Yet, despite some really crummy headlines and an early decline, the tape turned around and the major indices finished in the green.
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As illustrated on the chart, an early morning big decline was triggered by the release of housing and economic data.
This inspires panic--because the financial assets of Americans of all income levels tend to peak when they reach their early 60s and decline thereafter.
The change in strategy comes as the yen's dramatic decline early this year has paused, suggesting the Japanese stock market may be less dependent on the direction of the currency and tied more closely to the strength of an economic recovery in Japan.
The idea was to spot troubled companies at an early stage of their decline, so that creditors had more hope of getting their money back.
In the late 19th and early 20th century a decline in American farm incomes prompted a rise of populism and progressivism that led to attacks on corporate trusts in America under Theodore Roosevelt.
One useful thing to understand is that an elder, even in the early stages of cognitive decline needs to be making plans to allow others to take over the handling of financial matters.
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More direct evidence from studies of experiments with animals and humans, however, suggests that we may have to alter the very concept of what we mean by hearing loss, and that current tests - particularly pure-tone audiometry which measures our ability to perform "pin-drop" hearing - may not be sufficient to pick up the early signs of a decline in hearing function.
But newspaper circulation has enjoyed a slight recovery since the sharp decline of the early 1990s.
Israel, where divisive politicos flex their muscles shows nearly a 30 percent decline from its early 2011 peak.
But no continent has experienced so many stalls, or so early in the process of decline, as Africa.
It may be hard to believe now, but the early 1980s saw a significant decline in the price of crude.
The index closed at 4870 on Thursday, but options investors are hedging the market will go lower early Friday following a general decline in Asian Pacific equities already.
For starters, the Indian government never embarked on an official program to mandate Western clothes in the workplace as the Japanese Emperor Meiji did in the early 1900s, triggering a decline in traditional outfits.
An overaggressive approach by banks to meet Basel III lending requirements early may be behind the decline in countries where lending to small and midsize companies has been slow to come back, according to Mr. Arzeni.
While St Dogmaels Abbey dominated the landscape and economy for more than 400 years, by the early 16th Century it was in decline.
This is cause for some joy, since Q4 and early Q1 sales were in steady decline, and participants are concerned that recent increases may not continue.
Japan's stock market was one of the best-performing in the world early this year, as a decline in the yen fueled sharp gains in exporters of cars, electronics and other products.
Perhaps if the head of some respected scientific organization made such claims, we would chalk up the ridiculous predictions as an early sign of dementia and mercifully decline to report the predictions so as not to embarrass the person as he or she checks out of the real world.
Daily OBV violated its uptrend, line l, in early November, which preceded the recent decline.
Following a 26% decline in the stock since early May, the company trades at 16 times what Thomson IBES records as expected 2006 earnings.
Numbers taken from surveys of consumers (which include a question about religion) show the gradual decline levelling off in the early part of the decade.
America, as I found from my visits in the seventies and early eighties, had suffered a terrible decline of confidence in its role in the world.
Typically an early February high sets the stage for a decline that lasts for most of the month.
Bad fashion calls early last year led to a 5% decline in same-store sales in the fiscal fourth quarter (ended Jan. 31).
For people who married and then divorced, there was a slow build-up of wealth during the early years of marriage and then a steady decline beginning about four years before divorce.
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This drop--coupled with the Dow Jones Industrial Average's decline of more than 100 points early in the day--is the latest evidence of the disconnect between consumer confidence gauges and actual economic data (see " False Notes On Confidence").
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