Sure, the stock of an acquiring company may go down a little bit but not nearly as much as it would if the company made massive capital investments.

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If you want to go down the scale a bit, you can get some comparative bargains among smallish U.S. producers.

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The panel seemed to go on a bit long and slowed down the event somewhat.

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Slow down a little bit on that, and go back and build the base of the house.

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If you want things to feel just a bit more down to earth, go with Call of Duty.

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And you may have blips where maybe this month they will go up a little bit and next month they will drop a little bit, but the general trend is for it to go down.

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Also a bit like share prices, tax revenue can go up as as well as down.

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So what that meant was even though you had seen your 401(k) go down, or maybe you're a small business owner and you are tightening your belt, you had a little bit of extra money to cushion the blow.

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