gauges
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Wilding, an economist, looked at the two main gauges the Federal Reserve uses to help set monetary policy, which have been flashing quite different signals.
From MarketWatch • May 7, 2026
The mobile carrier gained a net 55,000 postpaid phone connections, beating Wall Street expectations on a key industry metric that gauges new lucrative customers.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 27, 2026
This will top up rain gauges in some locations but there will be gaps in between meaning some places will stay mostly or completely dry.
From BBC • Apr. 27, 2026
Economists at ING expect to see evidence of price pressures continuing to build in the PMI sub-indexes, and predict that both official gauges will tip back into contraction.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026
The gauges, this time, registered almost nothing: only a feeble and momentary tremor.
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
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