barometer

A closely watched barometer of financial-market stress on Thursday climbed to its highest level since the eurozone debt crisis.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

The Paramount financing will be a closely watched barometer of dealmaking appetite despite rising borrowing costs in 2026.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

Chairman of the Isle of Man Foodbank David Gawne said the third sector was also seeing the impact, and said the charity had become "something of a barometer" for the island's economic pressures.

From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026

But this time around, it has become a new barometer of actual AI demand in the data-center, electrical-grid and power-infrastructure sectors.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 27, 2026

The barometer had only recently been invented, and Descartes was one of the first people to suggest that what it measured was the weight of air pressing down on the surface of the Earth.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin

Both are considered barometers for the economy’s health.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026

And besides that, with their hard-fought Final Four victories Friday over Texas and Connecticut, respectively, barometers for other programs that dream of ascending to such elite heights.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 4, 2026

And special elections, while useful metrics, are far from perfect barometers of public opinion.

From Salon ● Mar. 1, 2026

More recent employment barometers, meanwhile, suggest companies are not hiring many people.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 18, 2025

Extra clothes, books, scientific instruments and specimens, chess sets, flags, lanterns, tools, sewing kits, lucky talismans, razors, barometers, combs, scissors, playing cards, dishes, silverware, photographs—each man added to the heap.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong