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Money continued to invest along the same $1. 2 billion-to-$1. 4 billion a year range, and returns fell off a cliff.

Sales at U. S. stores open at least a year fell 1. 8 percent in the quarter ended Jan. 28, Wal-Mart said in a statement today.

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Revenue at stores open at least a year fell 4 percent in the 11 weeks to Jan. 18, the London-based retailer said.

Spot gold in London fell to $1, 523 a troy ounce, the weakest since July and down nearly $400 from a nominal record reached this year.

The Micex fell 1. 6 percent today and the ruble dropped as much as 0. 9 percent to its weakest level against the dollar in a week.

BYD, partially owned by investor Warren Buffett, said its car sales in January fell 15% to 52, 054 vehicles compared with a year earlier.

Chinese exports fell 2. 8 per cent in December, at least one percentage point less than expected, Dow Jones reported on Saturday.

The company reported in April that its first-quarter profit fell 31% from a year earlier to $1. 95 billion on revenue of $36. 6 billion.

Enough rain fell over 48 hours in Brisbane, the state's capital, to supply drinking water for more than a year.

The short-term policy interest rate fell by an average of about 20 basis points for a fiscal consolidation worth 1% of GDP.

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The U. S. unemployment rate is expected to edge up to 10. 1 percent in December after it unexpectedly fell to 10 percent the month before.

The S& P financials sector fell 2. 1 per cent and is now at its lowest level in two years.

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It fell 5. 1% on Monday to its lowest close in more than a year.

In total, net debt (excluding shareholder loans) fell by almost half in a year, to $1. 8bn.

The consumer price index fell 1. 7 percent in November, the Labor Department said, the second consecutive record-setting monthly drop.

Latin America's rich were the least affected: they lost 6% of their wealth, and the number there fell by less than 1%.

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But the average house price in 70 of China's cities fell by 0. 1% in June from a month earlier, the first decline for well over a year.

After touching a one-year high Wednesday, prices fell back amid a commodities selloff and a stronger dollar.

U. S. retail Mac sales, which had surged this year, fell 1% in November.

China's Shanghai Composite fell nearly 3% Monday and is now down more than 1% for the year.

Actual foreign direct investment (FDI) in Indonesia fell 44 per cent to $4. 3bn in the January-September period from a year ago.

Morgan Stanley's headline profit fell by 67% compared with a year earlier and at Goldman Sachs net income was down by 40%, to $1. 9 billion.

In May, spending by Chinese and other foreign tourists rose 50% from a year earlier, while overall sales fell 2. 1% from the previous year.

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The Philippines reported that exports in February fell by 39. 1 per cent from a year earlier.

Hourly earnings did not grow, so the yearly increase fell back to 1. 7%.

In October alone private residential-construction spending fell by 1. 9%; it was 9. 4% lower than a year before.

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The indicator failed in 2003 and 2005 as well, when the Dow fell in January and rose in the rest of the year.

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Citi fell $1. 83, or 4. 9 percent, to $35. 90 and was the steepest decliner among the 30 stocks that make up the Dow industrials.

Downstream earnings also fell, to $1. 65bn from $2. 16bn a year ago, mainly due to lower refining margins.

On a trade-weighted basis, the pound fell nearly 2 per cent, taking it to its weakest level since January 1997.

Consumer spending fell in real terms in July, retail sales were weak and unemployment shot up to 6. 1 per cent.

The firm has weathered the recession well: sales fell by just 1% in the year to the end of May, compared with the previous year.

Since the listing, Sinopharm's stock has risen 73%, although shares fell 2. 1% Friday in an overall down market.

Barclays shares fell as low as 51p in January on fears that it would join the list of UK banks needing a government bail-out.

Porsche AG's sales fell by half last month from a year earlier, to 1, 427 vehicles.

In fact, income earners ranked in the top 1% enjoyed significant increases in wealth even as the middle class fell into decline.

But figures out on October 29th showed that it actually fell at an annual rate of 1. 7% in the third quarter.

January was the third month in a row in which Chinese exports fell.

Closer to home, the Energy Department said the nation's crude supplies fell 1. 7 million barrels to 363. 8 million barrels last week.

The Lunar New Year holiday, which fell during February this year, likely contributed to slower sales growth last month.

All unfilled orders for durable goods have been down for the last half year and fell 1. 4 percent in March.

This has dimmed South-Sea pearls' glow: the value of the harvest at the farm gate fell from $220m to $172m over the same period.

The S&P 500 ended the day slightly higher and the dollar, measured by an index of trading partners' currencies, fell back by 0. 1 per cent.

In rural ares education became virtually inaccessible, especially for girls, and in some places female literacy fell to less than 1%.

Maternal mortality fell by only about 1% a year in Tanzania in 2000-08, even though the economy grew 7% a year.

A climber who fell 1, 000 feet (305 meters) down a mountain and survived was found by his rescuers standing up reading a map.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average, down 2. 1%, fell into negative territory for the year during early afternoon trading in New York.

South Korea's Kospi stock market index fell almost 1% on Wednesday, a day when most other markets in Asia posted solid gains.

Demand for oil in July fell five per cent from the previous month, and is up just two per cent year on year, according to Deutsche Bank.

Industrial production in Britain fell by 0. 5% in July, leaving it 1. 9% below its level a year earlier.

Manufacturing employment in Europe fell for the 20th successive month in January.

The Australian dollar, seen as the closest proxy for China's economy, fell 1. 8% against the greenback in midday trading.

Tax burdens on the rich have fallen (see chart 1). Across the OECD the average top marginal rate fell by nearly 11 percentage points.

