The COMP slumped below its 80-week moving average for the first time since mid-2006, but remains above possible support from the site of its August 2007 low at 2, 386.
The names are a mouthful and the play-by-play guys seemingly had to keep mouthing them (no wonder, considering the game sponsors are also broadcast sponsors) while pretending not to notice how often the comp-seat "fans" deserted the stands after one good toddy.
For the week, the SPX and Dow both suffered -2.1% losses, and the Nasdaq Comp performed the poorest, off -2.7%.
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The Dow gave up -2.1%, finishing with its first weekly close below 13, 000 since late July, and the Nasdaq Comp brought up the rear, down -2.6%.
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The Nasdaq Comp did not fare nearly as well, finishing the week off almost -1.0%.
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The money to pay for the teachers or the extended unemployment comp or the public works project will, sooner or later, have to be extracted from the pockets of taxpayers.
The Dow had its second weekly decline, but barely, falling -0.1%, and the Nasdaq Comp remained near 12-year highs, although notching a fractional weekly loss.
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My 11 year old attends the local comp (8.15am start).
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Tech was particularly weak, with the Nasdaq Comp off -0.74%.
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This strong financial position has buoyed XLNX to a gain of more than 25% on a year-to-date basis, pushing the shares past the outperforming COMP's loss of about 7%.
Yes, there were plenty of headline-driven ups and downs, but for the week the Dow ended essentially flat, the SPX was off -0.2%, and the Nasdaq Comp gave up -0.1%.
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But good luck finding the right comp there!
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In other words, the largest state-operated workers comp fund in the country had massively misrepresented its performance.
The Nasdaq Composite (COMP) shed 2.6%, while the Russell 2000 Index dropped 2.3% last week.
The Dow and Nasdaq Comp were both down -0.2% and the SPX off -0.3%.
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For the full year, the retailer sees comp store sales down 2%-10%.
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For Q3, the company sees comp store sales down 5%-10%, with profits of 28-36 cents a share, below the Street at 41 cents.
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Additionally, while Europe was leading the baton in comp sales growth last quarter, a slowdown in European business has further added to this concern.
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She figures the second half of 2009 will bring some improvement to the big luxury chains, but not to the point of comp sales breaking even or turning positive.
In the 1990s workers' comp costs fell, thanks to deregulation, which goosed price competition among insurers, and the stock market, which helped insurance firms cover underwriting losses with investment income.
Luckily, Delta rerouted me out the next day and gave me a hotel coupon to comp my room for the night.
Originally, the new deferred-comp law regulations were to take effect on Jan. 1, 2005.
The SPX registered a -1.5% loss and the Dow and Nasdaq Comp were both off -1.8%.
Our main comp in the market is down significantly from when we last fundraised.
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Putting current CEOs on a comp committee generally does lead to much higher comp for the management team.
While Best Buy has struggled in recent years, the consumer electronics chain posted better than expected results for the fourth quarter with comp store sales up roughly one percent.
That triggered a massive movement among brokers who took major sign-on deals at rival firms just so they could make up for the losses on deferrred comp-money they were hoping to use for retirement.
It is not a pretty picture, and while Dick Schulze may have once been a visionary, the specter of failed retailers such as Circuit City and Comp USA, as well as the current struggles of Radio Shack and Game Stop, makes one wonder whether any consumer electronics retailer will ever recapture the glory days of growth and lofty multiples.
And a similar comparison of Wal-Mart's comp sales to the Conference Board's consumer confidence reading showed almost no correlation between those two measurements either.
The video game retailer sees Q4 comp store sales ranging from flat to 2%.
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