"In Europe, it's all about the rate of change we're going from horrible data to not-so-bad data, and the market will rally off that, " said Andres Garcia-Amaya, global market strategist at the mutual-fund arm of J.
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The system suffers from "high turnover, inadequately trained personnel, bad data--you name it, " McLellan says.
Bad judgment and shoddy data-processing and programming led more money to go astray.
Update: Megan McArdle has pointed out that the infograph I used to find information on hours-per-week worked has bad data.
On another dismal day for U.S. equities, a combination of bad economic data and riots in debt-ridden Greece have sent markets on a nose dive, as they approach a seventh consecutive week of declines.
Such would be the case especially if that it proves to be as bad as careful analysis of the data predicts - particularly among the combat arms.
If reputable scientists are basing their opinions on bad data then maybe we need a different peer-review process.
This in itself bad enough - our most personal information stored in labs and state data vaults.
Great Company, Bad Stock Michael Saylor, founder of a data warehousing and e-commerce outfit called MicroStrategy, is an impressive guy.
The U.S. dollar index is sharply higher Thursday and hit a fresh five-week high overnight, on perceived safe-haven demand and as the Euro currency sinks on the bad economic data issued for the EU Thursday.
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That's also bad news for consultant businesses like Electronic Data Systems (nyse: EDS - news - people ) and Accenture (nyse: ACN - news - people ), which aren't used to this kind of price pressure.
The app doesn't seem to eat up much space (it occupies 4MB on the device), so it appears to be pulling map data OTA. That's a good thing if you're worried about filling up your G1, but bad if you need info quickly or you're not in a data-gettin' spot.
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Despite all the proposals to make accounting more transparent, pro forma obfuscations are as bad as ever--and cover a shocking number of public companies, according to data compiled by Multex (nasdaq: MLTX - news - people ), a New York financial research company.
As the FICO data proves, the number of people with bad credit has grown significantly post-recession, leaving more people with no idea how to dig themselves out of their credit woes.
There has been some perceived safe-haven demand for the greenback as the Euro currency has sunk on the bad economic data issued for the EU late this week, and on the worries about a currency war.
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The story goes that the older versions have faulty power control software in their radios, forcing base stations to connect to phones at higher powers than they'd normally have to, which in turn leads to base stations running plumb out of power -- and once that happens, you get dropped calls, bad reception, and lousy data rates, among other UMTS ails.
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Both drug and device makers will be watching for key data out of the meeting--and most of the news for both is expected to be bad for companies.
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