In the most recent survey, about 39% of investors were considered bullish, which is historically a pretty low figure and would place it in the lower third of August readings over the past 30 years.
What is it that allows, say, Derek Jeter to perform better in the ninth inning of an October playoff game against the Baltimore Orioles, than in, say, the third inning of an August regular season game against the Kansas City Royals?
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Moreover, Sanderson Farms, which announced results for its fiscal third quarter at the end of August, reminded investors at that time that that struggle may not be at an end.
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In the euro area, for instance, it has grown by one-third since the eve of the crisis in August 2007, even though interest rates are barely lower now than then.
It is thought that General Musharraf may make an announcement after the third and last batch of local elections in August and before his term as head of the army expires on October 7th.
Meanwhile, figures released by Edinburgh City Council show the Royal Mile had its busiest ever week during the Edinburgh Festival, with footfall up by more than a third on last year in the first three weeks of August.
The first estimates of third-quarter GDP growth, published on Wednesday, suggest that despite the onset of the credit crunch in August, output accelerated over the summer, growing at an annual pace of 3.9% between July and September, thanks in large part to surging exports.
The August expiration cycle is the third-best return of all the months (only April and December are better).
It had many economists worried about a double-dip back into recession, especially after economic reports for July and August, the first two months of the third quarter, showed sharp declines in auto sales, home sales, and consumer and business confidence.
The Ibrox outfit are away to Hearts, who finished third last term, in their second game of the season on 23 August - the first Sunday fixture of the league season.
When Hurricane Katrina's mighty winds and waters slammed into the Big Easy last August, Ashe jumped off a third-floor balcony of her elegant home into a tree and clung to its swaying branches.
Also, the average price of housing in 100 major Chinese cities rose in August for the third straight month, indicating that the decline in property prices appears to have bottomed out.
However, he only arrived in England around 1500 BST on Thursday after a long flight from Lahore via Karachi and Dubai and believes he needs several more days of practice, citing the third Test at The Oval, starting on 18 August, as a more likely target.
The results augur similar fates for other banks that have benefited in the first six months of the year from strong trading, including Lehman Bros. (nyse: LEH - news - people ), Bear Stearns (nyse: BSC - news - people ) and Morgan Stanley (nyse: MS - news - people ), all of which will report in the coming days their fiscal third quarters ending in August.
In August 2012, results indicated that uncertainty was rampant with about one third of the sample more optimistic, another third less optimistic, and the final third no change (see Figure 1).
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The partnership between UNESCO and the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ), which has assigned a Knight International Journalism Fellow to the project, will ensure that seven major media outlets that participated in the training programme will now advance to the third phase of the project, receiving personalized business coaching over the next several months, ending in August 2012.
Women have only gotten about one-third of the roughly 200, 000 jobs added in January and February, and just as recently as August they were even losing jobs.
"I would have thought that by the time of the third complaint a different view might have saved the schoolgirl from the attack imposed upon her in August, " he said.
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The service was heavily promoted in Europe, especially the U.K. Real Network's Rhapsody service announced in August that it had lost 50, 000 of its 800, 000 subscribers during the third quarter, blaming credit card defaults and the lousy economy.
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