(n.) One of several species of wild goats having very large, recurved horns, transversely ridged in front; -- called also steinbok.
Example Sentences:
(1) Spain's IBEX has tumbled more than 2%, despite its central bank predicting that the country's recession is over.
(2) Campa was speaking as the Ibex index of Madrid's most traded stocks plunged for a second day and the cost of protecting investors against a default of Spanish debt reached a record high.
(3) Spanish IBEX: up 42 points at 7476, +0.55% Italian FTSE MIB: up 68 points at 15335, +0.45% Worryingly, Italian and Spanish longer-term debt has not rallied as much as the shorter-term bonds.
(4) UK FTSE 100: down 0.75%, or 44 points, at 5845 Germany DAX: down 0.9% France CAC 40: down 0.9% Spain IBEX: down 1.1% Italy FTSE MIB: down 1% 8.20am BST In the Wall Street Journal this morning Charles Goodhart and Sony Kapoor ask whether the eurozone crisis has turned a corner.
(5) In female ibex up to an age of six years, a sufficiently accurate age determination can be made based on the degree of skeletal ossification and length of the bones (s. Table 2).
(6) Spanish 10-year bond yields fell to a six-month low of 5.5% and the Ibex stock market in Madrid jumped by 1.4%, after Moody's confounded investors' expectations and left the country's rating unchanged.
(7) Here's an early round-up: FTSE 100: up 18 points at 5827, +0.3% DAX: up 40 points at 6959, + 0.6% CAC: up 28 points at 3430, + 0.85% IBEX: up 139 points at 7193.
(8) The FTSEurofirst300 index fell 1.4%, driven by selloffs in Frankfurt (DAX down 1.9%), Paris (CAC down 2.65%), Madrid (IBEX down 1.2%) and Milan (FTSE MIB down 2%).
(9) Virus isolates from a blue wildebeest, a sika deer and an ibex had restriction endonuclease DNA cleavage patterns that were in general similar to each other.
(10) • FTSE 100 : up 18 points at 5811, + 0.3% • German DAX : up 49 points at 7278, +0.6% • French CAC : up 30 points at 3419, + 0.9% • Spain's IBEX : up 56 points at 7708, + 0.75% • Italy's FTSE MIB : up 120 points at 15632, + 0.8% Spread-betters had been predicting that concerns over the global economy would push shares lower.
(11) The Italian blue-chip index, the FTSE MIB index, fell by 3.25%, while the Spanish Ibex lost 2.8%.
(12) • The FTSE 100 has fallen 0.62% at 5793.32 • Germany's Dax is down 0.68% • France's Cac has closed 0.72% lower • Spain's Ibex is off 1.06% • Italy's FTSE MIB has dropped 0.78% • The Dow Jones Industrial Average is currently down 11 points But Spanish and Italian bond yields have edged lower again, so Spain may well feel it can hold out on any bailout request.
(13) The Dax in Frankfurt is up 0.5% while the Ibex in Madrid has perked up 0.6%.
(14) The biggest falls on European bourses were in Milan, where the FTSE MIB slid 549 points to 13,114 and in Madrid, where the Ibex shed 252 points to 6624.
(15) Here's a closing summary: FTSE 100: down 22 points at 5893, - 0.37% German DAX: down 10 points at 7401, - 0.14% French CAC: down 26 points 3555, - 0.73% Spanish IBEX: down 6 points at 8148, -0.08% Italian FTSE MIB: down 154 points at 16470, - 0.93% With Spanish bond yields still sharply higher today, there is concern in the City that the eurocrisis is poised to flare up again.
(16) Updated at 10.10am BST 8.12am BST EUROPEAN MARKETS FALL AT THE OPEN Financial markets in Europe have dropped at the start of trading: FTSE 100 index: down 34 points at 5858, - 0.6% German DAX: down 49 points at 7354, -0.8% French CAC: down 23 points at 3530, - 0.66% Spanish IBEX: down 50 points at 8097, - 0.6% Italian FTSE MIB: down 95 points at 16375, - 0.6% Spain isn't the only reason.
(17) 9.32am BST Market update Not much drama to report in the financial markets, where stock markets are pretty flat in early trading (Spain's IBEX is the most 'interesting', down around 0.5%).
(18) FTSE 100: up 18 points at 5798, + 0.3% German DAX: up 32 points at 7322, + 0.45% French CAC: up 6 points at 3446, + 0.2% Spanish IBEX: up 44 points at 7886, + 0.57% Italian FTSE MIB: up 80 points at 15529.
(19) FTSE 100: up 17 points at 5675, + 0.3% German DAX: up 25 points at 6989, + 0.25% French CAC: up 11 points at 3417, up 0.35% Spanish IBEX: up 59 points at 7553, up 0.79% Italian FTSE MIB: up 60 points at 15188, up 0.38% Cameron Peacock , market analyst at IG Markets, warned that shares could swiftly retreat if the ECB doesn't deliver: Should Mr Draghi fail to provide the market with an acceptable level of detail of the intended programme, there is the very real risk of a short-term pull back in the euro, particularly now, given it has rallied on the back of last night’s leaks.
(20) • The FTSE 100 has finished down 0.11%, a fall of nearly 100 points on the week • Germany's Dax is down 0.58% • France's Cac has closed up 0.47% • Italy's FTSE MIB is 0.09% lower • Spain's Ibex is up 0.16% • The Athens market is up 0.92% • The Dow Jones Industrial Average is up 64 points at the moment And with that we're off.
Steinbock
Definition:
(n.) The European ibex.
(n.) A small South African antelope (Nanotragus tragulus) which frequents dry, rocky districts; -- called also steenbok.
Example Sentences:
(1) Steinbock reviews the precedents for Procanik as well as cases where courts have shied away from awarding damages to infants because of an unwillingness to compare the relative merits of nonlife versus an impaired life.
(2) Sarcosporidiasis is a very common infection of steinbocks (Capra ibex) and chamois (Rupicapra rupicapra) of Gran Paradiso National Park, Italian Western Alps, frequently with serious cardiac involvement.
(3) Steinbock, a professor of philosophy and public policy, takes a psychological approach of exploring the reasons for the refusal and of gentle persuasion.
(4) None of the assays predicted either future disease activity, as measured by subsequent ESR, CRP, and articular index; or functional outcome, as measured by wrist extension, Steinbocker functional capacity, and the Stanford health assessment questionnaire.
(5) of Capra ibes of P.N.G.P., and that sarcosporidiasis of steinbocks is transmitted inside the Parco (P.N.G.P.)
(6) Between us on the misty track stands a magnificent steinbock , or Alpine ibex, with great curling horns.
(7) No dogs or cats are allowed inside the Park, to the contrary foxes (Vulpes vulpes) are present every where, near steinbocks and chamois, and eat on the bodies of dead animals.