Newman's songs have a reputation for focusing on the downbeat, but he doesn't just write songs of disillusionment and despair.
The U.S. dollar index was weaker Tuesday on the downbeat economic data.
German bunds also rallied Friday on the generally downbeat data coming out of the EU. There is also uncertainty among European investors regarding the upcoming Italian elections that begin this weekend.
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The U.S. dollar index was trading slightly lower early Thursday morning, but then immediately rallied on the fresh, downbeat news coming out of the European Union.
The firm already is betting that the pound will fall against the Australian and New Zealand dollars, reflecting the firm's downbeat view on the U.K. economy, and he wouldn't necessarily increase the negative view on sterling if a downgrade materialized.
The general market place is reacting to a downbeat speech on the U.S. economy by Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke Tuesday afternoon.
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On the stock market, the news is decidedly downbeat, particularly for the securities industry that makes money from trading volume.
Fossil did offer a downbeat view on the current quarter, predicting 84 to 94 cents a share in earnings, the result of shipments pulled ahead to March from April.
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The rough patch started with Monday's opening bell, as a downbeat weekend reading on Chinese economic growth and the largest slide in gold prices in 30 years sent the Dow to its biggest one-day drop of the year.
One outlier: Pulte Group, which surged on an analyst upgrade from Goldman Sachs that offset the downbeat housing data.
And, being on the street, John gets a firsthand sense of whether the street seems busy or quite, upbeat or downbeat.
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Rarely can Hewitt have looked so downbeat on court and Safin served out for the biggest win of his year, and a huge boost ahead of the Masters Cup later this month.
Macroeconomic factors like high gas prices and a slumping housing market are already rearing their ugly heads in the larger retail world--witness the downbeat April sales numbers that came out on May 10.
As I noted yesterday, Oclaro (OCLR) after the close on Tuesday issued an earnings warning, news that followed similarly downbeat reports from Ciena (CIEN), Finisar (FNSR) and EXFO (EXFO).
Three years after the launching of the Iraq invasion, you can play it upbeat or downbeat depending on whether you consider 2, 300 American lives and some 35, 000 Iraqi lives as necessary losses on the road to democracy, never mind the multi-billion dollar cost.
This, together with the downbeat comments about the year ahead, pushed Debenhams shares down 7.7% on Tuesday.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average's post-election slump continued, with the blue chip barometer slipping below 11, 100 at the end of the holiday-shortened week, which got off to a decidedly downbeat start Monday with FBI raids on several major hedge funds in connection with a major insider trading investigation.
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