In the most recent survey, about 39% of investors were considered bullish, which is historically a pretty low figure and would place it in the lower third of August readings over the past 30 years.
The disappearing jobs are concentrated in the lower third of the pay range, though the field work was done before the onset of the credit crisis, so it precedes recent job losses in the housing and financial services industries.
Albany became the first team seeded lower than third to win the title and set a school season record for victories.
Strong winter storms that battered the U.S. in December and January forced FedEx to lower its third quarter earnings guidance.
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Albany became the first team seeded lower than third to win the title, and also set a school season record for victories.
The Albany men became the first team seeded lower than third to win the title and set a school season record with their 24th victory.
Northern Ireland's McDowell needed to win the tournament to win the Race to Dubai but could also have triumphed if he finished second with Kaymer ending up lower than third.
Also late yesterday, Altera said it now expects fourth quarter revenue to be 13% to 16% lower than third quarter levels, compared to a prior expectation for a 7% to 11% decline in revenue.
With AAA ratings still intact at two agencies and carrying a slightly lower rating from a third, Treasuries remained in the lower-risk category.
Like all Android devices, it has fewer, and, in my opinion, generally lower-quality third-party apps than the iPhone.
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Gold will close lower for the third consecutive week this week, unless it rallies sharply higher in late dealings.
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Hewlett Packard (NYSE:HPQ) gave us a nice short entry on Wednesday and then traded lower for a third day Friday morning.
Instead, our incomes are now one-third lower than they would have been had we just matched Australian economic growth since 1984.
It also meant the number of cases for 2007-8 at just over 4, 438 cases was a third lower than it was the year before.
Despite all that, the eastern jobless rate (17.2% in June) is still twice that of the west, productivity is a good third lower, exports remain weak.
While the global commodity markets turned considerably lower during the third quarter of 2011, I do not believe that a sustained drop in commodity prices is likely.
Much depends, however, on what counts as a sustainable profit: without huge cuts in corporate taxes, for example, earnings last year would have been a third lower.
The actual number - 12, 500 - was a third lower than a year ago, but this was the highest proportion of first-timers in the market since April 2005.
After the third lower close, buyers were back in force, driving the stock higher for the next five days in a row, setting new, 52-week highs in the process.
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Charles Clough, chief investment strategist at Merrill Lynch, is looking for 1% to 2% annual growth for the U.S. in the next few years, about a third lower than his more optimistic peers.
At Goldman Sachs, BofA and Citigroup, revenues from fixed income, currency and commodity trading, the main contributors to investment-banking profits over the past decade, were up to a third lower than a year ago.
Borders is working to cut costs and close stores as the second largest U.S. book retailer has not been profitable for four straight years and sales are more than one-third lower than they were five years ago.
Sam Kazman of the Competitive Enterprise Institute points out the latest research from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety shows SUVs (sport utility vehicles) over 4, 500 pounds have a one-third lower death rate than cars below 2, 500 pounds.
Overall, net government borrowing is on course to be about a third lower as a share of GDP than when the coalition came in: it's forecast to be 6.9% of GDP in 2012-13 (excluding the temporary effect of transferring the Royal Mail pension scheme), compared with 10.1% of GDP in 2010-11.
The Blue Jays have finished third or lower in the five-team American League East in 18 of the past 19 seasons.
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Aoyama's task is complicated - the Japanese rider needs to win the race and hope Alvaro Bautista finishes no higher than 15th, Marco Simoncelli no higher than 14th and Hector Barbera third or lower.
Fair added 13 to help Syracuse earn the most lopsided victory in NCAA tournament history for a team seeded third or lower, breaking a mark set about an hour earlier by fifth-seeded VCU against Akron.
Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) is about 2% lower after disappointing with its third quarter earnings results.
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