Bellwethers such as International Business Machines and Oracle should fare relatively well, in our view.
Other global bellwethers have also suffered this year due to a marked global slowdown.
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She also noted the status of the Dow's components as "blue chips, " or bellwethers of American business.
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On the commercial front, companies like BHP and Rio Tinto have become Asian bellwethers, and thus also global bellwethers.
With few statewide elections and nothing nationally in 2011, several initiatives in Ohio provide bellwethers with broad implications for 2012.
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Furthermore, HP's outlook runs counter to the broader industry trend of technology bellwethers posting weak results and reducing their earnings forecasts.
When the bellwether stocks are acting inconsistently with the overall market, investors take note and that has happened with technology bellwethers.
Just as the rules have changed for some of the bellwethers, the older more established technology stocks have caught the eye of investors.
We also want to be clear that accountability will remain one of the bellwethers for our administration, as it has in the past.
Of the financial bellwethers, the picture has been mixed so far as JPMorgan reported strong earnings but Citigroup missed on account of poor trading revenues.
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On other tech bellwethers billionaires went in different directions, including Apple (Tepper bought, Simons and Soros sold) and Microsoft (Tepper sold, Simons bought).
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Perhaps the earnings whispers are to blame for the selloff or positive earnings surprises from other tech bellwethers made this report just par for the course.
With the rise of Big Data, personalization technology that can transform user data into unique experiences is all the rage among Silicon Valley bellwethers and VCs alike.
It's a real coin flip as to what direction this goes for a paper like the Los Angeles Times, long one of the bellwethers of print journalism.
FedEx and Caterpillar, bellwethers for global economic strength, both warned of significantly slowing global sales, Caterpillar reporting its Asia-Pacific sales plunged 26%, and North American sales fell 12% from December through February.
According to trial testimony and court documents, his web of informants provided illicit information on companies ranging from tech bellwethers like Intel and Advanced Micro Devices to banking giant Goldman Sachs.
Also, monitor bellwethers like Apple and FedEx.
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Due to IT budget cuts and uncertainty regarding the economic recovery, many companies and consumers held back on spending in 2008 and 2009 leaving technology bellwethers like Microsoft, Oracle, SAP and Adobe worrying about when this spending would return.
The two exchanges appear to make a good fit: The tech-fuelled Nasdaq, which is the world's largest electronic exchange, is home to technology bellwethers like Dell and Microsoft, while OMX is also technology-driven with the likes of Ericsson and Nokia in its ranks, along with truck and bus-maker Volvo.
As the addresses for sending information over the internet for IPv4 will soon be exhausted, the transition to IPv6 is inevitable and many tech industry bellwethers like Cisco, Google and Verizon are helping enterprises and individuals make sure that their applications and devices can handle IPv6.
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Besides being bullish on tech bellwethers like Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) and Cisco Systems (nasdaq: CSCO - news - people ), Gurian also says to buy integrated circuit maker Linear Technology (nasdaq: LLTC - news - people ) and publishing software company Adobe (nasdaq: ADBE - news - people ).
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