A gauge of U.S. small business confidence rose to a 12 - year high in December as optimism about the economy intensified among business owners following the November election, the National Federation of Independent Business said on Tuesday.

The market volatility index, otherwise known as the VIX and even better known as the fear gauge — a measure of the expected volatility of U.S. stocks — has surged to the highest level in more than two years.

«When the averages are falling apart, the thing to focus on is the CBOE Volatility Index, the VIX for short, also known as the fear gauge, which was so heavily tied to the big breakdown in February,» Cramer said.

Core Capital Goods New Orders (nondefense capital goods used in the production of goods or services, excluding aircraft) is an important gauge of business spending, often referred to as Core Capex.

While individual survey questions in the Business Outlook Survey (BOS) provide useful insights into specific aspects of business activity, a summary measure of the main survey questions serves as a gauge of overall business sentiment.

You can gauge the interest in responsible investing simply from the increase in shareholder proposals being filed about ESG issues and the exponential growth in the number of questions being asked by institutional investors, researchers and clients - and as a CEO, I have to make trade offs that may not be in the best short term profit interest of the Bank but are viewed in our best long term interest.

Yet the sector as gauged by the SPDR S&P Bank ETF was off 1.2 percent in early afternoon trading, with all of the banks that reported off at least 2 percent.

So far in March, the Dow Jones industrial average, the index that's often used as a gauge of how the stock market's doing, has slipped 360 points, or 1.7 percent.

If you look at most inflation gauges, including the Cleveland Fed's trimmed mean and median CPIs, you see a bit of upward drift, as you'd expect in year eight of an economic expansion wherein inflation has heretofore been uniquely low.

In author and seasoned commodity trader Carley Garner's quest to guide traders through the process of commodity market analysis, strategy development, and risk management, «Higher Probability Commodity Trading» discusses several alternative market concepts and unconventional views such as option selling tactics, hedging futures positions with options, and combining the practice of fundamental, technical, seasonal, and sentiment analysis to gauge market price changes.

Domestic shares will comprise just 0.7 percent of MSCI's global emerging - markets gauge as inclusion begins in two steps: the first in May 2018 and the second in August of next year.

In an interview with ThinkAdvisor, the industry critic shares his views, including a bold - face forecast about what he gauges as the rule's most alarming aspect, plus a withering critique of the industry lawsuits seeking to vacate the rule.

The Index looks at the results of three leading indicators to gauge confidence in the commercial construction industry — backlog levels, new business opportunities and revenue forecasts — generating a composite index on a scale of 0 to 100 that serves as an indicator of health for the contractor segment on a quarterly basis.

To gauge the effects a particular development will have on the index, GeoQuant relies on historical trends that serve as corollaries to current events — for instance, impeachment proceedings against President Bill Clinton in the 1990s.

The auction was closely watched as a gauge of sentiment towards Brazilian oil exploration projects after a decade of Petrobras» reign in the country's continental shelf.

While Clinton continued to outpace her Republican rival, Trump pulled in more than double what Clinton raised from small - dollar donors, whose support is often taken as a gauge of grassroots enthusiasm.

While everyone's situation is different, there are some broad industry standards that financial experts use to evaluate your debt levels in order to gauge your ability as a borrower to pay off your debts.

In fact, the CBOE Volatility Index (VIX) traded at its lowest level in decades for much of the year.1 Known as the fear gauge, the VIX reflects the market's short - term outlook for stock price volatilitIn fact, the CBOE Volatility Index (VIX) traded at its lowest level in decades for much of the year.1 Known as the fear gauge, the VIX reflects the market's short - term outlook for stock price volatilitin decades for much of the year.1 Known as the fear gauge, the VIX reflects the market's short - term outlook for stock price volatility.

It can gauge sentiment, display coverage by location, show trends in media exposure over time and show you who's writing about you the most as well as monitor competitors.

As a result, changes in NAV are not the best gauge of mutual fund performance, which is best measured by annual total return.

In addition, amid persistently easy policy, company leaders had a difficult time gauging the true level of U.S. economic growth, and as a result, many corporations delayed committing capital until they had more clarity.

