European markets posted further declines Tuesday in the wake of a downbeat investor survey for Germany.
The company reported weakness in the international airfreight market and provided a downbeat current-quarter earnings outlook.
Directed by Terry George ("Hotel Rwanda") this is a downbeat, depressing study of loss, guilt and anger.
The warnings provided a downbeat start to America's corporate earnings season, which is underway in earnest this week.
The Wednesday afternoon FOMC statement and Fed Chairman Bernanke press conference saw a downbeat assessment of the U.S. economy.
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More worrying still was a downbeat report from the services sector, which dwarfs manufacturing as a share of the economy.
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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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But when asked by a reporter if he would consider taking Massa's place if his injuries healed, the 40-year-old gave a downbeat assessment.
To be sure, struggling server vendor Sun Microsystems sounded a downbeat note during its earnings call last week, sending technology shares broadly lower.
This is a major drawback because sticking with a weak mix of funds for a year in a downbeat market is a recipe for disaster.
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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In America and in Britain, on both the hardback and paperback lists, non-fiction books with a life-affirming or self-improving message are holding their own against those with a downbeat one.
This was met with a downbeat punch, however, when the Commerce Department released its third revision to the U.S. gross domestic product in the third quarter, pulling it down to 1.8% from 2%.
To be sure, struggling server vendor Sun Microsystems (nasdaq: JAVA - news - people ) sounded a downbeat note during its earnings call last week, sending technology shares broadly lower.
"It's the same old, same old, " said a downbeat Wales coach Warren Gatland, the frustration bouncing out of him and sidekicks Shaun Edwards, Rob Howley and Matthew Rees as they faced the media pack.
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.
The movie is a remorselessly downbeat version of a gin-and-tears Hollywood bio-pic.
The BBC's Chief Political Correspondent Norman Smith said senior Lib Dems had struck a relentlessly downbeat tone about the economy in recent days.
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Traders are expected a somewhat downbeat U.S. economy assessment from the Fed chief, and will be parsing his words for other economic and monetary policy clues.
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First, the earnings season underway now sounds a little downbeat.
In a surprisingly frank speech last week, Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis gave a very downbeat assessment of the national economy, saying it was obvious it was not functioning as it should.
The contrast between a bedraggled and downbeat boxer and the Danish excitement was stark.
There has been a steady drumbeat of downbeat news about retirement lately.
Meehan's apprehension was no doubt coloured by his experience of two Ravenhill defeats while assistant coach at Stade Francais, but nevertheless his pre-match assessement seemed somewhat downbeat considering a ball had not even been kicked in the new campaign.
Newman's songs have a reputation for focusing on the downbeat, but he doesn't just write songs of disillusionment and despair.
But for European leaders, this downbeat reaction is part of a pattern: they often react morosely to success.
The downbeat news pushed the euro to a two-and-a-half-month high against the dollar this week.
When it said recently it expected the UK economy to shrink slightly in the first quarter of 2012, I did wonder whether the downbeat prediction would turn out to be a counter-indicator - a sign that we had definitely avoided a double dip.
If I'm making the film sound downbeat, incidentally, I'm doing it a disservice.
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