Banks have been hoarding cash, preparing their balance sheets for the quarter-end and year-end.
Quarter-end balance sheet preparations are exacerbating the phenomenon, even as the world's central banks continue to pump cash into the banking system.
An analysis earlier this year by The Wall Street Journal found that other banks were reducing their level of debt at quarter-end.
He bought 275, 472 shares, bringing his total to 3, 539, 500 at quarter-end.
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The fact that September sales rose higher than those of August tells us nothing more than that normal quarter-end dynamics are still in effect in semiconductors.
This partly reflects a temporary quarter-end scramble for funds.
"Most senior bankers say issuance will be at a standstill for the next few weeks and then will pick up only slightly, " said Thomson Reuters' Loan Pricing Corp. in a third quarter-end report.
The SIA compares three-month moving averages (3MMA) to eliminate quarter-end bumps, and when the 3MMA for December of 2011 is compared to the same number for 2010 semiconductor revenues prove to have fallen 5.3%.
Both companies reported stellar fourth-quarter and year-end profit gains on strength in capital-markets activities.
FiOS Internet penetration was 34 percent at the end of second- quarter 2011, compared with 30 percent at the end of second-quarter 2010.
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FiOS Internet penetration was 37.3 percent at the end of fourth-quarter 2012, compared with 35.5 percent at the end of fourth-quarter 2011.
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FiOS Internet penetration was 36.6 percent at the end of second-quarter 2012, compared with 33.9 percent at the end of second-quarter 2011.
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ViroLogic will report fourth-quarter and 2004 year-end financial results on Feb. 22.
Satyam, the client, probably complained about extra fees and delays caused by having to wait for the U.S. every quarter and year-end.
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Netscape Communications reported higher revenues than expected in the quarter to end-April.
Its better-than-expected third-quarter results were overshadowed by the high-end jewelry retailer's disappointing earnings outlook for this quarter.
") Alcoa set the tone for the second-quarter growth theme on Monday when it cited strong end-markets for its second-quarter growth. (See "Alcoa Mines Better Demand To Beat Street.
Stoudemire looked rusty in his return, making just 3 of 8 eight shots -- one a dunk, another on a buzzer-beating 3-pointer to end the third quarter -- and finished with seven points and two rebounds.
Nonetheless, in a recent study by Harvard's Richard Murnane and co-authors, differences in mother-child interaction patterns like these were found to account for one-third of the black-white gap in math and English skills at the beginning of kindergarten -- and one-quarter at the end of third grade.
Stoudemire's buzzer-beater to end the quarter got the Knicks within 62-51 and New York eventually got as close as 65-57 with 9:10 left.
Sony shares sagged Wednesday morning after it announced worse-than-expected losses in its fiscal third quarter and drastically cut its year-end forecast, a day after announcing that Sir Howard Stringer will step down as CEO April 1.
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The Kings got the lead to 18-6, but then Stoudemire had a dunk and three-point play on consecutive possessions, scoring seven points in a 19-4 burst to end the quarter that gave the Knicks a 25-22 lead.
And Sweden's Ericsson, the world's leading supplier of mobile-phone infrastructure, reported horrid third-quarter results at the end of October.
Whatever the causes, the phenomenon has given hope to goldbugs hoping to end their quarter-century diaspora and to investors whose stock market losses have still not been made whole.
Half of City economists expect a quarter-point cut by the end of 2008, according to a Bloomberg News poll on August 22nd, compared with a quarter of them on August 8th.
In the case of IT Solutions, a boost in sales of mid-to-high-end products, including PCs and printers improved quarter-on-quarter earnings.
In the third quarter, Guildford started with a 10-2 run to take the first double-digit lead of the night and a 14-6 run at the end of the third quarter gave them an 88-70 lead going into the last 10 minutes.
This saw Juniper beat its last quarter revenue guidance on the high-end by 4%.
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On an annual basis, Spain's economy shrank 2% in the quarter - the worst fall since the end of 2011.
The figure produced in the third month after the end of a quarter - in the Quarterly National Accounts - uses more of the available data.
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