Karimzad asserts that much of the year-to-date game sales decline at the retailer is due to a 20%-plus drop in the number of new games issued by video-game publishers.
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Whistler-Blackcomb is a snow enthusiast's dream, with some of the most sought-after powder in skiing and snowboarding, plus the highest vertical drop of any resort on the continent.
If so, share prices would almost certainly fall, too: a two-point increase in interest rates plus a 20% drop in share prices would have roughly the same dampening effect.
The real Fed Funds rate averaged 3%-plus, leaving gold to drop three-quarters of its real dollar value inside 20 years, as the real value of cash-on-deposit doubled.
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As part of the merger, Vivendi agreed to drop a lawsuit filed by its Canal Plus division accusing NDS of hacking Canal Plus' security codes and distributing them in Italy.
The drop comes amid a rare industry slump, plus MGM's 26% slide in first-quarter profits, to 42 cents a share.
The Empire State survey of manufacturing conditions on June 15 reported a big drop to minus 7.8 from a plus 11.9 the prior month.
Given their huge stockpile of national savings from the oil boom years, plus plenty of continued income despite the drop in oil prices, Kuwaitis can probably afford to go on bickering anyway.
Still, the surprisingly high activity plus a strong day for stocks, led to a slight drop in demand for U.S. Treasuries.
In stress test results released last Thursday, Citigroup and Fifth Third Bancorp were projected by the Fed to have Tier 1 common equity ratios in excess of 8.0% in a stressed economic scenario of a deep recession, 12%-plus unemployment, a 20% slump in housing prices, and a 52% drop in U.S. stock markets.
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In a statement last week, the IRS blamed a decline in some performance measures, including a drop in audit coverage and collections, on an 8% decline in its workforce since 2010, plus a doubling of the staff it has assigned to fight identity theft refund fraud.
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