With advance warning, of course, the stocks tend to trade down in anticipation of big patent expirations.
Deferred Eurodollar contracts also halved session losses to trade down five basis points.
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So far, luxury brands are holding up, with consumers wanting to trade down within the brand rather than abandon the brand.
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To offset this, the household would need to trade down to a lower subscription video package, at the expense of fewer linear channels.
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The people who lose out from falling house prices are not house-price obsessives, but those who are elderly, about to trade down, or emigrate.
In Forbes, Ashlea Ebeling showed how an extended home buyer tax credit might be good news for seniors who wish to trade down to smaller homes.
Lower incomes encouraged consumers to trade down to cheaper goods, and the elimination of textile quotas in January 2009 allowed China to increase its slice of that market.
The National Association of Realtors credits the 10% rise in single-family second-home sales since 1997 to the new ability to trade down and use profits for a second home.
And, here in the developing world, it appears that consumers at the higher end still love brands, and are willing to trade down within the brand rather than abandon the brand altogether.
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Christmas bookings are healthy but many restaurateurs are reporting that they are noticeably different from a year ago: individual numbers are down and customers are prone to trade down the menu and wine list.
"It's bringing people together - some of whom are prepared to trade down so that they don't have the spare room but some of whom are in desperate need and you're not even hearing the voice of those people in this debate, " he said.
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Speaking before the Commerce Committee on Thursday, Evans said he would work as commerce secretary to tear down trade barriers and keep them down, while seeking to protect the interests of American workers and even import and export ratios between the United States and a number of key trading partners.
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All well and good, however, MarketMind is now ready to play the long, directional bull trade to hunt down and capture a bigger and better beta.
India's Sensex stood out as the region's only benchmark to trade lower, down 0.9% late in the afternoon, after the Reserve Bank of Index shocked markets by failing to cut interest rates.
Until now the European Union's single market, though far from perfect, has been a shining example of a sustained and determined effort to bring trade barriers down and of the benefits that brings.
As the economy remains stagnant and underemployment remains high, diners will trade down to cheaper options.
Therefore, once the transaction is completed, we believe there is a high likelihood that the stock will trade down to this level and likely even lower.
In the nervous reaction to the World Trade Center buildings coming down, building standards were amended to provide for better fire proofing and an additional stairwell for tall buildings.
No matter how you feel about GameStop, the impact of anti-used games would be felt far further than retail, affecting our ability to share or trade games among ourselves without doing anything to bring down prices on new games.
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So we are working to break down barriers to trade and investment wherever we can.
If we do that we can agree on producing our own energy, breaking down barriers to trade.
He contends both companies are getting a tailwind from an industry-wide trade-down to pre-paid plans from post-paid plans.
The Calisaya case has led to concerted efforts by the Bolivian and Argentine police forces to clamp down on the trade.
Meanwhile, the South Asian Preferential Tariff Agreement, which took effect Dec. 8, is expected to boost trade and help hold down prices in products made in the subcontinent.
"We expect the global economy and world trade growth to really slow down this year, so I would be very surprised if manufacturers can pass on the sort of cost increases that we've seen in this data, " said Mark Miller, an economist at Morgan Stanley in London.
Throughout Asia, trade to China has gone from 2.2 percent in 1991 to 24.4 percent today while Japan accounted for 22.4 percent of Asian trade and is now down to 13 percent, according to the U.N.
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It allows the president to negotiate trade deals subject only to an up-or-down vote by Congress (read: no amendments attached).
"Fast track" authority gives the president unbridled power to broker trade agreements, which are then subject to an up or down vote by Congress.
Defenders of the single market point to how national governments and the European Parliament watered down a directive that aimed to free trade in services (the bulk of any modern economy), long before the bubble burst in 2008.
Indeed, the mere prospect of renewed river trade has been enough to drive down some prices.
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