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If the tightening does not happen it will not be due to any easing by the chancellor, but to an even worse than expected growth performance.

They have done so despite terrible news on earnings, dividends and defaults, which were all worse than expected in January.

The disappearance of a federal tax credit for home buying led to a worse-than-expected decline in May U. S. home sales.

Take snowfall futures, designed so that cities or companies get a pay-out if winter snowfall turns out to be worse than expected.

The gains made Monday almost wiped out a 1. 1% loss in Friday's session after the release of worse-than-expected jobs data from the U. S.

In the next few months, the flow of macroeconomic and earnings news will be much worse than expected.

Both figures were worse than expected and new projections show unemployment rising for the rest of the year.

Hynix's net loss was much worse than expected as it reflected the cost of closing its unprofitable U. S. plant.

China's exports plunge continues to be worse than expected, impeding recovery for the first major economy to emerge from the global slump.

The American company released worse-than-expected third-quarter results last week and cut its sales forecast for the year.

They were dragged down by worse-than-expected bad debts in its small business unit that spooked investors.

These figures are a little worse than expected, but they aren't particularly surprising.

A slightly worse-than-expected revision to the nation's fourth-quarter gross domestic product had little effect on trading.

Online retail giant Amazon has announced a sharp fall in profits and warned about worse than expected results this year.

By using previous results in Thomson's database, the computer stories say whether a company has done better or worse than expected.

The performance was worse than expected by analysts, hit by weak demand and restructuring charges.

Indeed, Tuesday's worse-than-expected consumer confidence data in the US suggest optimism may now be ebbing away.

"The hotel showers were much worse than expected, " I replied.

Europe's industrial production in June turned out considerably worse than expected.

Now they have learnt the awful truth, they may decide to save a lot more, making the recession even worse than expected.

It's a holiday weekend, liquidity is low and people now are betting tomorrow's jobs numbers will be worse than expected.

U. S. unemployment has been worse than expected, while housing demand was disappointingly weak.

Employment data released this month showed worse-than-expected job losses.

Friday's closely watched payroll numbers were worse than expected.

Worse-than-expected economic growth added to the dollar's woes.

Both figures were worse than expected.

Nike reported a worse-than-expected global decline in forward orders, sending its shares down 4. 6 percent.

The figures are much worse than expected.

The past two months of revisions were worse than expected.

By comparison, of the 647, 942 who took exams in mixed-sex schools, 20% did worse than expected.

The net loss narrowed by 18 per cent from the same period last year but was still worse than expected by most analysts.

The first climate-change bill with a chance of passing is weaker and worse than expected

Worse than expected