The Towards Maturity Index ™ is
the lead indicator at the heart of the Towards Maturity Benchmark ™ process.
Not exact matches
In fact corporate profits are a recognized long
leading indicator, which means they usually peak
at least a year before the economy as a whole.
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.
Whereas some obvious
indicators will land someone on the list, such as carrying out a violent attack
at an airport, other innocuous actions such as being an acquaintance of a suspect on the watch list can also
lead to being watch - listed.
It appears the global economy may be moving ever closer to the the dreaded double - dip recession.The premier
leading economic indicator in the U.S., the ECRI Weekly Leading Indicator (WLI), now stands at a level that foreshadowed the past 7 downturns, observes David Rosenberg, chief economist with Glushkin Sheff + Asso
leading economic
indicator in the U.S., the ECRI Weekly
Leading Indicator (WLI), now stands at a level that foreshadowed the past 7 downturns, observes David Rosenberg, chief economist with Glushkin Sheff + Asso
Leading Indicator (WLI), now stands
at a level that foreshadowed the past 7 downturns, observes David Rosenberg, chief economist with Glushkin Sheff + Associates.
«We are looking
at investment and research as
leading indicators of who is going to win that disruptive race, much like investing in the early days of internet technology would have
led you to companies like Amazon,» he said.
«
Leading indicators suggest that domestic demand will continue to perform strongly in the second half of the year, but we think the quarter - on - quarter run - rate in headline GDP (gross domestic product) growth will slow to 0.4 percent - to - 0.5 percent quarter - on - quarter,» Claus Vistesen, chief euro zone economist
at Pantheon Macroeconomics, said in an email.
A second reason for looking
at junk bonds is that they may be a more sensitive
indicator, perhaps a more sensitive
leading indicator, of economic conditions than higher - grade bonds.
Prices for copper, a key industrial metal and a strong
leading indicator of economic growth, have remained robust
at above $ 4 a pound.
Leading indicators are released
at 10 a.m. Traders are also watching Chinese inflation data overnight.
Since the performance of individual
leading growth stocks is one of the most important
indicators of our market timing system, we are continuously on alert for any red flags that could hint
at a substantial stock market correction.
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.
Wall Street looks
at high - yield bonds as a
leading indicator for stocks.
Probably the best way to summarize this chart is that when the majority of developed economies have negative
leading indicators on a year - over-year basis, investors should
at least allow for large stock market declines.
The stock market collapse in 1987 is the only example of a large decline without
at least some notification from the OECD's
leading indicators of oncoming weakness.
The latest round of OECD Composite
Leading Indicators was just released, and given how useful these indicators can be in shedding light on the state of the economic cycle (and market cycle) it's worth taking a look at the trends within
Indicators was just released, and given how useful these
indicators can be in shedding light on the state of the economic cycle (and market cycle) it's worth taking a look at the trends within
indicators can be in shedding light on the state of the economic cycle (and market cycle) it's worth taking a look
at the trends within the data.
The strength appears to have been sustained into the final quarter of the year, and
leading indicators suggest that residential building activity will remain
at historically high levels as a share of GDP in early 2004.
, Guofu Zhou and Xiaoneng Zhu examine whether OECD - issued
leading economic
indicators predict government bond returns
at a one - month horizon.
Some more info will be out just next week on the health of the manufacturing sector - RBC's PMI report shows that instead of getting a bounce from the low dollar - other forces
at play have been lowering the PMI which is a proven
leading indicator of the manufacturing sector.
I hope we see strong interest from local wrestlers for our new program
at LPC, and I hope this provides a good
indicator for other schools looking to follow our
lead and start wrestling programs.
for me people like Nia Jax, Ashley Graham, Tyra Banks, are beautiful and so are women like Flockhart and Nicole Richie on the other side, for me the biggest
indicator is looking
at what is «healthy» and what is unhealthy, and stay in between (which should be a very big range) and not worry about «how people view you» and that
leads to some people going way too thin (and yet feel fat still) and also
leads to some women who goes to extremes of «not worry about how others view you» and forget their health and we have women who are under 6 feet tall and 600 pounds
Now part of that might because of his absence from the lineup and a lack of minutes, or perhaps his unhappy spell
at Wolverhampton last season is a better
indicator of his ability than Leeds fans were
lead to believe.
Brooklyn Daily Eagle story on BP Adams discussing how employers can
lead the way in improving health
indicators in Brooklyn by offering healthier options
at meetings.
A team
led by Jacob Dunn, an evolutionary biologist
at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, decided to investigate the exact relationship between these two
indicators of male virility.
«A decline in the saturation state of carbonate minerals, especially aragonite, is a good
indicator of a rise in ocean acidification,» said Li - Qing Jiang, an oceanographer with NOAA's Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites
at the University of Maryland and
lead author.
