The Nikkei 225 Index closed the year on December 30 at JPY 10, 228.92, below its closing a year before.
This was the equivalent of "1.5 billion pints lost" or "one major brewery closing every year", he told MPs.
Time Warner Cable's VoIP roster grew by some 13% last quarter, closing the year with 1.86 million lines.
The deal went through in the summer of 2007, closing later that year when News Corp.
The Financial Select Sector SPDR ETF is down nearly 25% on the year closing down 1% today.
The Nasdaq also recorded a new five-year closing low on Tuesday.
Among the biggest losers, Shenzhen-traded Shandong Sun Paper sank to a three-year closing low of 5.03 yuan on Thursday, before edging up 0.01 yuan on Friday.
Then, like a middle-income couple with young children, the league decided Manhattan was too crowded and too expensive, and it spent the past year closing in on a deal for a stadium in Queens in an area filled with soccer-crazed immigrants that would be a cheap, 20-minute train ride from Manhattan.
Malaysian vehicle sales this year are expected to reach 350, 000, up 21% from last year and closing in on 1997's 404, 869.
Though the Obama Administration failed to meet its top priority executive order of closing Guantanamo within one year, it continues to stress closure.
The company was closing out a banner year that saw profits more than double from 1994, on top of a 44% im-provement over 1993.
General Motors laid out a massive restructuring plan Monday that will include cutting 21, 000 U.S. factory jobs by next year and closing its Pontiac brand.
Among the older pupils, boys are still narrowly ahead in science, but the gap is closing and among 9 year olds there is no gender difference.
The acquisition will be on a cash-free, debt-free basis and is expected to be significantly accretive to ARRIS' Non-GAAP earnings starting in the first full year after closing.
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The annual report by the Public Lending Right (PLR), who oversee payments to authors for the loan of their books, also revealed that library lending had dropped by around 4% in 2012, with 200 branches closing over the past year.
Kaspersky is a distant third, but has been closing in over its 15 year history.
The blue-chip benchmark retreated in previous sessions amid weak job-market and manufacturing data, closing at a current-year low on Monday.
In the closing minutes of the trading year, Capital One had a massive surge while my precious Turkcell flat lined.
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The official closing ceremony of the International Year of Biodiversity (IYB) will take place in Kanazawa, Japan on 18 and 19 December.
Community health chiefs in Cornwall will be questioned about a hospital's future after the closing of inpatient beds last year, an MP says.
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In aggregate, that leadership team will be involved in 6-8 biotechs in Boston within a year of the closing of the acquisition by Celgene.
The political thriller will be the closing night film at this year's Toronto Film Festival, where 360 and The Deep Blue Sea will also be screened.
The year is also closing with another notable record: the longest period in modern aviation without a single fatal airliner accident, according to Harro Ranter, president of the Aviation Safety Network, a nonprofit organization that tracks accidents and incidents.
Seagate expects these transactions and agreements to be meaningfully accretive to non-GAAP diluted earnings per share and cash flow within the first full year following the closing, and Seagate does not expect any material restructuring costs in connection with them.
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Miles Platting, Broadway, Levenshulme and Withington pools could shut this year, with Chorlton closing in 2015.
Since the gap between the US and Russia is closing at around 2% a year, this is a 75 year lag.
The 2-1 favourite tried to reel in Bindaree in the closing stages but the nine-year-old had enough stamina to stay on.
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Redundancies are likely from the beginning of July, with the whole of the Roborough site closing by the end of the year.
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