Only two of the 32 sports stocks in the table below had negative total returns in the first quarter.
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And while stocks have had negative total returns in more than a third of the years since 2000, the trailing one-year returns of major coporate bond indexes have slipped into negative territory only 8 percent of the time.
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However, net negative government saving (the budget deficit) overwhelms the others and make total national saving negative.
But for the first three months of the year, Digital Realty's total return was negative 0.31%, while Dupont was roughly flat at positive 0.46%.
As our study indicates, each recession in the past 42 years was preceded by a period of negative growth in real gross total debt.
"It's bad optics to pay out at the maximum level when total shareholder return is negative, " Mr. Becker says.
More U.S. companies are limiting the stock rewards for top leaders in down years by restricting certain compensation when total shareholder return is negative.
The distribution of ratings so far: 647 gold, 944 silver, 1, 107 bronze, 1, 366 neutral and 235 negative out of a total of 4, 299 rated fund share classes.
Not being quite so sure ranging from believing that total feedback could be negative (an extreme view, true) through evens, to only increasing as a logarithm of CO2 levels to the consensus view of 2-4.5 oC.
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But as long as the beneficial stress of pursuing an obsession outweighs those other factors, then yes, professing can be a job that carries a relatively lesser amount of negative stress, even of the total stress level is high.
Inc. was a close second, returning negative 5.2% on a total return basis.
Using the data from 1913 through the end of 2011, the correlation between the maximum marginal income tax bracket and total Federal receipts is a negative 0.50.
Series I bonds consist of two components: a fixed interest rate return and an adjustable inflation-linked return, making them somewhat similar to TIPS. The fixed rate never changes, but the inflation return rate is adjusted every six months and can also be negative (which of course brings your total return down).
That's 300 million negative votes -- more than twice as many than the total number of ballots cast in the 2012 US presidential election.
Feeling underappreciated is, in large measure, a numbers game: If you limit your exposure to negative inputs, positive ones become over-represented in the total number you receive.
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Unemployment claims in the U.S. once again provided a negative shock to investors as initial claims shot up to a total of 472K and was one more jab to the dollar.
It total, 80% of teachers surveyed said they believed poverty had a negative impact on pupils' attainment - with problems including under-achievement, not having a quiet place to study at home, inability to concentrate and lack of access to computers and the internet.
Most REITs in the category have provided a total return of 1% to 5% this year, compared with a negative 0.5% return for all REITs, according to PaineWebber.
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