Profits last year had not fully recovered from their sharp drop in 1996 (see chart, opposite).
In both the early 1980s and the early 1990s, such gloom heralded a big drop in manufacturing output (see chart).
The weekly chart shows the sharp drop in BZF early in 2012 before it developed a trading range, lines a and b.
Meanwhile, productivity has surged by 5% over the past year, resulting in a sharp drop in unit labour costs (see chart).
LVMH, which owns a portfolio of brands, including Louis Vuitton and Christian Dior, has suffered because of the drop in the Japanese tourist trade (see chart).
Those qualities become irrelevant in the midst of a broad selloff, like the one that took gold prices down more than 13% over two trading days April 12 and 15 (see the latest big drop in the year-to-date chart below).
FORBES: Playing Gold After The Plunge: Be Careful With The Miners
One look at a price chart of FDO and you can see a big drop at the start of 2013.
Chart Analysis : The weekly chart of the SPDR Gold Trust ( GLD) shows that the drop in September tested the uptrend from the early 2011 lows, line a.
To cancel out that 70% drop, shares will have to rise 233% from their lowest point (see chart).
This was the first quarterly drop in real GDP in three-and-a-half years (see first chart below).
WHITEHOUSE: Advance Estimate of GDP for the Fourth Quarter of 2012
The two new entries in the box office chart saw last weekend's number one, the horror movie Saw IV, drop to number three.
The chart of the SPDR Barclays Capital High Yield Bond ETF ( JNK) shows the drop through weekly support from the fall of 2010 (line e).
It looks like something serious, considering that reports about it in October set off a sustained share price drop and at least three downgrades on the shares, marring what had been a lovely stock chart.
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