This year has seen a marked deterioration in the Confederation of British Industry's indicator of business optimism.
Manpower, a recruitment consultant that tracks employers' intentions across the world's big economies, notes that the rise in Germany's indicator has been stronger than movements anywhere else.
OECD's indicator of product-market regulation (ie, the extent of state ownership, the red tape involved in setting up a business, and barriers to international trade and investment) again puts India at the bottom of the class.
It's an indicator that Iraq's leaders understand the importance of a government of national unity.
In three of the measures, including the government's preferred indicator, the trust performed about average nationally.
We often use it because it's a good indicator of what's going on.
Hence, if celebrity Republicans seem outrageously reactionary, it's an indicator of where the GOP and its base have moved and what it looks for in its screen idols.
The most important U.S. indicator is the jobless claims report.
The DNA's back is another indicator of HTC's recent change in design strategy.
On the surface that may not seem like a positive for HP but it's an important indicator of where spending is headed and at some level helps validate HP's purchase of Compaq.
There's one other important indicator on our Mother's Index: political status.
Unlike the signals on its vehicles in the U.S., this indicator flashes three times at the driver's touch and then shuts off.
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Nor is a currency's strength a reliable indicator of international confidence: despite the dollar's slide, few doubt that America's economic prospects, short- and medium-term, are better than Europe's.
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"If that's a good indicator, then we will see a recovery in the PC industry within six months, " he says.
That's a clear indicator as any that OLED TV is much more than just an incremental improvement to current television technology.
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This is one advantage over the Conference Board's leading economic indicator, which conceals useful information by combining longer- and shorter-term indicators in a single measure.
"It's a lagging indicator, not a leading indicator, " Steidtmann says.
There's an LED indicator at the top that glows red or green depending on its connection status and a speaker on the back that beeps when you've made a driving faux pas.
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And if Andrew Strauss's men needed any further indicator of Ricky Ponting side's decline, the two defeats in India followed their defeat by Pakistan at Headingley, making it the first time Australia have lost three Tests in a row since 1988-89.
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Early sales of the ATS in the U.S. isn't a fair indicator of the brand's potential, Mr. Ferguson said, because they reflect a failure to supply enough all-wheel-drive models in a segment where roughly half the cars sell with the feature.
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But according to US government statistics, Afghanistan's dismal rate of infant mortality, a basic indicator of a country's development, has shown no sign of improvement.
"You know, money is certainly a helpful yardstick, but it's not the only indicator of popularity or electability, " DeVore says.
Pinpointing the turn in the housing market is a tough call, but it's the critical leading indicator for a bull market.
He said that the Airline did not have any plans to lay off any additional employees but will look at this week's business as an indicator to outlook the future.
Karachi residents and members of the media said the show of public support for Bhutto had more to do with the fact that Pakistani's love a good party and shouldn't necessarily be seen as an indicator of Bhutto's popularity.
If Comscore's data is an early indicator of a growing trend they have a major problem.
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