signal
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So the trend of the VIX’s buy signal for stocks remains in place.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 27, 2026
Universities are getting “a signal from both students and families” that what students learn needs to be relevant, he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has voiced confidence in BOJ Gov. Kazuo Ueda’s handling of policy-a remark market participants interpreted as a signal that the U.S. favors further monetary tightening in Japan.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
These spectacles produce a strong signal that encourages myopia in one eye, while the other eye provides a comparison.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026
At Alexander’s signal, they started tracking, moving in zigzags and ever-widening circles with their noses first to the ground, and then lifted high in the air.
From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood
As a result, breadth oscillators remain on sell signals.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 27, 2026
The latest figures "are hardly recessionary signals and provide little reason to expect any hint of dovishness from Kevin Warsh", wrote Matt Simpson, a market analyst at City Index.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
Satellites near Earth commonly rely on GPS for navigation, but those signals may be weak, unreliable, or unavailable around the Moon and in deep space.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026
By linking those samples with long-term health information and genetic data already held by the cohort studies, researchers hope to uncover biological signals associated with heavy menstrual bleeding.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
I watched Mr. Pinkerton step onto the rear platform, I assumed to keep an eye out for the lantern signals.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
The official signaled Bessent will make direct appeals to counterparts in bilateral meetings.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
The White House and Treasury Department have signaled they are prepared to take dramatic action.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 27, 2026
Nvidia signaled it is willing to pay higher memory-chip prices.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
During this time, the Fed kept short-term rates at zero, bought bonds to bring down long-term rates and signaled clearly to markets that these arrangements were for an extended period.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
He had found on other volcanoes that the release of SO2 sometimes signaled that an eruption was nearing.
From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone
Burnham has signalled a shift in north sea oil policy, earning praise from the Oval Office, but the dynamic between Miliband and Rubio will be closely watched.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
New UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham's first week in office signalled a shift in focus and style for the centre-left Labour government as he sought a clean break from predecessor Keir Starmer.
From Barron's ● Jul. 26, 2026
The bigger question is whether Burnham is likely to follow through with some of the more expensive policies he's previously signalled, including reforming social care or expanding council house building.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
Iran's foreign ministry spokesperson also signalled Monday that diplomatic exchanges with the United States -- via mediators -- were ongoing.
From Barron's ● Jul. 20, 2026
He smiled and, one hand holding onto the railing, the other waving, signalled me to come over.
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
OpenAI, after initially promising an IPO this year as well, is now signaling it will wait until 2027.
From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026
Earlier this year, the short interest—a measure of how many people are betting a stock will fall—in Moderna hit 20%, a level signaling intense pessimism.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026
According to the study, this protection depended on IL-10 signaling.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 21, 2026
“Part of it is signaling here, and to show that we believe that the yields don’t reflect the underlying fundamentals,” the Treasury secretary added.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026
Jabir demonstrated a few more tricks before clapping his hands and signaling for the dogs to stop and sit.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
Their statement is a way of "publicly signalling that there is no daylight between the US and UAE positions".
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
“The threat is not limited to superficial damage or coercive signalling but now carries a direct and substantial risk to seafarers,” said Dimitris Maniatis, Marisks’s founder and chief executive.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
Friday's data will also pose a question to the US Federal Reserve, which has been signalling it was preparing for a rate hike later this year.
From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026
Bosses say engineers have been working hard to "build additional resilience into our signalling systems to ensure that this doesn't happen again".
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
No one saw the pity of its position, hanging there in eternal meaninglessness, silently signalling to those with eyes to see, “I’m a legitimate punctuation mark, get me out of here.”
From "Eats, Shoots & Leaves" by Author
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