The euro, in particular, is now worth about a quarter more in dollar terms than it was at its low in 2000.
In fact, that central bank selling near the lows drove gold down to levels it may not otherwise have seen at its low in 2001.
Dollar cost averaging gradually adds to or removes from an investment, ensuring that you never purchase your full position at a high or sell it at its low.
Residential construction was 6.3% of GDP at its recent peak in the fourth quarter of 2005, but fell to 2.4% at its low in the first quarter of 2010.
"If you had a crystal ball and could know when the market is at its low, that would be the perfect time to buy and get the profits, " Ball said.
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Behind the recent decline is the fact that, even at its low PE ratio, Apple has been a momentum stock, with professional and amateur investors alike jumping aboard in part because they were afraid to miss out on the profits being made.
Finally, the CBOE Market Volatility Index confirmed the peak at its double low in the 30-area, as it did a round-trip back below a few key long-term moving averages and the 20-Level.
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By mid-week, the Dow Jones Industrial Average had gained 13% from its low at the end of August, leaving it only 9% below its July peak.
It is trading at decade low valuations and recently kissed its low price set way back in March 2009.
The bank left the base rate at its all-time low of 0.5% earlier this month, but two of the nine members of its monetary-policy committee backed a quarter-point rise, according to minutes published this week.
The company is a huge beneficiary of globalisation: able not only to source its products at low cost in Asia but to sell the finished goods there as well (there was a near-riot in Beijing when customers could not buy the latest iPhone).
The huge market size and Amazon pricing its devices at low margins which most likely will appease the growing Chinese middle class leads us to expect that the devices will be well received and likely provide substantial upside to e-books and other content sales as well.
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Among those taking part was Singapore, at a time when its relations with Malaysia were at a low ebb.
The loan default rate was steady at 21 bps in February, not far from its near record low of 17 bps at yearend and well inside the historical average of 3.5%.
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He started buying last spring when the company was trading at around its 52-week low.
But Zwelling believes that these customers are getting its service at an outrageously low price.
The retailer keeps its markups low at around 15%, thus offering good quality products at compelling prices.
The company said it expects full-year results to come in at the low end of its prior projections.
Mr Espiritu had a deft touch in the bond markets: last year, the country's nimble fund-raising efforts allowed it to make good its budget shortfall at impressively low interest rates.
Barrow, 60, is sticking to the formula he has used for nearly four decades: Pay some attention to the prospects for a company, just as a growth manager would, but don't buy unless it is trading at a low multiple of its earnings or book value.
The Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) kept interest rates at the record-low level of 0.5% at its meeting in June.
This means it finishes the quarter 10% higher than its level at the beginning of the year and more than double its low point during the financial crisis.
Russian inflation is at or near its post-Soviet low, and interest rates are also near post-Soviet lows.
Because the inhabitants of Kibera are among Nairobi's poorest, the goods in its markets are sold at very low price points.
The COMP slumped below its 80-week moving average for the first time since mid-2006, but remains above possible support from the site of its August 2007 low at 2, 386.
Analysts said the phone could help Nokia regain its edge against Samsung at the low end and get a piece of India's fast-growing market of consumers trading up from basic phones.
Mr. Loughner spent his adolescence just north of Tucson, in a community where a flat carpet of strip malls and low subdivisions dissolves at its fringes into dirt roads and rolling, saguaro-spiked desert.
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Since then, the 30-share Sensex has gained nearly 10% from its 2013 closing low, to end Tuesday at 20160.82, just 4% short of its all-time high.
As part of its smart-grid activities, aimed at achieving a low-carbon society through efficient energy use, TMC is conducting trials in Japan of its Toyota Smart Center pilot program, which plans to link people, automobiles and homes for integrated control of energy consumption.
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