Now it is often seen as a bellwether of Sunni-Shiite relations as Shiite influence in the region continues to grow — and with it, fear of Iranian meddling.
Copper, often seen as a bellwether of global activity, has dropped by 8%.Furthermore, if economic sentiment were improving significantly, you would expect investors to sell government bonds as well as gold.
The company, whose results are often viewed as a bellwether of the United States economy, cited strength in several industrial sectors and raised its estimate for aluminum consumption this year, even as metal prices have been falling recently.
The real question is, when does that increase kick in?" Because Lazard relies on advising companies in mergers and in restructuring, it is often seen as a bellwether of the deal economy.
Because of its main business of advising on mergers, Lazard is often seen as a bellwether of the deal economy.Lazard's results also come about a year after the death of Bruce Wasserstein, the deal-maker who took the firm public.
As a corporation, Box is often viewed as a bellwether of sorts.
Norbert Röttgen, the minister for environment, nature conservation, and nuclear safety, was asked to leave his post in early spring following an embarrassing defeat in elections in his home state, North Rhine Westphalia, which had often been seen as a bellwether of the "health" of the national government (more than one-fifth of Germany's population resided in the state).
Meanwhile cultural life, so often a bellwether in Russia, carries faint but unmistakable echoes of the opening under perestroika, the restructuring of Soviet society that Mikhail S. Gorbachev introduced in the 80s.
But London is often a bellwether.
