It was on a downward slide, though, well before most of us had heard of Mr Adoboli.

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Last November, the stock began a downward slide after InPhonic released its earnings for the third quarter of 2005.

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Even if the current vehicle market has seen its peak and is now on a downward slide, a one to two million vehicle market by 2032?

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Now the course is set on further international expansion into the Baltic countries, Germany and the UK, regions with a similar downward slide in math results.

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The Dow Jones Industrial Average continued its downward slide, which in three weeks has brought a 9% drop.

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While many hope the improved transatlantic coordination will stop the downward slide, recession looms over both sides of the Atlantic like a dark cloud.

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For the past decade production in the North Sea has been dwindling but a new boom in gas extraction off the east coast may soon reverse that downward slide.

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The long-term chart of the euro shows the steady slide from the 2011 high at 1.4925 and a well-defined downward trading channel (lines c and d) .

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