When Indonesia announced its IMF package and told investors how bad things were, immediately closing down 16 banks, guess what happened?
Oklahoma City, borrowing its model with younger players, was presumed to have taken its place, but got bad luck when Russell Westbrook went down with an injury.
The new numbers are published just when the United States is having a bad time with its collective stomach.
When a company reports good news or bad news about its business, it can often produce a spillover effect on how investors view the prospects of its competitors.
It's typically a bad sign when a major semiconductor company sees its CEO walk away, and no one in adjoining offices stops to do anything about it.
Its prospects were better when it could honestly say that times were bad.
Investing a large part of a corporate pension fund in the company's own shares turned out to be a particularly bad idea: when Enron went bust, many of its employees lost their entire pension entitlement.
Groupon for its part has no need for any bad publicity, particularly when it is said to be considering an IPO.
Japanese tend to be quiet even when service and food is bad, so the Jumbo had probably grown to disdain its customers.
Lady Ashton also has the bad luck to have taken over just when the EU was losing one of its most powerful weapons: the lure of membership to encourage reform.
Ganguly took over the reigns of the team in 2000 at a time when Indian cricket was going through a bad phase with batting and match-fixing scandals denting its credibility.
BBC: SPORT | Cricket | International Teams | India | Ganguly gone?
When the Bureau of Labor Statistics released its regional and state unemployment numbers today, Texas got a bit of bad news.
The city is bad at attracting people with an advanced business education, leaving its firms at a disadvantage when it comes to marketing and financial engineering.
Porsche startled the market on Friday with its latest sales figures, not because of how good or bad they were, but because of when they were for.
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