Luxury struggled too, with Saks' sales down 11% and Neiman Marcus falling almost 16%.
With the Miami economy a shambles, South Beach rents have been falling almost as quickly as purchase prices.
After falling almost 170 pips from the high, the common currency has found some footing slightly over the 1.2800 level.
The recovery won't match the boom-bust follies of 1987-92, when rents shot up 40-60% in a year and five years later were falling almost as fast.
In anticipation of the possibility of a hung parliament, sterling has been losing ground in the past week against the dollar and the Japanese yen, falling almost 2% against both currencies.
And now, just as hunting is falling almost totally out of fashion here in the US (and especially in New York City), I find myself getting more intrigued with the sport.
Violent crime may still be appallingly high, but it has been falling in almost all categories.
It felt almost like it was falling out of our hands before David Beckham came to our rescue with his late free-kick.
These layers acted like the anti-reflective coatings on spectacle lenses and caused almost all the sunlight falling on the device to be absorbed.
Japanese retail sales have been falling for almost four years.
The stock has been falling for almost a year, but a downwardly revised production outlook in May exacerbated the rout, feeding the rumor mill and taking down former CEO Richard Whiting.
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The Lakers led almost throughout, only briefly falling behind by two points in the second quarter.
OPEC's desire to force the oil price up is almost certainly linked to the falling dollar.
The number of people out of work in the UK has been falling steadily for almost a year, despite concerns over the economy's sluggish growth.
To the west were the massive cliffs of Garbh Eilean, falling several hundred feet almost sheer to the sea.
Most banks in this market carry large positions, and the market, as well as falling sharply, has almost dried up: bids on many issues are almost impossible to come by.
The result is a messy masterpiece, a portrait of turbulent transition, that constantly risks falling on its face but almost never does.
The ways of this bear market (a market characterised by falling prices) mightier than almost any in living memory, are difficult and paradoxical.
Underpinning this thesis is a belief that interest rates will march higher over the next decade, reversing an almost 30-year period of generally falling rates.
Vandalism in the UK is falling at a quicker rate than almost any other type of crime, according to official figures.
Stocks closed lower Friday, breaking a four-day winning streak, although the Dow almost made it back to positive territory after falling quite a bit in early trading.
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By dessert, he was almost sprawled across the table and she was practically falling off her chair.
Like falling dominoes, this in turn invalidates almost all anti-exploit mechanisms that Microsoft has built into their OS over the past decade, which then topples over and turns an entire class of bugs deemed un-exploitable on non-virtualized systems into potential vulnerabilities on virtualized systems.
The UK has escaped the worst of the world economic slowdown which is affecting the United States, Japan and much of the eurozone, but many economists warn that government tax revenues are falling fast, and the Chancellor will almost certainly have to revise his over-optimistic economic forecast.
At the giant China import-export fair in Guangzhou this week almost everyone I spoke to said orders from Europe are falling and that's hurting China's exporters.
Trouble is, this is the first time anything had been done, even though Leong Hin's stock had been exhibiting suspicious trading behavior for more than a year and a half--rising and falling over roughly six-month cycles by almost identical amounts, regardless of movements in the local market and with little news from the company.
Such speculators bet on a stock's price falling, and a bid by the founder is almost a guarantee that it won't.
Almost half were suicides and many were as a result of falling from high buildings, often while trying to escape their employers.
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In China, worries are growing about weakening export demand (growth in export volumes has fallen by almost half over the past year to 11%) and falling property prices, which seem to play a role similar to equity prices elsewhere.
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