The figure was much lower than the fall to 1.6% that analysts had expected.
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To get under 2:04 would take a great effort and to fall lower is possible.
How much lower can yields fall while globally central banks print money at 5% to 10% annual rates and economies grow at 2% rates?
Yield on U.S. debt is just below 2% for the 10 year and likely to fall lower once the Fed starts buying long dated bonds to flatten out the curve.
Lower costs will fall on the Department for Work and Pensions, which will need to adapt its systems to cope with changes to pension entitlements, and the Ministry of Justice, which will need to alter the courts' "FamilyMan" IT system.
But some think German yields could fall still lower, pushing prices higher and generating gains for bondholders.
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Up to 4cm (1.6in) could fall on lower ground, with more than 10cm (4in) possible on hills.
The Anglo-Dutch company blamed the fall on lower oil and gas prices.
We simply cannot wait any longer, nor can we let this race fall any lower and still hope to win in November.
When sugar prices increase, so does next year's crop, leading to over-supply, and lower prices, a fall in production, and so on.
Wage stickiness could stop inflation falling much below 2%, and could justify the expectation of many economists that short-term interest rates will fall no lower than 2.75%.
Whyman reckons that unit growth will slow from 45% last year to 30% by the end of this year, and revenue growth could be even lower as price points fall.
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CoStar Group ( CSGP), a provider of information and marketing services to commercial real estate professionals in the United States as well as the United Kingdom, has seen consensus estimates fall meaningfully lower for both 2013 and 2014 following a rare earnings miss on February 27.
Such investments fall in the lower right quadrant of high volatility and low return.
But all too often, purchasers fail to negotiate lower prices when commodity prices fall again.
When investors realise that future profits growth will be lower, share prices may fall further.
Interest rates have never been lower and are slated to fall another 25 basis points in the next two months.
Less than nine minutes later, the venerable index was more than 100 points lower and in a free-fall.
In its most recent quarterly release, Philip Morris International saw its profits fall 6% on lower volume sales.
Car manufacturers have seen sales of their smaller, mass-market models fall off, with lower income buyers unable to afford new cars in the economic downturn.
But because the banking system is distressed, and because house prices continue to fall, even these lower rates are not driving investment into the country the way they did before.
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Hussman recently noted that of the four pieces of his recession indicator, the only one not yet signaling a recession was the ISM Purchasing Managers Index, which needs to fall to 54 or lower.
Of course the so called "automatic stabilisers" - spending which rises in a recession as benefits are paid to those out of work and tax receipts fall as companies make lower profits - must be allowed to operate.
The fall was largely due to lower petrol prices which reversed the price increases seen in September.
Those lower earnings projects cause the stock to fall, but the company has since returned to growing its earnings.
It also warned that revenue for the fiscal third quarter could come in slightly lower than analyst expectations and could even fall for the first time since 2003.
This creates a mismatch between future output (which will increase as a result of higher investment) and future spending (which will fall as a result of lower saving today).
Even with those cases pending, Windsor said last fall -- when the lower court decided in her favor, three years after Spyer's death -- that she felt she could finally breathe and celebrate.
The more Obama fills newspaper headlines with allegations that Israel is responsible for everything from US combat deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan to Iran's nuclear program, the lower those numbers can be expected to fall.
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