The study subjects also saw their cholesterol levels - another key heart risk indicator - more than halved on average.
Another advantage of Form-4 is that it must be filed with the SEC within two business days which makes it as close to a real-time indicator on insider activity as one could hope for.
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HSBC's China PMI is seen as a forward-looking indicator, based on surveys with executives in over 420 manufacturing companies.
The three-blink indicator was introduced on the new Fiesta in 2010 and is now available on most of Ford's products.
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It should be noted that even if the December lows were broken, the long-term positive action of the on-balance volume (OBV) indicator would still keep my long-term trend analysis positive.
However, on the most obvious indicator of all - the oil price - it's very much a double-edged sword.
Margin debt, a seldom-referenced indicator of confidence and speculation has contracted on a yearly percentage change as much as in the bear markets of '74, '82, '87 and '01.
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Though it had not been invented yet, one of my favorite technical tools, the on-balance volume (OBV) indicator, which was developed by Joe Granville, gave some very interesting signals.
There is a battery life indicator on the left handlebar, and the Shimano Revo-shift lever -- which controls what gear you're in -- on the right.
Frogs, which breathe and process toxins through their skin, are considered a promising area for pharmaceutical research and a bio-indicator that can tell scientists about what's going on in the environment.
The Labour Market Survey is a more reliable indicator of what's going on in the economy, including full-time students who want part-time work.
And we also know that the Fed relies on the lagging economic indicator of unemployment, rather than forward-looking price signals, to set policy.
The Fed rests comfortably within the consensus on all these variables, but seems ahead of the crowd on new orders for non-defense capital goods, a critical indicator.
The Globes - which recognise both film and television - are often regarded as an indicator of the movies and actors who will go on to win honours at the Academy Awards.
Players will be able to get a taste of the dragon invasion with the Kaijduo Dragon Master Collection Kit dropping on February 19, but if these previews are any indicator the 60-card Dragonstrike Infernus will be the set to watch for dragon enthusiasts and lovers of huge creatures.
This pension bill passed the Arizona legislature on party-line votes, which in most cases would not be an indicator of political progress.
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Though not featured in this article, the recent highs in the major averages were also confirmed by the weekly on-balance volume (OBV), which is also quite a reliable indicator.
This approach has been independently proven to be a leading-indicator of behavior and, axiomatically, since more positive consumer behavior should produce more returns on efforts, can provide marketers with a real proxy for ROI.
Retreating Arctic ice is considered a key indicator of the pace of global warming by environmentalists, and one that could have devastating knock-on repercussions for the wider climate, including warmer oceans and rising sea levels.
Online companies pounce on every whisper or cryptic comment from Google about how it ranks pages as an indicator--up or down--of how online traffic will flow for millions of Web sites.
The forward-looking indicator for general business conditions experienced a sharp fall as well, dropping to 22.45 on the index from 52.69 from May, driven by a larger number of manufacturers that now expect business conditions to worsen.
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Short-dated futures responded more to this less optimistic forward-looking indicator than to the inflation reading given that it is not only backwards looking but also based on the fact that the ECB has already shown its readiness to raise rates on inflation grounds.
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My seasonal strategy will give its re-entry sometime between October 16 and the end of November, depending on what the additional technical indicator I use says at the time.
Inflation-indexed Treasurys are also cited as providing a quiescent inflation indicator, calculated by subtracting their yield from the yield on normal Treasury bonds.
The private-sector economists who provide The Economist each month with forecasts for the big economies (published on our indicator pages) are allowed no such luxury.
On its website is a note suggesting that a 2% annualised fall in its indicator over a six-month period, with more than half of the components worsening, provides a reliable though not perfect warning of recession.
StackAR, the second project, functions in much the same way, but instead of outputting a countdown indicator, it displays schematics for a LilyPad Arduino when placed on the tablet, identifying connectors based on a pre-selected program.
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