"We expect the choppiness in the data to persist in the near term, but look for the broader underlying trend in both the quarterly national index and the monthly composite-20 index to remain positive, " Chen says.

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Gerard Bermingham senior vice president of business strategy for Information Mosaic, wrote that without a defined cutover date, data coexistence could persist indefinitely.

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Further, European debt issues persist and much of the recent data prior to stronger-than-forecast U.S. non-farm payrolls on Friday have fallen short of market expectations.

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All of these processes deal with varying degrees of sensitive data and unless a savvy corporation asks for that data to be encrypted and transmits that data in a secure fashion, risks continue to persist.

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Merck says the data show that the heart risk from Vioxx does not persist, because the difference in outcomes between patients who stopped taking the drug and patients who stopped taking a placebo is not statistically significant.

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Companies are reluctant to move policy data to newer platforms because of the risks and costs, and life insurance policies persist as long as the policyholder is alive.

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