market breadth

It is a leading measure of what is known as market breadth.

Both saw poor market breadth in the first year, and were followed by lackluster markets.

Market breadth was good, but trading volumes were light.

"This shows the continuing divergence between the averages and the market breadth."

Market breadth, too, depended on which sectors one considered.

Yesterday's action provided mixed signals about market breadth, an indication that stocks outside of a few key sectors are doing better.

And market breadth - the difference between the number of stocks that rise and fall each day - is unimpressive.

An indicator of market breadth, it is intended to show the path being followed by the great bulk of stocks.

The opposite is that of market breadth measured as the price impact per unit of liquidity.

Market breadth was distinctly negative, with declining stocks outnumbering those advancing, 1,906 to 1,017.

The Nasdaq composite, a technology stock gauge, rose 38.58 points, or 1.94 percent, to 2,031.24, with market breadth narrowly positive.

Despite the wholesale gains in technology shares, market breadth was negative, with more stocks falling in price than rising.

Another measure of market breadth is the percentage of stocks in up trends, which we define as standing above their 30-week moving averages.

Market breadth was sharply positive.

Market breadth on Nasdaq was negative.

Prices are beginning to find technical support; market breadth is beginning to improve and there is at least minor reversal in price.

Market breadth was positive, with 1,940 issues higher and 1,182 lower on the New York Stock Exchange.

He bemoaned a lack of market breadth of late and called the market overvalued at more than 22 1/2 times next year's expected earnings.

Of the index components, winners outnumbered losers 248 to 229, evidence of the improved market breadth that has emerged lately.

A Narrow Rally The narrowness of yesterday's rally was reflected in market breadth figures.

Advance-Decline data are used to measure overall market breadth as well as to measure sentiment within the stock market sectors.

Later James Hughes pioneered the "Market Breadth Statistics".

Advancing issues barely led declining ones - 1,152 to 1,091 - on the New York Stock Exchange, indicating that market breadth was still poor.

Mr. Stevenson was also upbeat about market breadth, with 1,719 issues advancing on the New York Stock Exchange compared with 1,287 that declined.

Market breadth was favorable yesterday, with advancing issues outnumbering though declining by almost 2 to 1 on both the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq.