But the June drop suggests that absent government stimulus money, the American consumer really can't save much more and that the rise in savings rates might be less a sign of a new thriftiness than it is a short-term tendency to hoard anything extra that comes in.
From a technical perspective, this recent USD rally has not quite managed to recover 61.8% of the drop from June 7th and not even close to 50% of the drop since May 25th.
Cash accounted for 24.3% of portfolios, a 1.3 percentage point drop from June.
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U.S. goods and services exported fell 2.0%, the biggest drop since June 2004.
Individual investors allocated 51.7% of their portfolios to stocks and stock funds last month, a 1.2 percentage point drop from June.
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After a sharp drop in June, Build-A-Bear has crept 15% higher since July and now moves along its upward sloping 50-day moving average.
The National Federation of Independent Business's small-business optimism index dropped 0.2 point to 91.2 last month following a steep 3-point drop in June.
Gallup's Balkan Monitor, for example, released a survey in June that showed a drop in those wanting to emigrate in every state in the west Balkans.
McShane notes that flat panel TV prices fell 21.1% on a year-over-year basis in July, worse than the 14.8% drop in June and a 13.6% decline in May.
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Bhar pointed out that gold climbed steadily in the aftermath of a report showing U.S. consumer spending fell 0.2% in June, the first drop in almost two years.
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By 11 am, these Polly-Anna expectations had already been falsified, as a new Commerce Department report confirmed a sharp drop in June 2011 US factory orders, and stock market indices and bond yields plunged again.
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However, most analysts reckon that inflation will drop sharply in June, opening the way for a rate cut this summer.
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.
Spain's IBEX 35 index rose 1.3% as jobless claims in the country fell 2.1% in June, the third consecutive monthly drop.
The chemical company argues that Apollo persuaded Huntsman to drop out of a June 2007 takeover deal with the Holland-based Basell by falsely indicating it would buy Huntsman at a better price, when in fact Apollo was acting out a broader plan to mar the transaction process so badly that it would compel Huntsman to come to Hexicon at a lower price.
Mr Allex appeared in a video in June 2010, appealing to France to drop its support for the Somali government.
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Fox's contract is up at Bloomfield Road on 30 June and he has now opted to drop down a division on a free transfer.
Producer-price inflation slowed to 1.5% in the year to July from 2.5% in June, led by the largest monthly drop in energy prices in 12 years.
These stocks did drop into the middle of June but have since rallied sharply, and some rare earth minerals recently doubled in price amid reports of apparent hoarding.
U.S. housing starts during July ran at a 604, 000 pace, which is admittedly 4, 000 above forecast, but represents a 1.5% drop from a downwardly revised June reading of 613, 000 when optimists claimed the housing recovery might be underway.
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On the Democratic side, however, the Buzz score continued to drop, hitting -25 on June 23.
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"June's industrial figures suggest that the drop in GDP in the second quarter is likely to be revised to a slightly smaller fall, " said Samuel Tombs, an analyst at Capital Economics research group.
Considering the drop in new export orders in June to 47.5 from 50.4 and 52.2, Chang now thinks that domestic orders likely improved last month, suggesting more demand from consumers and therefore local corporates tied to the domestic economy.
Between last June and this June we're seeing about a 15 percent drop in prices.
Its June results show a stunning 12.2 percent drop in their view on the economic outlook and their plans for hiring.
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Anti-bailout parties made massive gains in Greece's May 6 and June 17 elections, with Greeks furious at the drop in living standards by measures that have left the country struggling through a fifth year of recession and sent unemployment spiraling to above 22 percent.
E-Trade, the poster child of the once-glittering online brokers, suffered a 70% drop in customer sign-ups in the June quarter from a year ago.
Figures for April to June showed a 0.4% fall, following a drop of 0.2% in the first quarter.
Its call comes after its latest survey of confidence among the UK's small firms reported a big drop in sentiment during the three months to 30 June.
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