The iShares Italy ETF has been more resilient, remaining relatively flat in 2013, but falling hard over the past few days.
Although it expected to benefit from falling hard disk prices as suppliers recovered from last year's Thai floods, it warned that the savings would be offset by higher memory and display costs.
"When we met, although we knew we were falling hard and fast for one another, we continued to say, 'I'm not looking for anyone right now, but we can be friends and see where it goes!'"
With the U.S. major stock market indexes falling hard since early May, most of the large institutional investors, spooked by the slowdown in the economic recovery, have refocused their sights toward markets where growth has defied gravity: the emerging countries, specifically Brazil, Chile, Hong Kong, Peru, Uruguay and Singapore.
At least 33 people, including children, were injured by collapsed walls and falling debris in the hard-hit North Cotabato villages of Kimadzil and Kibugtongan, said Hermes Daquipa, a Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology official who joined a government team that surveyed the hilly villages.
But be on the look out for a hard shuffle and falling cards.
It had a big gap down, formed a wedge, and then it came down hard again, falling 98 cents to 26.51 on Monday.
For tech giants that have found hard luck and falling shares, it may be time to question whether lower prospective takeover prices justify a recent flurry of deal rumors.
The iShares Russell 2000 Index Fund ( IWM) was hit hard on Wednesday, falling by more than 3%.
Is it so hard to understand that falling prices for some of us means falling incomes for others?
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With all this free trade and trade barriers falling, it's really hard for an individual like me with a global-scope patent to file all over the world and get patent protection everywhere, and having to go overseas to fight infringement.
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They are glad that shells are no longer falling on them, but life remains hard.
However, the early goal was a huge blow to what is clearly still a side with brittle confidence and whilst they battled hard they never recovered from falling behind.
Many of Cyprus's foreign bank depositors are Russian, and Russian shares were hit hard, with the RTS Index falling 2.8%.
The "factory economies" of China and other parts of Asia will be hit particularly hard from the double whammy of falling demand for their exports and lower capital inflows.
Yes, big corporate money likes a good old hard landing, the sky is falling, the housing bubble is popping like a Fourth of July gone terribly wrong, and manufacturing fleeing to build in Alabama story.
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The cost of SSDs is still higher than that of hard disks, but those costs are falling fast.
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The hard fact of life is that even after falling 15.53% against the U.S. dollar this year the euro is still overvalued.
It's hard to believe that less than two weeks ago bombs were falling on Beirut.
The subindex of owners reporting hard-to-fill job openings held steady at 15% after falling 5 points in June.
With projected federal spending topping 34 percent of GDP and the known politically acceptable levels of federal tax revenues falling below 20 percent of GDP, we are between the proverbial rock and a hard place.
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But for those who get the grades they need, celebration will be uppermost in their minds - and for others falling short of the minimum needed for that coveted college or university place then the hard work begins.
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If, on the other hand, you think that the IRS is falling down on the job and not picking on somebody it should, it can be hard to get standing.
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Folks who were working hard and honestly every day to meet their responsibilities were running in place or falling behind while high-flying financial speculators who were cutting corners were rewarded with lavish bonuses and benefits.
Dell faces a barrage of competition from players like HP, Lexmark and Samsung that will make it hard for Dell to gain significant share in printers or displays to offset the impact of falling hardware prices.
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