The drop came from cutting 514 gross longs and adding 4, 108 gross shorts.
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The drop came from cutting 202 gross longs and adding 3, 204 gross shorts.
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The drop came from cutting 713 gross longs and 237 gross shorts.
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Other London hotels have bigger names to drop, feel more cutting-edge, or have Michelin-starred chefs to tout.
Since these exporters are usually extremely keen to maintain their share in the world's biggest market, they often absorb the effect of a drop in the dollar by cutting their profits rather than raising the price.
This resulted in the death of livestock, small harvests and a big drop in demand for labor, cutting into household incomes.
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In the credit-risk area, the weight attached to mortgages looks likely to drop by 30-50%, cutting the minimum capital requirements of banks specialising in home loans.
This reflects a sharp drop in house prices and sales, cutting tax revenues and pushing the budget deficit close to the stability-pact ceiling this year, and probably over it in 2009.
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Although there has been some cable cutting, in which consumers drop pay TV and either use antennas or run a service like Netflix through an Internet connection, traditional TV distribution has an insanely high rate of market penetration.
But Goldcorp has no plans to react to the steep gold price drop in mid-April by immediately applying cost-cutting measures.
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With the insurance business suffering through one of its periodic price-cutting crusades, revenue also fell 31%, representing the first such drop for the Stamford, Conn. firm in two years.
The fall came from cutting 1, 828 gross longs and adding 161 gross shorts, suggesting the drop came from bulls selling.
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The government also announced earlier this month a new round of stimulus for the auto industry, cutting industrial production taxes to near zero in some cases and causing new car prices to drop by an average of 10 percent.
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Huge contract manufacturers like Flextronics and Solectron are buying more parts directly from suppliers, cutting out distributors, while prices for chips (half of Arrow's total sales) drop 30% annually.
Countries that managed to grow strongly in the past while cutting budget deficits were often aided by a falling exchange rate or were rewarded by a big drop in borrowing costs.
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