One of the bellwether marks of the growth and vitality of the Church is the construction of temples. . . . We will keep on working to bring the temples to the people, making it more convenient for Latter day Saints everywhere to receive the blessings which can only be had in these holy houses.
Quotes about bellwether (16 Quotes)
You're really going to need to see some bellwether companies saying the quality of earnings is improving and that it's due to growth, not cost-cutting, before investors are going to be willing to set aside the skepticism.
There have been some bellwether events that have been pleasing to us as investors, and really China listing all of these state-owned banks and insurance companies has been inspiring. They've all managed to get out on the market, support relatively high PE ratios, and they've had a great run in the last few months.
Wal-Mart is not a bellwether for the broader industry this season. The action isn't among their customers.
Rising long rates threaten the bellwether housing industry as well as consumer spending. The higher bond returns begin to compete with stocks for institutional affection.
I think people assume Merrill wouldn't say something like that unless they expect pretty good news from Intel when it reports tomorrow after the bell. Intel is the technology bellwether, so if things look good for them, that bodes well for other techs.
I think many of the other tech stocks have begun to benefit. Fundamentally, since the market is moving away from desktop computing, a lot of the stocks, a lot of the companies have begun already to benefit fundamentally. But the market seems still to be tied to Microsoft as a stock, and slowly but surely I think we're going to unplug, detach from that, and technology stocks will be looked at independently. Microsoft will slowly lose its status as bellwether of technology.
The techs on balance have put in a fairly decent performance, ... We're getting a sense that there's a bottoming going on in the semiconductors. Some of the bellwether companies like Cisco are talking about a better environment in the future.
IBM is one of these big bellwether companies where their business is so solid that in a year like 2001, where everybody was missing, IBM never missed a quarter.
There is a lot of concern about Cisco's earnings. Rather than risk major disappointment, people are saying it might be better to stay out of the market. And because it is a bellwether stock, Cisco will have an impact on other tech stocks.
The University of California is arguably the flagship state university system in the country and a bellwether for opinion in how to proceed.
GM is such a bellwether, major company in the United States, and if they filed for bankruptcy, that just wouldn't be a good indication as to market conditions.
Florida has always been the poster-child for reform, first in a bad way in 2000 but then in a good way in responding to it. Florida is in many ways a bellwether of what might happen with other states around the country.
My latest comedy, Bellwether, let me go after everything that bugs me meetings, Barbie, trendy coffeehouses, those incompetent clerks who refuse to get off the phone to talk to you, and bread pudding.
Deploying Windows 2000, IP phones and Active Directory for administration and service delivery is a bellwether for how we see Merrill Lynch operating in the future.
Although we recognize that Oracle is one of the pre-eminent names in the software space and a technology bellwether, it is difficult to make an argument for the stock to move meaningfully higher over the near term, in our opinion.