Edward Meir, commodities consultant with INTL FCStone, said corporate earnings as of the start of the week showed 62.5% of the companies that reported had topped estimates, but less than 36% exceeded revenue forecasts.
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Motorsport's world governing body the FIA said the one day of testing "will be permitted between the start of the week preceding the second event and the last event of the championship".
The metal hit a multi-month high at the start of the week as expectations built for more monetary accommodation following minutes of the July 31-Aug. 1 meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee that were construed as dovish.
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Wall Street lost some of its recent momentum at the start of the week.
Everybody (campers and staff) gets assigned a nickname at the start of the week.
The fund-raising effort will be launched before the start of Fashion Week in New York.
He repeated the message to members of the European Parliament at the start of this week.
His speech came at the start of a week of events promoting the idea.
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At the start of this week, Zynga announced that it would kick off its IPO roadshow on Monday.
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At the start of the week, Salesforce.com introduced Chatter, a free version of its enterprise social networking product.
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Industry figures were speaking at the start of the week-long Humber Business Week conference at Hull's KC Stadium.
No one is certain why airlines tend to post the bulk of their fare sales at the start of the week.
At the start of this week, most economists in investment banks were forecasting that America could avoid a recession.
Hundreds of schools remained closed across the UK, although numbers shut were down on the start of the week.
The figures were released at the start of RSPCA week (23-29 April) - the charity's largest annual fundraising drive.
"The timing of the change - coming at the start of Remembrance week - was another bitter blow, " she said.
At the start of the week Mr Trelawny's lawyer, Munyaradzi Nzarayapenga, told Reuters that state prosecutors had dropped all charges.
Both Clinton and Obama campaigned heavily in Nevada, where polls showed the two senators neck-and-neck at the start of the week.
Hostilities at the start of the week lifted crude oil on Monday, and this spilled over into gold at the time.
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The debt crisis weighed on the markets from the start of last week, and the selling pressure picked up steam as the week progressed.
At the start of the week write down the one task you could do that week that would make the biggest difference to your business.
The implied yield on the December contract rose from 0.40% at the start of the week to 0.49% at the height of market desperation on Thursday.
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Church officials want a successor to be in place before the start of Holy Week on 24 March, the most important event in the Christian calendar.
In Italy, too - worries about the state of the economy helped push up the Italian government's cost of borrowing at the start of the week.
She then returned at the start of last week after taking a late decision to tackle Wimbledon, but struggled through her first two matches against lowly-ranked players.
The WRU won a High Court order to ensure that selected players were made available for three days of Wales training at the start of last week.
Barrick and Goldcorp have seen their market shares lose 1.5% and 1.2% of their value since the start of the week, respectively, while Newmont has dropped 3.4%.
With investor confidence already rattled because of the eurozone, the US loss of its coveted AAA status has made things worse at the start of the week.
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