Nationwide in November, apartment prices were 0.17% lower than the previous month, the second month of falling prices, and some analysts predict new apartments may sell for about 30% less in 2012 than they did this year.
These are some of the conclusions of the second phase of an eight-month study on the evolving workforce commissioned by Dell and our partner Intel.
The quarterly sales figures are based on a preliminary analysis of data from the city Department of Finance, and include closings filed as of the end of the second month of each quarter.
Far less lucky was Pacific Biosciences, the maker of DNA sequencers which is ranking on the sad side of this roundup for the second month in a row.
Suffice to say that trusted experts like Morgan Stanley's Huw van Steenis are expecting banks to hoover up another 150bn-400bn euros in medium-term funding from the ECB at the second offering at the end of this month.
An optimist may point out that the positive variation in the first month of the second quarter could suggest better days ahead.
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Update your PC once a month as soon as Microsoft releases the patches (on Patch Tuesday, the second Tuesday of every month).
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The disruption has affected hundreds of thousands of travellers since Wednesday when the Eyjafjallajokull volcano began erupting for the second time in a month, hurling a plume of ash 11km (seven miles) into the atmosphere.
The banking laws introduced at the beginning of the month were intended to buy time while the second stage of the debt-rescheduling plan is completed.
The largest wireless carrier in the world took the market by surprise for the second consecutive month, announcing the addition of a staggering 7.05 million net 3G subscribers in January.
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The break-up is scheduled to take effect the end of this month and will create the second-largest U.S. refiner after Valero Energy.
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On Thursday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced the U.S. economy suffered its second consecutive month of falling prices, or deflation, as measured by the consumer price index (CPI).
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Nadal, who had been sidelined for seven months, has now lost six of his 44 clay finals -- three of them to Djokovic, who will be hoping to stop the 11-time grand slam champion defending his French Open title when the season's second major starts at the end of next month.
But the report said the pace of this decline eased for the second consecutive month.
President Florentino Perez smashed previous highest marks to bring Luis Figo and Zinedine Zidane to the Bernabeu in his first stint in charge, then made AC Milan's Brazilian superstar Kaka his first 'Galactico' capture of his second reign at the start of this month.
But medical technology has also pushed earlier and earlier the age at which a foetus becomes viable outside the womb, putting abortions even in the second three-month term of pregnancy on shakier moral ground.
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And whether you were able to take advantage of the three-day pullback to new, short-term lows in technically oversold territory just after mid-September, or waited for the second, similar sell-off at the end of the month, both short-term pullbacks proved excellent opportunities for traders and active investors alike looking for an entry point in the stock.
The availability of permanent staff continued to deteriorate last month, with the second-sharpest rate of decline for almost five years.
The markets will be holding their breath to see what Chairman Ben Bernanke has to say regarding the winding down of the second quantitative easing program, which ends this month.
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More than one million copies sold since the first edition of the trilogy that appeared last October and the second volume just published this month.
Those reports were for April, the first month of the second quarter.
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The stock bested its summer highs in the second half of January after climbing into bull market territory at the beginning of the month, and has since begun to edge higher in a wedge-shaped, trading range.
The BBC's Alison Roberts in Lisbon says it is the second seizure of counterfeit euros this month in Oporto.
Confidence in the eurozone economy fell in April for a second consecutive month, increasing the likelihood of a cut in interest rates later this week.
In the United States, President Ronald Reagan, after an assassination attempt on a Washington sidewalk in the second month of his first term, was assured that efforts would be redoubled to make certain no one who wished to hurt him would be able to get that close again.
For the fiscal second quarter ending this month, the analyst now sees profits of 81 cents a share, down from 84 cents.
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It was the second highest passenger total ever recorded by the airport for the month of October.
The injury, suffered Saturday against the Phillies, was the second in a month for Strasburg, who was disabled for an inflammation in the back of his shoulder in July.
Credit card rates across all categories were also unchanged in the second half of September, which was a change from the first half of the month, when consumer rewards and non-rewards rates both rose.
Djokovic is expected to defend his title at the Madrid Open next month ahead of the second grand slam of the season in Paris.
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