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Earnings season also picks up with industry bellwethers Intel Corp., JPMorgan Chase &Co. and General Electric Co. releasing quarterly results.
財報季節(jié)拉開序幕，行業(yè)巨頭英特爾公司，摩根大通銀行和通用電氣公司紛紛公佈季度財報。
"China's continued strong bank lending and massive reserve accumulation could be bellwethers of trouble to come, " said Eswar Prasad, former head of the International Monetary Fund's China division.
“中國持續(xù)強勁的銀行放貸和大槼模外滙儲備積累，可能是即將出現(xiàn)問題的先兆，”國際貨幣基金組織（IMF）中國部前主任埃斯瓦?普拉薩德（Eswar Prasad）表示。
The site presents the most current data from multiple sources in development bellwethers like public health, education and women’s empowerment.
網(wǎng)站展示來自多種途逕的發(fā)展指標(biāo)的最新數(shù)據(jù)，如公共健康、教育和婦女權(quán)益。

Bellwethers such as International Business Machines and Oracle should fare relatively well, in our view.
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Other global bellwethers have also suffered this year due to a marked global slowdown.
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With few statewide elections and nothing nationally in 2011, several initiatives in Ohio provide bellwethers with broad implications for 2012.
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If you describe something as a bellwether, you mean that it is an indication of the way a situation is changing.