In all likelihood it was technically based selling that triggered sell stops to exacerbate the decline.
Analysts and traders say the slide may not be over yet due to potential for further momentum-based selling.
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Overture's business is based on selling shopping information, unlike Google's more general variety of search.
"Our whole business is based on selling things that are unpopular, " says the 49-year-old founder and sole owner of Rivendell Bicycle Works.
But his appraisal was based on selling the jewels retail, where gems can fetch a lot more than when sold at auction under financial duress.
The company has built an efficient operation that is based on selling nicely functional simulation tools through a balanced sales channel of direct and VAR partners.
One of the biggest concern for First Solar is the fact that most of its sales contracts for the year 2011 are based on selling prices which can be revised every quarter.
In a real sense, it is this patent that Dublin-based Elan is selling to King.
By 2007, Unilever reorganized Dove and went back to selling based on features, segments, and new products.
Responsible Travel, a UK-based travel agency selling sustainable holiday packages, reports a 23 percent increase in customers buying trips to Malaysia from 2009 to 2010.
Time and again, traders work themselves into a frenzy, buying or selling based on whether the world's largest retailer hit its latest comparable-store sales forecast.
For those selling short based on this trigger, a stop is placed above the doji or most recent high.
Handling such chores has been a strong suit for Research in Motion's BlackBerry and rivals selling devices based on Windows Mobile.
He also has an Illinois connection: He turned around Chicago-based Bank One before selling it four years ago to JPMorgan Chase.
Drug firms like Pfizer, GlaxoSmithKline and Novartis have yet to realize a new generation of big-selling medicines based on gene research.
Byrne has filed suit against Gradient and Rocker Partners for colluding in a short-selling scheme based on what he claims was fraudulent research.
Our relationship goes back more than a decade, when Chip was selling cloud based computing services to companies that were just getting dial-up internet connections.
It starts with the idea that the real genius at Apple has been its ability to generate huge profits from selling products based on flash memory chips.
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DuPont said it would now ask the judge who presided over the seven-week trial to require the South Korean company to stop selling products based on its trade secrets.
The problem with flops is that they scare studios away from risky films and the movie-viewing public ends up with an endless procession of sequels and films based on best-selling young adult books.
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The real question: will Nokia continue to focus on selling phones based on its proprietary Symbian and MeeGo operating systems, or will they shift directions and adopt Google (GOOG) Android or even Microsoft (MSFT) Windows Phone 7.
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China Mobile's largest rival, China Unicom, will be able to rid itself of a cumbersome, overlapping network using the CDMA standard, which is incompatible with its more popular GSM-based network, by selling it to the country's fixed-line operator, China Telecom.
Along with the racy Maxim shoot, she was recently lavishly feted with vodka and medals from Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, attended a space rocket launch in Kazakhstan, is an advisor to a Moscow-based bank and is selling action figures in her femme fatale likeness.
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Removal of WebOS from the playing field after HP yesterday it will stop selling WebOS-based phones and tablets.
The drama is based on the best-selling memoirs of the late Jennifer Worth.
They soon discovered the Blue Zones program, based on the best-selling book The Blue Zones, written by Dan Buettner.
The film will be based on the recent best selling book Team Of Rivals, by historian Doris Kearns Goodwin.
Europe, where De Beers's Central Selling Organisation is based, could do far more.
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