At least 8 hedge funds run by billionaires are flat or down so far this year.
We also believe that global demand is likely to be flat to down in 2012.
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When the pan is very hot, use tongs to lower in each scallop, flat side down.
The deep basic is information tech capital spending looks flat to down next year.
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Monster also said it expects bookings to be flat to down 10% from the year ago quarter.
That's because profits are expected to be flat or down in the future.
While he is still optimistic about 2003, he concedes that housing starts may be flat or down next year.
Sales of crossover vehicles grew about 23% last year, according to the NADA, and all other segments were either flat or down.
The current guidance by vendors points to flat to down third-quarter growth.
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On a comparable pro forma basis, sales might be flat or down.
The company now expects net-revenue yields will be flat to down slightly for the year, excluding the impact of the Costa Concordia incident.
Keith notes that while the Consumer Electronics Association sees industry growth this year of 5.6%, Best Buy sees same store sales flat to down 3%.
Revenue and earnings for consumer and merchant banking in the EMEA region were flat to down in the first half of this year, while Asia grew.
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Morgan Stanley estimates that nonpurpose loans have been rising "at a double-digit clip" for the past four or five years while margin loans have been flat or down.
Microchip Technology this afternoon warned that revenue for the fiscal third quarter ending in December will be flat to down 7% from FY Q2, due to continued soft macroeconomic conditions.
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Environmental technologies segment sales projected flat to down slightly.
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Sanofi, which has been one of the best-performing drug stocks over the past year, is getting hit today because the company said that earnings in 2013 will be somewhere between flat and down 5%.
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In an interview with Forbes this morning, Seagate CEO Steve Luczo said the company is expecting the total addressable market for the disk-drive sector in the June quarter to be flat to down slightly from the March period, which he says is typical for the period.
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You know, even the amount of money that's spent on the Climate Change Research Program, which is spread across several agencies, is down a bit this year, basically flat, but down a bit.
Revenue from audio products is down 13% and sales of video gear and TV sets are flat, pulling down overall profit margins--and total profits--by more than half in the past two years.
The supply of gold coming out of the ground is flat or slightly down year-over-year.
On a constant currency basis, revenues were flat sequentially and down 9.7% year-over-year.
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Japan's Nikkei Stock Average traded nearly flat, ending down 0.1% at 8160.01, its lowest closing level in nearly 32 months.
One was in the second row and the other four bodies were found "laying down flat in the cargo area, " Babeu said.
The law firm was turned down flat by the government's trademark bureau.
However, the increased competition in the market has lead to a near term over-supply situation, pushing the spot market price of the flat rolled products down.
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