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Housing prices rose in 63 cities and fell in 37 in August from the preceding month, the survey showed.
In August, consumption of electricity was up 9.1% from the same month last year but down 0.1% from the preceding month.
Prices are still going up especially in the inland cities but in April the transaction value of homes fell 21.3 % across the country as compared to the preceding month.
One thing that stood out in the tables below, though, was this: In the two weeks following that big down day, the SPX is positive 67% of the time if the preceding month was negative, compared to 57% of the time if the previous month was positive.
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The popularity of the eBay app suite can be gauged from the fact that 25 million of these downloads came in the preceding six month period.
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However, the decline in like-for-like sales - which excludes the effect of store closures - was faster in the last three months than in the preceding six-month period.
In the preceding three-month rolling period, that number was 10%.
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Employers added just 88, 000 jobs last month, much lower than the average of 220, 000 per month in the preceding four months.
Though the rise in the number of jobless has slowed since September to an average of 10, 000 a month (compared with nearly 30, 000 a month over the preceding 12 months), few expect the number of jobs to grow until the second half of this year or even early next year--in time, perhaps, for a March election.
On March 11 the Japan REIT index reached a four year eight month high, 10% above the level immediately preceding the Lehman shock.
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Why, because this uncanny 16 month cycle pinpointed the market highs in 2000 and 2007, preceding major declines in stock values.
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Nytimes.com averaged 33 million unique visitors per month in the second quarter, in line with its average for the preceding 11 months, said CEO Janet Robinson on a call with analysts.
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