In short, it's probably not yet time to retire your TV, but if you spend a lot of your time away from the living room and have the bandwidth to spare, the value proposition of a pricey satellite subscription just jumped up a tick.

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But the process is back with a vengeance now, and the recent swift price drop is just a bizarre and temporary tick in the wrong direction.

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But maybe you don't know this: In July and August corporate IT purchases ticked up--just a smidgen, but they did tick up.

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One said she just bought shares in a company whose stock was beginning to tick up.

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The GfK German Consumer Climate Index improved one tick to 4.1 which at that point pushed the euro to a new weekly high just over 1.2740.

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