The oil price has crept back up over the past fortnight after a sharp fall.
Fast Retailing, the firm behind budget fashion brand Uniqlo recently posted a sharp fall in sales.
What is more, there has been a sharp fall in the number of teachers.
By the same token, a sharp fall on Wall Street may be less of a worry.
Italy, Spain and Portugal will all see a sharp fall in GDP this year.
Mr Uribe can point to a sharp fall in violence since he took office.
And lenders have as much to lose as individual homeowners from a sharp fall in house prices.
Or a sharp fall in the yen (see article) might conceivably lead to capital flight and rising bond yields.
Many of the country's retail chains have issued warnings of a sharp fall-off in business following the attacks.
If they stop buying, it could trigger a sharp fall in the dollar and a jump in bond yields.
Still, a sharp fall in the currency can be deadly if a country has borrowed in other people's money.
Likewise, a sharp fall in asset prices might push an economy into recession.
However, a sharp fall in the dollar would be awkward for the Fed.
The decline was the first since 2003, a sharp fall from a month ago and a wide miss on expectations.
The income lost is likely to have been behind a sharp fall in consumer confidence recorded by surveys in January.
Germany's Siemens, an equipment maker, reported a sharp fall in profits last week, which it blamed partly on large telecoms write-offs.
These reforms produced a sharp fall in unemployment just as Europe began to enjoy a productivity spurt from the spread of information technology.
The slowdown, driven by a sharp fall in energy prices, means inflation in the eurozone is now at its lowest level since February 2010.
BBC: Eurozone unemployment at record high as inflation drops
There was a sharp fall in the number of children admitted to hospital with severe asthma after smoke-free legislation was introduced in England, say researchers.
The third main reason for the explosion in pension buy-outs is a sharp fall in the fee that insurers are charging to take on liabilities.
The recently introduced Jobseeker's Allowance, with its tough test of a claimant's availability for work, has also led to a sharp fall in benefit claims.
Ford last week announced it would close two plants in the UK and one in Belgium following a sharp fall in sales in the region.
The online retailer Amazon has announced a sharp fall in profits.
Even in Germany there is a sharp fall in manufacturing activity.
That coincided with a sharp fall in the price of carbon allowances under the EU's flagship emissions trading system and rising European prices for natural gas.
Sports fashion retailer JD Sports has announced a sharp fall in profits due to losses at its newly-acquired Blacks Leisure chain and the cost of moving warehouses.
In this recession there has been a sharp fall for the first time in financial sector employment and a rapid rise in unemployment in London and the Southeast.
True, the U.S. got a jolt in late October when a sharp fall in the Hong Kong stock market sparked a big plunge in the Dow Jones index.
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