Sentences with phrase «as sharp a drop»

The Australian share market has closed 1.6 per cent lower, as a sharp drop in oil prices pulled back energy stocks, and resources stocks weakened.

Therefore, an investor's overall portfolio does not experience as sharp a drop as their stock holdings.

Starter homes have seen the steepest price increases as well as sharp drops in inventory — and a greater proportion of them are fixer - uppers that require additional investment from buyers.

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In fact, it saw the sharpest drop since the financial crisis as weaker corporate performance sacked cash bonuses and accounting regulation hampered pension growth.

Perth has suffered the biggest drop in house prices, falling 2.4 per cent in the June quarter, as capital city house prices across Australia decline by the sharpest rate in nearly than three years.

Deutsche Bank shares dropped more than 3 percent on Thursday morning after reporting lower - than - expected revenue for its first quarter at a time when banking stocks have seen sharp gains after centrist Emmanuel Macron emerged as the winner in the first round of French presidential elections last week.

The Missoula, Montana - based online tour - package company, which he founded in 1999, saw a sharp drop in off in 2001 bookings, as consumers stopped traveling for several months following the attacks.

Population growth rates have fallen in Western Australia and across the country as a whole, with WA experiencing a sharp drop in overseas migration and a net loss of people through interstate movements.

After a sharp drop against the dollar on Friday, sterling ticked up 0.1 percent in early Asian trade as markets braced for a potentially messy election outcome.

Media giant Viacom said on Wednesday it cut the compensation of its top two executives, executive chairman Sumner Redstone and CEO Philippe Dauman, as the company faced business pressures and a sharp drop in its share price.

U.S. stocks experienced sharp drops in August 2015, when China devalued its currency; in January 2016, as oil prices dropped; in June of 2016, after the «Brexit» vote; and in the run — up to the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

While US stocks were lower on Wednesday, the decline wasn't nearly as sharp as early February's market turmoil, when the Dow saw its biggest single - day drop in a day and the S&P 500 entered correction territory (a decline of at least 10 percent from its previous high).

The news came as Chevron also reported a sharp drop in third - quarter earnings that still beat Wall Street's expectations due to cost cuts and strong refining margins.

US stocks cut sharp early losses to end mostly down slightly on Thursday as some disappointing earnings reports offset strong economic data, while bond yields slid after a surprising drop in euro zone inflation data.

NEW YORK (Reuters)- U.S. stocks cut sharp early losses to end mostly down slightly on Thursday as some disappointing earnings reports offset strong economic data, while bond yields slid after a surprising drop in euro zone inflation data.

U.S. stock futures are trading more than 3 % lower as investors worry about a sharp drop in Chinese stocks after Friday's falls of more than 3 % for U.S. indices.

There is no way Beijing can address its debt problem without a sharp drop in GDP growth, but as unwilling as Beijing may be to see much lower growth, it doesn't have any other option.

NEW YORK, Aug 24 (Reuters)- World stock markets plunged on Monday, as a near 9 - percent dive in China shares and a sharp drop in the dollar and major commodities sent investors rushing for the exit.

Cooling US core inflation this year was driven by major one - off drops — especially the sharp fall in wireless costs due to changes in major pricing plans — as well as some moderation in a few key categories such as housing.

Looking at the stock market as a whole, there's been a sharp drop in the number of individual stocks outperforming the S&P 500, while at the same time, an increasing proportion of those outperforming stocks have poor quality ranks (as rated by S&P).

In January, Viacom said it cut the compensation of its top two executives, Redstone and Dauman, as the company faced business pressures and a sharp drop in its share price.

NEW YORK U.S. stocks cut sharp early losses to end mostly down slightly on Thursday as some disappointing earnings reports offset strong economic data, while bond yields slid after a surprising drop in euro zone inflation data.

Facing a sharp drop - off in sales, Chipotle responded with widely publicized measures that the Company touted as improvements to its food safety protocols.

The signs leading to what may be another temporary bottom were negative, just as in gold: very sharp drop and the trend being down.

... the lips of a strange woman drop honey, And her mouth is smoother than oil: But in the end she is bitter as wormwood, Sharp as a two - edged sword...

As we passed it between each other, pondering the usage of butcher knives and sharp rocks, my friend accidentally dropped it on the tile floor.

