Historically, the annual income growth for blue chippers has benefited everyone--high, middle or lower first-round picks--pretty equally.
We said that higher fourth quarter 2012 incomes had to make for lower first quarter 2013 incomes.
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Declining clicks and missed earnings have prompted many analysts to lower their first-quarter estimates by 12 cents a share on average.
Either the customer must pay more by way of monthly premiums or must accept that the eventual payout will be significantly lower than first thought.
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Average daily trading volume in May alone was 7% lower than the first quarter in commodities and 14% lower in credit.
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Housing-market transactions in the first quarter of this year were 35% lower than in the first three months of 2004.
Oil giant BP saw profits edge lower in the first three months of the year.
Gold, lead and zinc production was also lower in the first-quarter compared to the same period last year.
The potential costs to banks of a blow-up in the periphery may then be lower than they first appear.
Stocks finished the week lower for the first time in five weeks.
Mr Greenspan's successor is likely to have a lower profile at first.
China stocks fell today amid lower than expected first-quarter GDP growth.
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The stakes are lower for the first New York revival of Tony Kushner's "Angels in America, " which opens Off Broadway at Signature Theatre Company's Peter Norton Space on Oct. 28.
First Solar, an industry bellwether, saw flat revenues and lower earnings during the first quarter of 2011.
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Mr Bush appointed plenty of conservative judges to lower courts during his first term.
Thus, high-earners would still enjoy the benefits of lower rates on their first few hundred thousand dollars of income.
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First, lower rates will prompt homeowners to refinance, increasing prepayment speeds and lowering the value of the underlying bonds.
Therefore, when the mortgage rate falls again, refinancing and prepayment would be much lower compared to the first time.
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Its directors revealed the true state of affairs when they were trying to fend off Ferrovial's first, lower bid.
On the Republican side, McCain tried to lower expectations for his first-quarter fundraising.
However, the division has posted lower revenues in the first half of 2012 compared to the same period in 2011.
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That was materially less grim than the 60% reporting lower demand in the first quarter of 2009 than in 2008.
Half of the 3, 776 banks that pay dividends paid lower dividends in the first quarter, which is one way to preserve capital.
Suning is among a number of big Chinese retailers reporting sharply lower profits in the first half of 2013 from a year earlier.
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Eight (8) million lost their jobs in the recession, four million are still not re-employed (employment is four million lower than in the first quarter of 2008 when the recession began).
During the first three years of the Obama administration, the number of final rules reviewed by OIRA and issued by executive agencies was actually lower than during the first three years of the Bush administration.
In the 1992 general election, the Tories' share of the vote was only 1.6 percentage points lower than in their first victory in 1979, almost as big as in 1983 and 1987 and a full eight percentage points ahead of Labour.
With temperatures lower than in the first session and light rain falling, there was little action for the opening part of the second 90-minute session as the pit crews switched their attention to the weather and weighed up swapping dry-weather slick tyres for intermediates.
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