According to the Commerce Department, foreign direct investment in the U.S. did indeed drop for a period after 2001, but has generally been on the rise since 2003, increasing 67% in 2006.
As for defense spending despite the big (annualized) Q4 drop from the prior period, 2012 defense spending was higher than 2008.
The bearish percentage has seen a 12% drop during the same period.
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That's not only more than a 50 percent drop from last quarter, but a 27 percent drop from the same period last year.
Perhaps equally advantageous for BlackBerry is that Apple has seen both its ad awareness and purchase intent numbers for the iPhone drop during the same period.
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Auditors provide reports that document their 10-Q reviews for Goldman Sachs (PwC) and Morgan Stanley (Deloitte), two firms that did not fail but did receive bailouts and whose share price did drop during the crisis period.
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As part of the review's consultation period, a drop-in information session is being held at Guernsey Aero Club on Wednesday between 16:00 and 19:00 BST.
That, of course, coincides with a sharp drop in yields over the same period.
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Cwmbran Stadium had 31% fewer visitors in 2012 compared to 2008, while Pontypool Active Living Centre saw a drop of 26% over the same period.
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Meanwhile, they say physical demand from the key gold-buying region of Asia is likely to pick up further, particularly considering the price drop came ahead of a key holiday period in Asia.
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With the launch of its Rodeon chips, AMD witnessed a considerable rise in its market share in discrete notebook graphics, registering an increase in share from 38% in 2007 to 48% in 2011, whereas Nvidia witnessed an equivalent drop in its share during the same period.
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The carrier reported a 5.6% drop in earnings for the April to December period to 140.6bn yen.
The researchers could not credit the ban with a drop in overall gun violence over the same period.
In the six months to the end of September, Singapore Airlines saw its net profits drop by 88% compared with the same period last year.
In fact, the ad pricing suffered 4% drop in the fourth quarter compared to same period a year ago due to expansion in emerging markets.
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While operating profit for the Display Panel segment registered an on-year increase, the Semiconductor Business saw profits drop by 38 percent compared with the same period last year, despite outperforming the previous quarter.
Police said there had been a 30% drop in serious injury collisions compared with the same period last year.
Were this to occur, more physicians might decide to drop out of Medicare, creating a longer waiting period for patients needing to see a doctor.
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In fact, ad pricing suffered a 4% drop in Q4 2012, compared to the same period a year ago due to its expansion in emerging markets.
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RevPAR, as the metric is known, was up just 1.7% in Las Vegas, but that came despite a 1.5% drop in hotel occupancy during the October-December period.
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Average earnings grew by 5.8% in the period from January to March, compared to 6.0% over the December to February period, as millennium bonuses began to drop out of the figures.
The unit, which breaks out its results and has received investments from Microsoft and, more recently, Pearson, recorded a 12.6% drop in sales for the nine-week holiday period from a year ago.
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Businesses in Belfast have reported a drop in trade in the normally busy pre-Christmas period.
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"Pensions linked to CPI will be lower over a period of time - some estimates put the drop as high as 25%", said Dawid Konotey-Ahulu of Mallowstreet.
Despite Leicester's dominance, they kicked only four penalties, and the Welsh team finally got on the scoreboard just before the break when a sustained period of pressure ended with Williams's drop-goal.
IPOdesktop.com President Francis Gaskins said that, over time, if Facebook doesn't deliver good earnings and other positive growth measures, institutional buying may drop off, especially once the company's lockup period expires and even more shares come into the market.
In that period, Wal-Mart saw its Buzz score drop 27 points among Republicans and 34 points among Democrats.
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Germany reported on Monday a 10% drop in new-vehicle sales in February compared with the same period a year earlier.
Sivak said that the 14 percent drop in his index swamps the four percent increase in drivers over the period.
The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index has fallen nearly 17% over the past year, compared with a nearly 13% drop in the broader Dow Jones Asia-Pacific index over the same period.
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