So it can act as a canary in the coal mine as it were.
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It seems that now, had we been paying attention, they may have been the canary in the coal mine.
The Yen is the currency acting as the canary in the coal mine.
In the current market, these stocks are our canaries in the coal mine.
So here is the key question: was the IBM report a canary in the coal mine for large-cap multinationals pulling back their spending?
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Interest costs a canary in the coal mine, for both plans?
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Small caps are your best canaries in the coal mine for risk appetite and the US picture, the stocks making up the RUT have much less overseas exposure than their larger cap brethren.
One early-warning system: inserting rodents with depressed immune systems (known as "nude sentinels, " because they happen to be a hairless breed) into the general population of rodents--canaries in the coal mine, if you will.
The speed of Iceland's downfall in the week since it announced it was nationalizing Glitnir bank, the country's third largest, caught many by surprise, despite warnings it was the "canary in the coal mine" of the global credit squeeze.
However, like a the proverbial canary in a the coal mine, advertising stocks start to plunge a full quarter before a recession.
At least 11 workers were injured in the incident at the Collum coal mine in the southern town of Sinazongwe.
Inequities of power, privilege, and income have created a canary in the toxic coal mine scenario.
The explosion is similar to blasts that have occurred in industries, such as in a coal mine when coal dust in the air ignites and explodes.
The China First Project is a thermal coal mine in the undeveloped Galilee Basin coal region in Queensland.
Their target: the Maikuben coal mine in northern Kazakhstan, owned by the American firm AES Corp.
" Or the hard-hat-wearing, improbably gorgeous models sweating it out in a coal mine to the sound of Merle Travis' "Sixteen Tons.
The band was founded in 1917 by workers from the local coal mine.
It must be burned in power plants at the mouth of the mine, yet environmentalists will oppose any expansion in coal-fired lignite plants.
Several generations before, the family had sold its private coal mine in exchange for shares of the coal company.
Massey Energy for failing to report more than 20 accidents at its Upper Big Branch coal mine in the two years before an April explosion killed 29 miners there, according to documents released by the Mine Safety and Health Administration on Tuesday.
Seneca has been withdrawing polluted water from the Arnot No. 5 coal mine in Tioga County since late 2010 and piping it some 6 miles to the well pad.
Methane trapped in the workings of a former Nottinghamshire coal mine could be used to create electricity.
In the last year alone, 29 people died in a New Zealand coal mine, 11 on a Gulf oil rig and 27 in a Mexican pipeline explosion.
The statement said that ANZ had withdrawn funding for Whitehaven's proposed Maules Creek mine due to "reputational risks and analysis of the returns on this mine in the current climate of high volatility in the coal export market".
Two protesters have been arrested after chaining themselves to machinery at a coal mine at The Wrekin in Shropshire.
The company operates three surface coal mines in the Powder Region Basin (PRB) located in Montana and Wyoming, which is the lowest cost major coal producing region in the U.S. CLD also owns a 50% interest in Decker mine, which is also located in the PRB.
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