The Dow is intended as a gauge of U.S. stocks, not the economy, said one of the men responsible for its composition, Dow Jones indexes editor and executive director John Prestbo.
The bank is watching U.S. oil demand trends closely for direction to gauge whether the U.S. employment outlook and car sales will pick up during next year.
Separately, a rise in new orders boosted the Chicago Business Barometer, a gauge of the U.S. manufacturing sector, to its highest level since March 2012, also trumping expectations.
Demand for U.S. Treasurys has been a gauge for the state of the U.S. economy as investors evaluate their need for safe assets.
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At the time of the purchases, Bank of America was discussing with the government the findings of "stress tests" used to gauge the safety of U.S. banks.
By another gauge, though, U.K. REITs aren't as pricey as you'd think: the stock price versus net asset value, which is the worth of a property portfolio after debt is taken out.
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Dell remains a better gauge of the health of U.S. corporate technology spending than its bigger, more diversified competitor Hewlett-Packard, which beat earnings expectations earlier this month.
Dell remains a better gauge of the health of U.S. corporate technology spending than its bigger, more diversified competitor Hewlett-Packard (nyse: HPQ - news - people ), which beat earnings expectations earlier this month.
The Institute for Supply Management's index of manufacturing activity, a forward-looking gauge of the strength of the U.S. manufacturing sector, came in at 53.7 on June 5, a level consistent with economic expansion.
Friday's meeting was an opportunity for the U.S. to gauge Tokyo's intent to join negotiations on the Trans-Pacific Partnership, or TPP, a regionwide free-trade pact pushed by Washington.
The U.S. Geological Service Gauge on the Hudson at North Creek was under 4 feet that day, and a few canoes occasionally scraped rocks.
We expect the company to expand this pilot to more cities in the U.S. to truly gauge its impact on consumer loyalty and retention.
In Afghanistan, where power has been progressively centralized in president Hamid Karzai, it is more important to gauge what he might be looking for in the U.S. elections.
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When this recession-warning gauge passes the threshold probability of 50%, the U.S. hotel industry enters a recession.
The daily price moves in the U.S. stock indexes continue to be the gauge for measuring investor risk appetite in the market place.
Sterling Smith, commodity trading adviser and market analyst at Country Hedging, said one weight on gold Wednesday was the retreat in the U.S. consumer price index, an inflation gauge.
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According to Reuters, the two-year U.S. interest rate swap spread--a gauge of financial system stress--was quoted at a record high 166.5 basis points in Asia, suggesting that concern about defaults among banking counterparties were worsening.
The U.S. and European stock markets will continue to be the gauge of overall investor risk appetite in the market place.
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The U.S. and European stock markets will continue to be the key gauge of worldwide investor risk appetite in the market place.
Consumer confidence is rising along with sales among retailers in the U.S. that are counting on holiday spending to meet Q4 projections and gauge sales strength going onto 2011.
The upbeat news from abroad helped lift U.S. stocks as investors shook off the Empire State Index, a gauge of manufacturing in New York that came in at negative 7.7, indicating worsening conditions and a shakier outlook.
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As gold made new all-time highs week after week, experts pointed to its safe haven status, the fact the sovereign debt issues rattled Europe and the U.S., and the fact that gold had become the new fear gauge.
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He had discovered a U.S. Army report suggesting that a military version of the Mossberg twelve-gauge, when dropped on its muzzle, can occasionally misfire.
Keep an extra close eye on U.S. Treasury bonds and notes futures prices, as they are a good daily gauge of the overall worldwide investor risk appetite, or lack thereof, in the market place.
Chip Case and Robert Shiller are known for the gauge of home prices that bears their name, but as that indicator continues to draw cheers for a U.S. housing recovery the pair warn that things are not quite as rosy as they appear.
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