New home sales are expected to fall about 10.4 percent, from 1.06 million in 2006 to 950, 000 this year.
Lexmark now thinks its fourth-quarter sales are going to fall about 17.0%, a bit worse than its previous previous guidance, which predicted a drop in the low- to mid-teen range.
This, too, demands large spending cuts (inflation-adjusted discretionary spending would need to fall by about 25% by 2010).
The pound has been allowed to fall to about 3.63 to the dollar in exchange bureaus, a 6.8% devaluation.
They were forecasting the unemployment rate to climb to 6.3% in October and for payrolls to fall by about 200, 000.
Even if world production increases by 10% over the next ten years, American consumption will still have to fall by about 27%.
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The annual growth rate of the province's gross domestic product is expected to fall to about 10% from 14.5% last year, according to Global Insight Inc.
AOL's share of AOL Japan is expected to fall to about 39%, effectively giving DoCoMo a controlling stake in the company, a report in the Asian Wall Street Journal said.
The Social Security trust fund will technically cover any shortfall for another 20 years or so, but then benefits would have to fall by about one-quarter to match outlays with revenues.
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The solar manufacturing business has been in a bad shape over the past year as a glut of solar panels worldwide caused the panel prices to fall by about 50 percent during 2011.
So, when Greece's current deficit is running at just over 13% of its GDP it's easy to see that if 30% tax was collected on the 30% shadow economy, then the deficit would fall to about 4% of GDP overnight --very close to the target, which is 3%.
What travel agents learned from Expedia, Borders learned from Amazon, Tower Records learned from Apple iTunes and Blockbuster learned from Netflix, the traditional game makers are about to learn from free-to-play online video game companies: their business is about to fall off a cliff.
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The end result is that assets would fall to about 1, 625 billion by my count, eliminating derivatives assets.
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The IEA estimates that Iran's oil exports may fall to about 60% of their former level once the sanctions are fully in place.
Much the same has been said in the past, as turnout has continued to fall and scepticism about the whole enterprise has continued to grow.
Trevor Little, a professor at the North Carolina State University college of textiles, reckons that the domestically-made share of the American clothing business will fall to about 25%, but stabilise there for the foreseeable future.
The saga at AIG, coming on the same weekend as the collapse of Lehman and the sale of Merrill Lynch to Bank of America, is raising alarms that another major financial institution is about to fall.
The saga at AIG, coming on the same weekend as the collapse of Lehman Brothers and the sale of Merrill Lynch to Bank of America, is raising alarms that another major financial institution is about to fall.
However, there also were those who appeared to be tone deaf to the issue, or had already taken a great deal of money just as the wheels were about to fall off of the wagon.
Under the new final rules, the subsidies that allow seniors to choose private insurance options will fall by about 4.7% to 5.6%, not the 6.9% to 7.8% that HHS proposed in February.
This reflex occurs because our skin ridges signal that the object is about to fall.
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Housing prices are about to fall precipitously and this will create a new wave of foreclosures.
His ancestral house is narrow and shaky, and looks like it's about to fall apart.
Worse, earnings forecasts peaked in 2000 just as the stockmarket was about to fall.
"Everyone thinks the New York City office market is about to fall off the cliff, " says Smotrich.
If I could choose anything for them to fall head over heels about it would be imagination and wonder.
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The second reason for thinking Mr Prodi is not about to fall is that the right is in disarray.
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At the same time, Walker is working on a book that's expected to be published this fall about the union fight.
The year has begun with mutterings about the pound - with some suggesting that it is about to fall off a cliff.
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