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Betting market: Jacksonville opened as 5.5 - point favorites and the line dropped down to -4 behind some early sharp action on San Fran.

As you can see from the line chart, the line touched Colts +10 for about 30 minutes after re-opening on Tuesday evening before sharp money caused the line to drop.

It has settled back slightly to 1.77, but with a 2:1 bet count as well as continued sharp action on Man U, we would expect the price to keep dropping, even though in four meetings last season United failed to cover the -1 1/2 handicap.

Ozil has been in fine form recently, while Alexis Sanchez has looked a little lacklustre and not as sharp or committed as we have come to expect from the Chilean wizard, giving the ball away over 30 times in our last two games where we have dropped five points.

At sportsbooks such as Sportsbook.com and BetUS, the line has actually dropped from the opening number, which further exemplifies that sharp money has come in on the Twins across the market.

A day later, we started getting sharp money on Notre Dame as the line dropped back to -12.

The disadvantage of the drop point blade is that it is not as sharp as the clip point therefore a less suitable option for piercing.

It may be assumed, that, as in other countries, the sharp drop in breastfeeding rates after the first few days of life is due to lack of breastfeeding support and is a major reason that women do not achieve their own breastfeeding goals [3].

He lamented over what he regarded as era of extinction of crude oil in the world, saying the sharp drop in the global prices of crude oil was a signal to the fact that government at all levels need to shift face to agriculture.

Recent data released by the National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, had showed that a sharp decline was recorded in revenue accruable to the Federal Government from the petroleum sector, as the country's earnings from crude oil export dropped to N5.271 trillion for the nine month period, January to September 2015.

Labour are down sharply, the Liberal Democrats are up, benefiting either from the publicity of their leadership election or through Labour's misfortune, the Conservative vote is down very slightly — the same as we saw with BPIX, rather than the sharp drop we saw with ICM.

Experts at the Global Carbon Project and the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom found emissions globally could drop as much as 0.6 percent this year — after growing at that rate in 2014 — a sharp difference from the 2.4 percent annual growth rate the world has averaged in the past decade.

Flynn reasons that our modern brains require more maintenance to stay sharp, so as we age and use our analytical skills less, our IQ may drop quite steeply.

Following the bleaching event, researchers recorded a sharp drop in the diversity of fish communities as the mix or species changed.

Now, locked in limestone that was formed in shallow seawater offshore of the supercontinent Pangaea, scientists have found an isotopic signal to support a sharp drop in pH. The catastrophe holds a cautionary lesson: Due to the burning of fossil fuels, today's oceans are acidifying at an even faster rate than they were at the time of the extinctions, although it hasn't yet persisted nearly as long.

The potential marriage was offered as a way out of the red for Scripps, which had seen a sharp drop in research funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

By 2012, the drop was even sharper: about 41 %, as estimated by the federal government.

With the demise of the Aztec empire came a sharp drop in the cultivation of Amaranth, even as a food source.

This cholesterol rebound was sharp, occurring twice as fast as their initial cholesterol drop.

A sharp rise in glucose levels followed by an abrupt drop indicates hyper - insulinism (better known as hypo - gylcemia).

Sharp's screenplays are marked by a narrative complexity and situations gravid with implication and doom.1 Take the moment in the Arthur Penn - helmed Night Moves where broken - down P.I. Harry Moseby (Gene Hackman, reuniting with Penn for the first time since Bonnie and Clyde), after discovering a body in a sunken wreck off the coast of Florida, watches as his two sleazeball hosts (John Crawford and Jennifer Warren)-- who've previously exchanged an odd nod and a knowing glance in which something is silently decided about how to handle this new, inquisitive element dropped in their midst — break into a broken tango to a tune on the radio.

Unmistakably a Pixar product (watch out for the Pizza Planet truck and customary John Ratzenberger cameo), the humour is as razor - sharp as ever and the animation at its most impressive and jaw dropping — particularly remarkable after the spacescapes of WALL - E.

The study, part of the Program on Education Policy and Governance Working Papers Series at Harvard University, found that students moving from grade 5 into middle school show a «sharp drop» in math and language arts achievement in the transition year that plagues them as far out as 10th grade, even risking thwarting their ability to graduate high school and...