However, the market place is so far this week perceiving progress is being made on the matter.
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So far this week, cancellation rates have continued to be high and on-time arrival rates have been low.
So far this week, the blue-chip barometer has shed 5.9% of its value.
It has been back and forth for the metal so far this week.
FORBES: Gold Traders Eye U.S. Dollar, Technicals As Consolidation Continues
Gold has risen so far this week on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange, while silver fell.
FORBES: Gold Seen Outperforming Silver In Coming Weeks As European Debt Crisis Continues
The Mountain West Conference, judged one of the top two leagues in college basketball all season, fell to 1-3 so far this week.
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Last but certainly not least, shares of Cintas Corporation (NASDAQ: CTAS) provided some of the biggest gains from The Stock List so far this week.
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The market place is also more stable so far this week, which is also a bullish factor for the gold market as the yellow metal is acting like a risk asset recently.
FORBES: Comex Gold Gets Boost From Coordinated Central Bank Move to Boost Liquidity
Two other major GOP hopefuls, Iowa frontrunner Mitt Romney and Fred Thompson, have actually been absent from the state so far this week, though each is a constant presence in TV ads that tout their conservative credentials.
After a quiet week for economic reports last week, so far this week the reports from the housing industry have been that new home starts declined again in February, this time by 5.9%, while permits for future starts also declined.
The most intriguing political read of the new year so far comes this week from the Huffington Post's political editor Tom Edsall, who interviewed a wide range of Democratic strategists to assess just how bad the environment is for their party heading into 2010.
The coldest weather so far this winter is creeping over the northern United States this week, the National Weather Service said , sending the temperature plunging below zero in Chicago for the first time in 711 days.
This was probably the week with most big data news so far this year, teeming with numerous announcements from big data vendors.
As a result, dollar inflows rose 140% so far this year, Mantega said last week.
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Miss Godden's mother, Karen Edwards, launched the petition this week and so far it has more than 300 signatures.
The Senate Finance Committee, which is widely expected to clear health care reform legislation this week, has so far rejected a public health care insurance option.
After closed-door briefings on Capitol Hill with the FBI and other law enforcement officials, lawmakers said earlier this week that it appeared so far that the brothers were radicalized via the Internet instead of by direct contact with any terrorist groups, and that the older brother was the driving force in the bomb plot.
This week the gold market is so far benefiting from the aforementioned situation, despite a stronger U.S. dollar Monday.
FORBES: Comex Gold Ends Solidly Higher on Bargain Hunting, Safe-Haven Buying
This week the gold market is so far benefiting from the aforementioned situation, despite a stronger U.S. dollar early Monday.
FORBES: Comex Gold Posting Solid Gains On Bargain Hunting, Safe-Haven Demand
However, crude oil prices remain in a near-term uptrend and are so far just seeing a corrective and profit-taking pullback early this week.
FORBES: Comex Gold Ends Slightly Lower But Well Off Daily Low On Bargain Hunting
We could see more volatility in its stock this week as more details emerge, but so far it looks like the iPhone 4S will surpass its predecessor.
FORBES: Apple Shares Set To Blossom To $500 As iPhone 4S Pre-Orders Roll In
So far, the system had worked, with no fraud reported, although this week, many people could not get through as publicity about the site caused Internet traffic to jump to 28 times normal levels.
Eight IPOs priced last week, but the amount of capital raised by IPOs so far this year is down 25%.
The Black Stars midfielder turned out twice for Ghana last week - despite not having played for Scottish side Hearts so far this season.
Finance Minister Guido Mantega said this week that Brazil banks borrowed 215% more in dollars so far this year, with Brazilian companies dollar borrowing up 60%.
FORBES: Brazil Fails to Save Dollar; Likely to Give up Trying
Mervyn King, the governor of the Bank of England, had to write an open letter to the chancellor this week to explain why consumer-price inflation had diverged so far from the 2% target, reaching 3.5% in the year to January.
Weekly traffic reports also show intermodal freight, or the system of putting tractor-trailer boxes on trains for more efficient cross-country transport, was up 4.4% in the week ending Oct. 1, and up 1.8% so far this year.
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Just before this week's rate rise, shares were still up by 9% so far this year.
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