Kim Bayley, director of the ERA, blamed the slump on a weak year with few blockbuster hits.
The cereal index, which hit its highest level since 2008, was the focus of the report, as the FAO estimated that a tightening market on the back of a weak year for cereal production in 2010 will put additional pressure on prices.
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For all of 2012, Fiesta sold 17 percent fewer units than a year earlier, sliding to under 57, 000 sales overall (though in December they rose by more than 50 percent versus a weak year-earlier month, and ticked up by more than 20 percent last month).
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Domestic demand, it said, would remain weak next year before picking up in 2014.
Ten-year AAA munis were unchanged yielding 2.26% (98.3% of treasuries) after a weak 30-year long bond auction.
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The results were good, but we have to admit they are compared to a pretty weak quarter a year ago.
The proposal could also add 1.3 million jobs to a very weak roster next year and another 800, 000 in 2013, they say.
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From 1984 through 2008, the performance of the Philadelphia Stock Exchange Gold and Silver Index (XAU) has historically been weak during the year of a presidential election.
"Typically from about March to the end of July is a seasonally weak time of year for gold, " said Haytham Hodaly, senior precious metals analyst at Salman Partners.
The IMF's own recent analyses, which refute the idea that fiscal contractions boost growth in the short term, suggest that such a tightening might reduce the rich world's already weak growth next year by a percentage point or so.
For Tuesday's move, analysts also cited a possible glut of shares early next year, a weak outlook for corporate earnings and an expected seasonal cash crunch toward the year's end.
Expects net income to slump 61% this business year with weak slot machine demand at home.
The so-called fiscal cliff in the U.S., a weak European economy and year-end tax-related selling are among them.
The Brazilian government wanted a weak currency all last year, when it was a strong BRL1.65 to the dollar.
The data failed to improve sentiment also because weak production in the year-earlier period has helped the latest reading.
The economy was extremely weak in the fiscal year that just ended, weaker than most people predicted some months ago.
The MLP has been somewhat hurt this year by weak gas and NGL prices, resulting in flat distributions for the past two quarters.
The improved results were due largely to a relatively weak quarter the previous year which included charges and high taxes that did not recur.
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Office Depot ( ODP - news - people ) and Staples--stand to do well, at least against weak comps for a year.
For investors, the weak start to the year means there is still time to get in at reasonable prices, but not every energy bet will be a winner.
But Apple always has something new in the offing, a thought that might calm analysts who have complained that the product lineup for the coming year looks weak.
Consumer spending is expected to remain weak in the New Year, owing to the impact of a rise in payroll taxes, also agreed as part of the fiscal cliff deal.
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust - which saw a deadly outbreak of clostridium difficile amid serious hygiene lapses between 2004 and 2006 - was rated weak for the third year in a row.
Some particularly poor performing acute trusts were highlighted: Barking, Havering and Redbridge hospitals received a double weak rating, while the Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust was deemed weak for the fourth year in a row.
The chief executive of Centrica, Sam Laidlaw, says I am painting a misleading picture - that I failed to point out that British Gas's residential supply business had an unusually weak first half last year, and that profits were therefore returning to nearer the norm.
Profits fell last year because of weak global demand for disk-drive parts, but the consensus is that company earnings will grow 55% this year and close to 20% next.
An evaluation published earlier this year reported that children on the scheme made 20 months' progress in just one year, whereas similarly weak readers who received no special help made just five months' progress, and so ended the year even further below the level expected for their age.
After posting a net loss for year ending Mar. 31 on weak demand, Sega Sammy is forecasting a return to profit this year, helped by the popularity of a pachinko machine featuring manga character Hokuto Ken and the release of a new Sonic the Hedgehog videogame.
Given this, the weak retail sales seen this year were painting a dark picture.
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