Sentence examples for a forward-looking indicator from inspiring English sources

Already the market, a forward-looking indicator, seems to be looking beyond the valley of these tough times and forecasting a brighter second half for 2008.

"It's not necessarily a forward-looking indicator".

That good news is tempered somewhat (as all good economic news must be) by the knowledge that job vacancies is a forward-looking indicator.

The May figure was also the lowest since the association started tracking such contract activity as a forward-looking indicator in 2001.

500 over a chart of deal volume over the last 30 years, you'd see that deal-making is a lagging, not a forward-looking, indicator to the stock market.

There has certainly been the mother and father of a winter going on in the US, but one of the standout features of the report was the weakness of new orders, a forward-looking indicator.

In this cycle, job losses have, so far, been "only" slightly over a million, while labor market conditions are severely worsening based on all forward-looking indicators such as initial and continuing claims for unemployment benefits.

The stockmarket can be a better forward-looking indicator than business opinion.

People always research areas before they move in, and the volume of that search activity can be a good forward-looking indicator of rising investment potential.

There is the macro-economic stuff, which obviously includes GDP and employment, and also the purchasing managers' indices (PMIs), which give the best forward-looking indicator for what is likely to happen in the next few months.

Forward-looking indicators suggest a gloomier picture.