However, it may also reflect the bottoming-out of prices and activity in the US housing market following the collapse of last decade's property bubble.
Princess Diana, of course, who was killed on August 31, 1997 while fleeing the press (although, some controversy still looms), seemed to represent the bottoming-out of the paparazzi-for-hire.
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There is a clear downward trend until October, the most recently reported month, when revenue growth rose to -4.1% after bottoming out at -4.9% in September.
This puts the market at a 640 valuation sometime this year unless there's evidence of the economy bottoming out by year-end.
Secondary-market yields on Italian debt have risen markedly since bottoming out in early March.
In the middle one (1999-2001), the precipitous decline continues or a bottoming out occurs after the overall economy begins to recover, albeit usually in a hesitant manner, and then the market accompanying the crashed sector begins to improve at a faster pace.
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And real-estate analysts say there are signs that the market is bottoming out.
"It's bottoming out or very close to the bottom, " says one-time actor Mobius.
After bottoming out at the beginning of 2009, orders for U.S.-made durable goods had been rising smartly until they lost steam again over the last couple of months.
After bottoming out in 1998, selling 90, 000 cars in a 15.5 million-car market, Hyundai quadrupled sales to 375, 000 last year.
After bottoming out in 1998, selling 90, 000 cars in a 15.5 million-car market, Hyundai quadrupled sales to 375, 000 last year, half of all Hyundai's exports.
Since bottoming out at 60.23 at the end of 2008, the average has now recovered to pre-crisis levels, having added more than 40 points over the last 52 months.
Today only about 700, 000 live there, mostly in single-family homes, and that number is expected to keep shrinking for the next 20 years, eventually bottoming out around 600, 000.
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