Appropriately enough, the U.S. Commerce Department reported earlier Wednesday that retail sales for September fell 1.2% from August, a strong beat below the 0.7% expected by Wall Street.
Charlotte Edwards remains as captain, and should have a squad strong enough to beat a traditionally weak Sri Lanka unit, despite the absence of key bowlers Brunt and Colvin, and wicketkeeper-batter Taylor.
Halliburton reported a strong quarter to beat analyst estimates with earnings of 53 cents per share, and even though costs associated with the BP Gulf oil spill could have an impact in the future the oil and gas services firm saw its shares up 3.5%.
Competing in open immediate coxed fours, they raced against generally much younger crews and came through three rounds to beat a strong Stourport crew in the final.
Time Warner booked a strong quarter as profits beat expectations.
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The ability to beat the Republican incumbent gave Kerry a strong showing with African-American voters in South Carolina, Missouri and Delaware.
The conservative national party (Zelaya's opponents who he barely beat in 2005) is in a very strong position heading into the general election campaign which will be held on November 29, 2009 but has already began in earnest (Honduras has one of the longest election seasons in Latin America).
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Bordeaux must have sensed there was an opportunity for them to beat an English team for the first time and put themselves in a strong position to qualify from the group.
The other sharp equities move in Asia was in the Philippines, where the PSE Composite dropped 3.2% as strong first quarter growth data beat expectations, triggering profit-taking in a market that has already gained 21% so far in 2013.
When Boeing announced its fourth quarter earnings on Wednesday, it beat analyst expectations thanks in part to a record backlog of orders, and strong demand from customers to add to their Dreamliner fleets.
His successor, Michael Howard, beat a humiliating retreat on performance-related pay after the police staged a mass 20, 000-strong protest rally at Wembley Stadium.
Meanwhile, Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson predicted British Paralympians had a strong chance of coming second in the Games' medal table, although she added that China would be dificult to beat.
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