«What we found is that negative perceptions on aging are definitely significantly related to [Alzheimer's] disease
indicators,» said study
lead author Becca Levy, an associate professor
at the Yale School of Public Health in New Haven, Conn..
The study, published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research Public Health and Surveillance, used Twitter as a way to gain insight into the health of people in neighborhoods across the U.S. «Increasingly we're seeing more and more studies looking
at health beyond just disease, incorporating
indicators of wellbeing,» says Quynh Nguyen,
lead author of the study and an assistant professor
at the University of Utah College of Health.
Nirupa Matthan, Ph.D. «Glycemic index values appear to be an unreliable
indicator even under highly standardized conditions, and are unlikely to be useful in guiding food choices,» said
lead study author Nirupa Matthan, Ph.D., scientist in the Cardiovascular Nutrition Laboratory
at the USDA HNRCA.
We looked
at a bunch of people, and these are the
indicators and factors we think
lead to long term relationships.
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
leads the way in nominations for the Screen Actors Guild awards, historically one of the key
indicators of which films will triumph
at the Oscars.
At about the same time, Johns Hopkins University researcher Robert Balfanz and the University of Chicago Consortium on Chicago School Research were finding that chronic absenteeism in middle and high school was a
leading indicator that students would drop out.
At AISR, she
led the Time for Equity
Indicators Project, which developed and supports the use of a comprehensive set of indicators that measure how expanded time and learning opportunities can transform the lives of students, the structure of schools, and the power of co
Indicators Project, which developed and supports the use of a comprehensive set of
indicators that measure how expanded time and learning opportunities can transform the lives of students, the structure of schools, and the power of co
indicators that measure how expanded time and learning opportunities can transform the lives of students, the structure of schools, and the power of communities.
Which has properly
led the organization to look
at much more than just short - term test scores as
indicators of whether their students are on track.
In a few districts, district and school leaders reported that analysis of trend data by district and / or state assessment specialists had
led to the identification of early
indicators of students academically
at risk, based on test scores or other factors (e.g., family circumstances), in lower grade levels.
The Every Student Succeeds Act requires that states include
at least one nonacademic
indicator in their school accountability frameworks, which is
leading states to explore options for teaching and measuring nonacademic skills.
Each committee was asked to use the objective data on differences for every metric together with practitioner knowledge about work already going on in the region, potential impact,
leading versus lagging
indicators, etc. to determine just two metrics to focus on
at each level of the education pipeline.
The Department of Education calls the measure a «
leading indicator,» a reasonable label given the documented relationship between absence rates measured
at the teacher level and student achievement.
Research clearly shows that family and community engagement is a
leading indicator of student achievement and valued
at an additional $ 1,000 per pupil funding.
A 2013 study by Robert Balfanz, a
leading researcher
at Johns Hopkins University on
indicators of high school graduation, found that a single suspension in the 9th grade correlates with a doubling of the dropout rate, and tripling of the chances that a child will end up in the juvenile justice system.
Reading
at grade level by the third grade is a
leading indicator of school success and high school graduation, but despite steady gains in grade - level reading in Miami - Dade County, too many children fail to achieve this critical benchmark.
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In his new book A People Adrift: The Crisis of the Roman Catholic Church in America, he cites some
leading Catholic
indicators: for every 100 priests who die, only 35 new ones are being ordained; regular attendance
at Sunday Mass since 1965...
«The
leading indicators are approaching a peak and as the share markets have already started poorly in March, investors should prepare themselves for having to reduce their tactical allocations to shares by the start of April, said chief strategist
at Sparinvest, David Bakkegaard Karsbøl, in his montly comment for March.
Let's take a look
at the way many traders try to trade with lagging and
leading indicators all over their charts, and then let's compare this to trading with nothing but a plain vanilla price chart and price action.
[Of course, all news can't be good news, we saw a bit of a reversal
at the most recent auction... though September's the least important (& lowest quality) auction of the year, so it's not the most reliable
leading indicator.
Sea ice is such a good
indicator of weather and geophysical events, I can tell where the center of a high pressure is, especially by looking
at newly formed
leads, the center of a powerful high punches a hole through the ice!
1) One could argue your statement is not «conclusively supported by the paleo - data» — one need only argue that C02 levels are a lagging result (rather than
leading indicator) of temp change, and your 20,000 year ago glacial maximum as GHG evidence becomes tenuous
at best.
In the early stages of economic growth degradation and pollution increase, but beyond some level of income per capita (which will vary for different
indicators) the trend reverses, so that
at high - income levels economic growth
leads to environmental improvement.
Now, a new study in Nature Energy by a young economist
at Carnegie Mellon University, finds that the temporary closure of two nuclear plants in the early 1980s
led directly to lower birth weights — a key
indicator of poor health outcomes later in life [3].
Though the project was
led by scientists
at Manomet, their conclusion was that
indicator selection and use is primarily a social issue, not a technical or scientific issue.