This news followed hard on the heels of the news that housing prices continue to fall in 16 out of 20 major U.S. cities for the sixth month straight, to the level of a decade ago, prices on average down over one third with nine cities hitting their lowest level since the bust.
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Suppose that the Bank of Japan set a target for the price level based on an average inflation rate of 1% since 1998.
Now a cabal of professional traders is playing a game of meta-finance that generally disregards fundamentals and operates on a level inaccessible to the average investor.
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Tony LaRussa, Bobby Cox and Joe Torre have 91 years of managerial experience between them on the major league level with an average of 30.3 years per person.
The average book value of the life firms' shares is now equivalent to 14, 900 on the Nikkei 225 stockmarket average, compared with the Nikkei's actual level of around 20, 600.
If the market is to reverse its 2008 misfortunes, keep in mind that technical challenges remain, such as the 1, 530 level on the SPX (site of its 80-week moving average).
The European Environment Agency says the average temperature on the continent in the last decade was already 1.3 degrees Celsius above the preindustrial level.
To confirm this result, the researchers also looked at characteristics such as each participant's birthweight, his mother's age when she gave birth, the mother's level of education and her marital status, all of which differ, on average, between the poor and the middle classes.
But hang on: in the long-term chiropractic treatment group, the average level was 146.
On average, women still earn less money than men doing the same level of work, and even though we outnumber men when it comes to bachelor degrees earned, we are still grossly underrepresented in higher-level leadership positions.
According to research also carried out by the corporate governance advisory group, Manifest, the average level of dissent registered in all explicit votes on remuneration was 11.7% - which was up from 9.6% in the previous year, but significantly below the dissent levels of 16% and 12.4% seen in 2002 and 2003 respectively.
Consider the recent Altimeter Group report which found that, on average, enterprise-level organizations manage a staggering 178 company-owned social media accounts.
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The Dow Jones industrial average reached its highest level in a month on Tuesday.
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At the end of one year, 42 patients on LAF237 plus metformin--a commonly prescribed drug--maintained an A1C level that was on average 1.1% lower than the 29 patients taking metformin and a placebo.
The average 11-year age of US cars is at the highest level on record, up from 8.5 years in 1995.
Ofgem's review of the market also show that - on average - power companies' profit margins are at their lowest level for two years.
The average age of cars on the road today is 11 years, creating what automakers say is an unprecedented level of pent-up demand.
On a personal level, the governor gets high marks, as 66% believe he "cares about the average person, " up slightly from the 64% who believed that in April.
Spain 10-year bond yields on Thursday rose to their highest level since 1997, with interest rates rising 1.5 points above the average paid at similar auctions this year.
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Financing is cheap on loans used to finance leverage buyouts: The average yield in the junk-bond market is at its lowest level since October 2007, falling to 8.7%.
The risk retained by the employer depends on the level of the cap - and the extent to which it is increased each year - relative to average salary levels in the scheme.
When you look at the weekly graph for the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index (SOX) you see that semiconductors are on the cusp of its 200-week simple moving average at 341.34 and that a trend below that key technical level indicates risk to its annual value level at 270.98.
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