Sentences with phrase «very useful indicator»

Most of the people here are talking about buying an index fund or funds, so there's no real way that stock buybacks by individual companies are going to be a very useful indicator of much of anything in that context.

Not exact matches

An indicator is very useful when you're in a hurry, but it is always good to double check if the gate is properly closed.

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).

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.

I do think the psychological indicator of corporate malfeasance is very useful.

Furthermore, these technical indicators can be very useful at market opens.