Some traders and other market experts, however, played down the impact on the market of what they irreverently called the "misleading indicators."

Yet big crowds at airports are a misleading indicator of the airline industry's health, new figures show.

Chinese officials rarely miss an opportunity to argue that the trade statistics showing huge surpluses are misleading indicators of the country's prosperity.

He has authored a significant number of our landmark opinions, but that alone would be a misleading indicator of his impact.

Strategists say payout ratios can sometimes be misleading indicators for cyclical stocks, like those of commodity producers.

And they said it would reopen the debate over whether informal "straw polls" were a leading or a misleading indicator of a candidate's real political strength.

The work is blurry on purpose; its message is that hair is a surrogate for personal identity, but it's an imperfect and misleading indicator.

Nest success as a misleading indicator of habitat quality in the Botteri's Sparrow.

In light of the reluctance to believe its findings, maybe they should call it the index of misleading indicators.

This is a partly misleading indicator because it does not, for example, take account of how important public and community services are to the poor.