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However, on the last day of the fund - flows week the Dow witnessed a 218 - point decline as Trump suggested he was considering a military strike in Syria after a suspected Assad - led chemical weapons attack in the rebel - held town of Douma over the weekend killed an estimated 43 civilians and injured hundreds more.

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At various points in the Clinton, Bush, Obama, and Trump administrations, new stock market records and historically low unemployment rates were used as a synonym for a booming economy, or after the financial crisis, to signal that the economy was recovering — even though many workers and households experienced stagnating or steadily declining incomes for years or even decades.

Analysts saw some weakness in the results, pointing to a decline in the profit margins on the wireless side, and Shammo's comment that the rate of device upgrades would be roughly the same as last year.

Ebooks are once again under the microscope as numerous reports point out their supposedly declining sales.

In order to get digital to the point where it is compensating for print's decline, the Times would have to add as many new subscribers this quarter as it did in the last quarter, and then do so again in the next quarter, and the one after that, and the one after that.

However analysts point to a bounce in Teva's shares over the past four months and a slowing in the rate of decline of U.S. generic drug prices as bright spots.

This documentary examines the world's diet and points to food choices as the culprits for declining health as well as a major cause of climate change.

Chobani's McGuinness pointed to too many products, too much duplication and imitation, as well as a lack of innovation in yogurt for declines in the category.

Exactly when things went off the rails is subject to debate, but many point to the controversial acquisition of Compaq Computer in 2001 by HP's then - CEO Carly Fiorina as the start of the decline.

U.S. stocks have opened the first full week of 2015 with a steep decline, with the Dow Jones industrial average dropping 331 points, as falling oil prices weighed on the energy sector.

As Spayd points out, with advertising declining as a revenue source, newspapers like the Times are becoming increasingly reliant on subscribers to pay for the company's journalisAs Spayd points out, with advertising declining as a revenue source, newspapers like the Times are becoming increasingly reliant on subscribers to pay for the company's journalisas a revenue source, newspapers like the Times are becoming increasingly reliant on subscribers to pay for the company's journalism.

Economy: Long term interest rates in both the US and Australia have declined sharply over the past week as the economic outlook in both Australia and US point to a slowdown in economic activity.

As Figure 2 shows, this decline is especially shocking because DLTR's business had been strong up to that point.

Coming off its biggest one - day decline since 2007, Shanghai's main share index seesawed throughout Tuesday — falling as much as 5 percent as trading opened and rising 1 percent at one point — to end down 1.7 percent.

He pointed to the sharp decline in oil prices, as well as manufacturing weakness.

The company's ROIC declined over the past several years, but it seems to have reached an inflection point, especially as global remittances look to reverse their recent downtrend in 2017.

I don't think any one institution or thing can be pointed to as the cause of decline in international adoptions, and honestly, maybe it's a good thing?

Many economists point to student debt as one of the factors in this decline.

The labour market had tightened as the unemployment rate had declined by around 3 percentage points in two years, and wage pressures were building.

Volume / mix declined 0.8 percentage points primarily due to lower shipments in infant nutrition in the UK and Italy as well as soup in the UK, partially offset by growth in beans in the UK as well as condiments and sauces across Europe.

As the loss on the Dow approached 100 points, I was struck by the sudden support and flattening out of the decline.

Male employment in Ontario followed a similar trajectory as manufacturing job declines, with only 80 percent of 25 - to 54 - year - old men holding a full - time job today, a full eight points lower than in 1980.

Sales of $ 2.180 billion were comparable to the prior year as a 1 - point benefit from the acquisition of Pacific Foods and a 1 - point favorable impact of currency translation were offset by a 2 - percent decline in organic sales driven primarily by lower volumes.

According to this model, a small amount of deceleration in credit growth can occur as additional credit efficiency is squeezed out of the system, but without a sharp decline in GDP growth, substantial and sustainable credit growth deceleration can not occur except after a major transformation of China's growth model, one condition of which is net wealth transfers from local governments to median households of at least one to two percentage points of GDP annually.

SG&A expenses declined 2 % or $ 70 million to $ 3.47 billion, or 27.7 % of sales, a decrease of 50 basis points as a percentage of sales compared to last year.

Reuters cited «a disappointing outlook from Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO)» as one of the factors weighing on the market this morning, but as I pointed out in my review of Cisco's fiscal second - quarter earnings, the outlook wasn't disappointing and today's decline in the stock looks like a buying opportunity for long - term, value - oriented investors.