It is noteworthy that this increase is happening as the New York Fed's Underlying Inflation Gauge (UIG) hit another high for this recovery, rising from 3.01 % in January to 3.06 % in February.

Focus groups as well as usability studies can play a role in triangulating research by being used to gauge the reaction to prototypes and new concepts that may be born out of the combined quantitative and ethnographic research.

NEW YORK Oil prices extended recent gains and a gauge of global stocks eased on Friday as concern over a broader conflict in Syria left investors nervous, while U.S. bank shares led Wall Street lower.

While the VIX Index itself is a gauge and is not investable, Cboe offers the following VIX - related benchmark indexes (all shown in image above) that are designed to serve as benchmarks for hypothetical investable performance over more than a decade.

Investors have been clamoring for airlines to rein in capacity growth as a way to turn around declines in that benchmark revenue gauge.

While Microsoft Ventures is committed to act as a strategic partner for budding startups around the world, his role to garner startups in a country like India, where Entrepreneurs are yet to gauge the value - worth of market intelligence and market insights, is a hard - hitting task with a single focused objective — build locally, scale globally.

The volume of merchandise exports in November — seen as a more reliable gauge of underlying strength than value terms — rose 6.1 % from a year earlier, the Ministry of Finance announced Wednesday.

As most of these securities are relatively new, there is no track record available to gauge how they might perform in a rising interest rate environment.

As it was newly introduced, there is very little very information to go on for us to gauge its capabilities apart from the fact it is still in beta testing and has so far been said to be unreliable.

Google AdWords can help you test concepts and gauge your targeted audience's interest in your offerings, as well as refine your communication strategy.

A current snapshot of the world gold market and its near term outlook can be gauged by examining four sets of influences on the market, namely the macro / geopolitical environment, investment demand flows, physical demand in the major markets (using India as an example), and finally the technical picture.

Last week, trade protectionism re-emerged as a concern not only among the crowds gathered in Davos for the World Economic Forum, but also among financial market participants seeking to gauge the impact of a rising risk of protectionism.

Since those aren't exactly universal units of measurement, the system gauged the size of each piece of food, in relation to the plate, as well as any condiments.

In other words, Jesus as the Christ is the gauge by which every disclosure of God's will is measured.

The literary tropes of sex and death in the Twilight series, it has to be said, are well worn, as worn as the ruts in the Roman roads that turned into the standard gauge for European railroads.

Those are just some of the questions in a confidential survey sent to 400,000 active - duty and reserve troops this week as part of an effort to gauge reactions in the ranks if the military lifts its «don't ask, don't tell» policy that has kept g - ay and le - sbian troops in the closet for the last 17 years.»

Global figures are difficult to gauge because of poor reporting in some countries and differences in methods of reporting; for example, some countries will classify maternal mortality as the death of a woman within 21 days of birth, others 42 days; some include only direct causes - sepsis, haemorrhage, obstruction - whereas others will include indirect causes such as malaria and anaemia.

We listen to and gauge our own feelings, thoughts, emotions, and we walk in trust that just as God sees and know us, we can also see and know.

Campbell's working his absolute socks off, I'm all for him continuing as only a handful of games in the Prem is not nearly enough to gauge him as a player.

The same parameters that are being used by the media or the fans to gauge players should be applied more importantly to the manager and even the club as a whole.Is Arsenal for instance just in the competitions for the hell of it or are they there to compete for the attainment of the trophies and the accompanying goodies?.

If we used the slashing of betting odds in years gone by as a gauge of players joining Arsenal then the likes of Higuain, Benzema, Gotze, Mata etc would be at The Emirates

Floating his name like this in the locker room and in the public can serve as a trial balloon — a way to gauge the reaction and / or put some pressure on owner Steve Biscotti.

I reckon we will not pursue a new def mid in jan or next summer, I reckon Wenger will gauge Bielik possibly arriving in the first team as early as next season.

Is there any truth to the rumor that Turner and otherkickers sometimes plant special agents with pennants at critical spots in thestands to use as wind gauges and / or «gunsights»?