Sentence examples for economic bellwether from inspiring English sources

Stocks ended flat to slightly lower on Tuesday after the economic bellwether FedEx cut its profit forecast.

Mintel, meanwhile, says that at least one part of the home diagnostics market may be an economic bellwether.

All that on Thursday afternoon, rounded out on Friday morning with the first profit increase in nine quarters for the economic bellwether General Electric.

Because the company includes a wide range of industries and sells products all over the globe, its results are a closely watched economic bellwether.

G.M. stock, an economic bellwether that sold above $35 only three years ago, closed Friday at $3.62; it has fallen as low as $1.27 in the last year.

U.P.S. is considered an economic bellwether because it delivers a wide variety of items, including clothing, auto parts and financial documents.

Both 3M and FedEx are viewed as economic bellwethers because they operate in so many parts of the economy.

FedEx and U.P.S. handle such a huge chunk of American and global shipping that they are considered economic bellwethers.

As finance jockeyed with technology as economic bellwethers, job hunters, fortune seekers and the news media hopped along for the ride.

But the cost of these estates doesn't serve as much of an economic bellwether--fluctuations of price in this stratosphere have almost no relationship to supply and demand in the broader market.

Disappointing earnings reported by big banks like Citigroup (ticker: C) and Bank of America (BAC) also rankled, as did the failure of economic bellwethers like 3M (MMM), Honeywell (HON) and Caterpillar (CAT) to deliver earnings that met increasingly high hopes.