It's slightly better, down 1.84 percent, as the afternoon sets off.
When I double-checked the hotel's address on TripAdvisor (their Google results are often ahead of the first-party site), the hotel had dropped to No. 34 and was offering a 50 percent off special.
Even the mighty Amazon.com is slipping, off 8.3 percent from its all-time high in January.
And the other shoppers competing for undies at HankyPanky.com (60 percent off) around midnight on Wednesday when that sale launched clearly agreed.
Australia was in focus after the Reserve Bank of Australia lowered its official interest rate by a quarter percentage point to 2.75 percent amid some signs the economy is coming off the boil as the Australian dollar rises.
Exports fell for the sixth month in a row, down -1.3 percent year over year and they are already coming off a very low base as it is.
Walgreen is down 19 percent in 2010 despite having jumped 11.3 percent through the first half of July, and is still off more than 36 percent from the October 2009 peak.
The emerging market index is down 13 percent, with the Russell 2000 Index of small capitalization properties off 16 percent.
The European banks that hold the toxic Greek government bonds so far have agreed only to a 21 percent write-off.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a study this year that found 4 percent of U.S. adults nodded off or fell asleep at least once while driving in the previous month.
In Las Vegas small business vendors showcased the discounts they planned to offer as part of Small Business Saturday: a jewelry store took 20-percent off its products, a hair salon offered 20-percent off haircuts and threw in a complimentary book, a flower store offered 10-percent off its merchandise.
Had the U.S. financial house been in better shape, the economy might be able to pull off 3.5 percent growth in 2013, making it look almost like an emerging market these days.
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Since peaking in September 2007, online diamond and jewelry retailer Blue Nile (NILE) is off 50 percent.
But I'm just wondering if the excitement may be also in the 4 percent where the model's off.
Oil properties like Exxon and Chevron outperformed, but Schlumberger, the leading oil service operator had a dismal year, off 18 percent.
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In the latest March quarter mortgage originations were off 6 percent.
Political strategists will tell you that because the Hispanic vote normally goes to Democrats, a Republican can usually get elected president if he carves off 35 percent.
Samsung's Magic Eco feature allows users to adjust a monitor's brightness based on different energy consumption levels with four preset energy-saving options to choose from: 100 percent, 75 percent, 50 percent, and Power-Saving Off.
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The financial strain of unpaid leave is stark: the most recent comprehensive study of those who used FMLA leave found that over half who took leave with less than full pay reported having trouble making ends meet and almost 40 percent put off paying bills.
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PriceWaterhouseCoopers, for instance, estimates it can shave 15 to 25 percent off your HR costs.
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In this case, the reason is clear: to get 60 percent off a Swedish massage.
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During the past three years, the financial sector as a whole is off about twenty percent.
The reductions are significant as well, not just a few percent off the US prices.
Every time a guest uses their REDcard, Target takes 5 percent off the entire purchase.
What is most striking to me is that something like 30 percent of market volume trades off-exchange.
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Once beyond that amount, the maximum rate topped off at five percent.
Guests on the current voyage will receive a refund equivalent to three days of the voyage and 50 percent off a future cruise.
Google scheme to gut tax exposure in the U.K. through clever legal foot work in Dublin, have announced a new multinational tax rate of 10 percent on profits drawn off of new patents.
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