It's still not great, of course, and as far as traditional equities markets go, a cost 50 % decline is a disaster, but in the cryptocurrency markets, and especially against the backdrop of the bloodbath we have seen across other points over the last few weeks, it's a drop in the ocean.

As Wolf Richter pointed out for Wolf Street earlier this month: «Since mid-December 2016, the Fed has hiked rates four times, in total by 1 percentage point, but over the same period, junk bond yields rated CCC or below have declined 1.5 percentage points as the bonds have rallied.&raquAs Wolf Richter pointed out for Wolf Street earlier this month: «Since mid-December 2016, the Fed has hiked rates four times, in total by 1 percentage point, but over the same period, junk bond yields rated CCC or below have declined 1.5 percentage points as the bonds have rallied.&raquas the bonds have rallied.»

Policy rates were also lowered by 300 basis points in Turkey as inflation in that country continues to decline from high levels.

They confirmed, at that point, a picture of very strong business investment; declining government investment, as earlier fiscal stimulus is unwound; relatively flat dwelling investment; and weak commercial construction.

As Forbes points out, a decline in Midtown Manhattan real estate automatically translated to a decline in Trump's wealth.

Fading a breakout means selling into the breakout and expecting it to be false and return either back into a sideways trend or peak and decline from that point as all the buyers that were going to buy a stock are done.

Wednesday's financial results won't be rosy, as print advertising decline swamps all of the other revenue progress Griffin will be able to yet point to.

The 0.3 percentage point increase in headline CPI between December and January largely reflected the 0.25 percentage point higher contribution from energy prices as they swung from a decline in December to an increase in January.

UBS analysts pinpointed a key abnormality in last week's correction: «a U.S. equity decline of 7.4 %, as seen over the last five working days, has historically been associated with a high yield spread widening of 75 — 80 basis points... The actual move has only been 21 basis points.»

The only thing that will save the dollar is if its continued decline leads emerging market nations to impose capital controls as they reach the point where adding further to record foreign currency reserves is not productive, according to Gilmore.

They jumped by $ 0.81 per foot to $ 43.09 per square foot, as the availability rate declined slightly by 0.1 point to 8.2 percent, according to the Colliers data.

However, in the short term bonds are likely to benefit from lower CPI inflation rates as my leading indicator, the absolute change in oil prices from a year ago, is pointing to the U.S. CPI ex shelter declining to between 2 and 2.5 % in February / March.

When Q3 results are released, a decline in margins could be the tipping point that sends shares sliding as the market realizes that even Tesla's GAAP profitability can be an illusion; simply a posturing for future capital raises.

The coin is near the declining trendline as well, and while we can't conclude a trend change, the long - term setup points to a durable upswing.

As a result, the unemployment rate, which is derived from the household survey, has fallen by about 1/2 a percentage point from its recent peak, although this decline is also partly explained by a large fall in the participation rate.

«For most people and nonprofit institutions, rebalancing makes sense as a control for risk,» Kass said, pointing out that the Dow Jones industrial average declined 55 percent between October 2007 and March 2009.

So, even though I fully realize that at this point declining to give my full name will be interpreted as actually having something to hide (I really do not), I guess I just don't feel safe enough with those of you here to risk it anymore.

The Protestant vote declined by one point as a percentage of the electorate between 2012 and 2016, for a total of 52 percent of the overall vote.

A sociologist like William Julius Wilson can underline the importance of economic factors, pointing to the precipitous decline in manufacturing, and at the same time write frankly about the destructive influence of ghetto culture which lacks a viable middle class that once served as a «social buffer.

Pointing to such factors as a low minimum wage, the declining number of well - paying manufacturing jobs, and the continuing segregation of jobs by race and sex, they argue that the central issue is the availability and quality of work.

Similarly, to turn Augustine's poetic prose into verse, as Boulding does at several points, is to impose on the reader a literary self - consciousness that Augustine knew well but declined to use.

As Time points out, part of the decline may come from the Vatican's scrutiny of American nuns.

Children are increasingly viewed as a limitation upon individual freedom, even to the point of justifying widespread infanticide under the banner of «choice,» while overall birthrates decline across the developed world.

I find it disappointing that the author, while doing a fine job of pointing out the shortcomings and weaknesses of post modernism, offers as an alternative the flawed and rightfully declining faith - without - evidence world of organized religion.