Leigh Caldwell points out that anyone in the bottom 20% has more wealth than the bottom 20% combined, since they all have negative wealth, and no individual negative number in a group can be less than the sum of a whole group of negative numbers.
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For 2009, it's easy to project negative numbers for GDP of 2%-3% because the consumer overspent so much these past five years.
The negative numbers that we see recently indicate more easing than tightening.
Yet the picture is more mixed than these negative numbers might suggest.
And what, too, to make of the square roots of negative numbers?
Certainly I would expect some fairly negative economic numbers over the next few months that could rattle the market, providing some buying opportunities.
Poor Portugal, Ireland and Greece are saddled with their harsh fiscal policies and draconian interest rates despite double-digit unemployment and negative GDP numbers.
Other semiconductor market research firms have also recently reduced their forecasts, and have changed their growth outlooks for 2012 from positive to negative numbers.
The latest GDP statistics in the Euro-zone countries are barely positive and the trend is leading to significant negative numbers for the current quarter.
As the data comes with a natural lag, we could still be in for a slew of negative numbers that could further depress investor confidence.
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He managed to read negative numbers as positive and vice versa.
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And here is another way to look at drought severity in the US for June going back over 100 years (higher numbers wetter, negative numbers are more drought), again from the NOAA. 2012 is utterly unremarkable.
Growth will return from negative numbers (a decline of as much as 5% in 2012) to positive (up to 10% revenue growth in 2013.) Investors who understand this will be able to properly navigate the timing of their semiconductor investments to maximize their return.
The negative one-time numbers for two of the three biggest airlines negatively skewed industry results.
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Data from the Association of Leading Visitor Attractions (Alva) also suggests the Olympics had a negative impact on visitor numbers in London.
Keeping a mobile phone close to the testes, they found, had a significant negative impact on sperm numbers and motility, though they do not speculate why that might be.
The gross job numbers behind the negative net tell a far different story.
Perhaps, it is because of the overall negative market sentiment following some disappointing numbers out of the Chicago PMI in the morning.
He tapped numbers to make them negative and added them to both sides of the equation.
That ended a run of nine consecutive months of negative year-on-year sales numbers.
The latest negative sentiment is bringing down the whisper numbers for iPhone sales.
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Systems without this type of negative feedback ultimately explode in costs and numbers.
The sentiment numbers are also turning more negative, as the American Association of Individual Investors (AAII) sentiment survey showed a jump to 49.8% bearish, up from 31% bearish the prior week.
In the sovereign debt space, which is government bonds, the debt ratings of developed countries remain under pressure for downgrading, including in the U.K., France and as we all know now, here in the U.S. But emerging markets, which have enjoyed back-to-back years of credit rating upgrades are seeing those upgrade numbers dwindle, with some negative outlooks in some developing nations.
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After having gained handsomely, all three major equity indices in the U.S. peaked just after 10 AM as the ISM manufacturing numbers were released, then tested negative territory for a few minutes.
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The U.S. economic reports this week continued to surprise on the upside, and even if the recovery were to stumble again the reversal would show up slowly in the monthly reports, first a softening of the numbers, before they would turn negative.
The RSPB has hit back at claims that increasing numbers of red kites are having a negative effect on smaller animals in the Chilterns.
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