Bellwether的意思|Bellwether的解释-里氏词典

bellwether ['bel,weðә]

n. 系铃带头羊, 前导, 领导者

The degree to which the paper is censored is a political bellwether.
对报纸审查的程度是一个政治预兆。
Construction in the United States continues to be a bellwether of the economy.
美国的建筑业继续保持经济领头羊的地位。
Intel Corp, for instance, hastraditionally been a bellwether for thesemiconductor industry.
例如英特尔一向就是半导体行业的龙头股。

bellwether

[ noun ]

someone who assumes leadership of a movement or activity

<noun.person>

sheep that leads the herd often wearing a bell

<noun.animal>

Bellwether \Bell"weth`er\, n.
1. A wether, or sheep, which leads the flock, with a bell on
his neck.

2. Hence: A leader. [Contemptuous] --Swift.

As the first wines of the year, the Beaujolais nouveau, normally considered an inexpensive lightweight, served as a bellwether to both quality and the price the market will bear.
The Parnes hearing also may prove a bellwether for other possible extradition proceedings.
The Canadian government's 30-year bellwether issue yielded 9.18% in late trading yesterday.
But shortly thereafter the U.S. construction industry, a bellwether of the business cycle, began to falter.
The new 30-year Treasury bonds yield nearly 4 1/2 percentage points more than the Japanese bellwether 10-year government bond.
The bond market's bellwether security, the 30-year Treasury bond, ended about 1/8 lower, or about $1.25 for a bond with a $1,000 face amount.
The yield on the bellwether 30-year Treasury bond finished at 8.56 percent, up from 8.45 percent late Thursday and 8.35 percent on Wednesday.
The Japanese government's bellwether 5% issue due November 1997 closed at a yield of 4.66%, down from 4.765% Wednesday.
The Treasury's bellwether 30-year bond rose 11-16 point, or $6.88 per $1,000 in face amount, at closing Monday.
It was also considered a bellwether of the appeal of Vargas Llosa, the presidential front-runner, as well as a gauge of just how unpopular Garcia's center-left Aprista party has become.
Paramount's shifting course is a bellwether of the challenges confronting Hollywood.
The analysts in question are followers of the "GM bellwether" indicator, one of the many traditional tools developed over the years to try to outguess the direction of stock prices.
Teradyne appears to be a bellwether, analysts said.
The panel forecast that the federal funds rate, a bellwether interest rate for judging the impact of Fed actions, will dip from 8.25 percent down to 7.5 percent by mid-year.
Late in the session, Denver's new bellwether issue, the 7.75% issues of 2021 were quoted 3/8 point lower at 93 3/8 to yield 8.33%.
The Treasury's bellwether 30-year bond, for instance, has tumbled to about 8 percent, its lowest level in more than two years.
"I think those who want to defeat me have set Florida up as a bellwether state," said Shaw.
The bond market's bellwether security, the 30-year Treasury bond, rose about 1/2 point yesterday, a gain of about $5 for a bond with a $1,000 face amount.
The yield on the bellwether 30-year bond tumbled Friday, ending the week at 8.82% after rising to 9.03% earlier in the week and hitting the highest level in nearly a year.
The bellwether blue-chip index showed a 20-point decline at the start of trading but managed to return half way to its opening level by early afternoon. Early on, there was little to influence sentiment.
Bond prices fell, with the bellwether 30-year bond falling 19-32 point, or $5.94 per $1,000 face amount.
Traders said U.S. treasuries, British, West German and Japanese government issues all fell after the reports circulated. In New York, the bellwether 30-year issue eased slightly in the early going.
The yield on the Treasury's bellwether 30-year bond rose to 9.15 percent from 9.11 percent, although some analysts blamed the decline on the Treasury's auction of long-term bonds Thursday rather than the action in the currency markets.
The bond market's bellwether security, the benchmark 30-year Treasury bond, slid nearly 1 3/4 points, a loss of $17.50 for a bond with a $1,000 face amount.
Towards the end of the quarter producers again chopped the list price for northern bleached softwood kraft pulp by $25. This bellwether grade now lists at $575 a metric ton, down 30% from $830 a metric ton a year ago.
It's considered the bellwether security for the entire bond market; its yield is used as a benchmark from which yields on other long-term securities are determined by the market.
Fidelity's Mr. Ewing says he is watching two bellwether reverse LBOs that still hope to go public this year: Owens-Illinois, which hopes to raise $840 million, and Healthtrust Inc., which plans to raise $600 million before year end.
Now, Mr. Lewis is a bellwether of the liberal crowd and a Supreme Court justice himself in all but name.
The noncallable debentures were priced at a spread of 0.90 percentage point above the Treasury's bellwether 30-year bond.
That would compare with the market's bellwether California revenue anticipation notes maturing in late June, which now yield about 4.35%.

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