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Its giving fell 1. 4 per cent in 2008, so requiring a 153 per cent increase over the next two years.

Against the U. S. dollar, the euro fell below $1. 30 Friday, marking a drop of nearly 9% since early November.

Overseas shipments fell 17. 5 percent in January from a year earlier and imports declined 43. 1 percent.

In London, the FTSE 100 lost 1. 7 per cent as banks, airlines and travel stocks fell.

Its smaller rival Compal said first-quarter net profit fell 13% to NT$2. 80 billion from NT$3. 21 billion a year earlier.

Reports elsewhere suggest that the travel guide book market fell 18. 1% in the UK, US and Australia during the year.

The contract for August delivery traded on Comex fell 8. 1% last week on concerns about U. S. growth and government-debt problems in Europe.

The median new-home price fell 9. 1% from a year earlier and inventories narrowed by 7. 3%.

During the darkest days of the financial crisis, the value of GGP's unsecured debt fell below 10 cents on the dollar.

Following its liquidity crisis and government rescue in 2008, the value of its common shares fell to a low of $1 billion in March 2009.

The FTSE All-World index, which fell below its January starting point in June, ended the year 20 per cent higher in dollar terms.

They fell 5. 1% and 2. 9%, respectively, amid reports that Chinese officials were moving to clamp down on the lending boom there.

At the same time, the euro for the European debt crisis resolution still lack of details package fell, the dollar fell more than 1%.

The S& P investment bank index fell 1. 6 per cent and was near its lows for the year set in March.

The MSCI index of other Asian shares fell 1. 2 percent in midmorning trade, taking its losses so far this year to just under 15 percent.

None of the 1, 716 stocks traded on the Shanghai and Shenzhen markets fell Thursday.

Net sales fell 8% to SEK48 billion, against SEK52. 1 billion a year ago, also below forecasts.

Figures published yesterday showed crude steel output for June, on a daily average basis, fell 1 per cent from May.

The front month contract, for October delivery, fell 60 cents to settle at $1, 615. 50 a troy ounce.

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The Case-Shiller index of U. S. national house prices fell again in the first quarter, S&P reported Tuesday.

But annual growth rates began to fall in 2001 and fell below 1% in 2008, through August.

This year the most commonly cited is the National Retail Federation forecasts this year's shopping season sales fell 1%.

Last month sales of cars and light trucks in America fell by 35. 5% compared with a year ago (see chart 1).

Nonetheless, the unemployment rate remained at 9. 1%, as jobs barely kept pace with labour force growth; and manufacturing employment fell.

South Korea said yesterday its overall exports fell less rapidly in February than in January.

A report Thursday by a private trade group found sales of previously owned homes fell 5. 1 percent from May to June.

The dollar fell nearly 1% against a broad basket of currencies this week, following a drop of similar size last week.

Its GDP fell by 1% in the year to the third quarter, dragged down both by a collapse in exports and by weak domestic demand.

By November 2007, as the crisis became evident across the banking system the dollar fell to 1. 48 to the euro.

In contrast, SG&A costs rose at telecommunications companies and fell only 1% at consumer staples names.

Asia's emerging economies probably grew at an average annualised rate of over 10% in the second quarter, while America's GDP fell by 1%.

Yet the yield on ten-year Japanese government bonds fell below 1% in the summer, and the yen soared against other currencies.

The dollar fell 1. 3 per cent against the euro as headlines saying "Geithner open to SDR currency" flashed across traders' screens.

Chinese stocks fell sharply after that report, with the Shanghai Composite dropping 2. 9%, its biggest loss since late January.

But the company said net outflows in its mutual funds fell to $5. 1 billion from $18. 7 billion in the quarter ended December 31.

And most of those who fell off were right at $1 billion last year, so they wouldn't have had to lose much to fall below that threshold.

Shares of homebuilders including D. R. Horton Inc. and PulteGroup Inc. fell about 1 percent following the disappointing housing report.

European stock markets, the British FTSE 100 index fell 1. 2 percent, banking and mining plate lower plate.

Energy efficiency is critical and China has delivered on this front: Between 1994 and 2008, calories burned per dollar of GDP fell 41%.

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Japan's fertility rate -- the average number of children a woman bears in her lifetime -- fell to an all-time low of 1. 25 last year.

To reflect changes in inflation as an indicator, the quarter GDP deflator fell by 1. 6 percent year-on-year.

Last week, the dollar fell below seven yuan, the lowest since China ended the yuan's peg to the dollar in 2005 .

In the Great Depression average prices in America fell by one-quarter, and nominal GDP ended up shrinking by almost half.

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The euro fell to a 10-week low, and was below $1. 30 in late New York trading.

Exports to America fell by 6. 1%; those to the ASEAN countries, which had grown by 21. 5% in October, fell by 2. 4%.

Revenue fell more than 90% to $9. 1 million, from $97. 2 million a year earlier.

In July, the FTSE Europe ex-UK index fell 1. 4% in local currency terms as Eurozone economic data pointed towards further weakness.

Brazilian industrial production actually fell 1. 6% in June from May for the first time since the 2008 global financial crisis.

Overall, weekday circulation at US daily newspapers fell 2. 1 percent during the same reporting period.

The euro fell against the dollar after the cut and the following news conference to a five-week low of $1. 3028.

While share prices fell, the NT dollar continued its appreciation against its US counterpart, rising to around NT$29. 2 to US$1.

In Canada there was also a fall, of about 1. 5million users, while in Russia and Norway numbers also fell by more than 100, 000 users.

The Euro Stoxx Banks index fell almost 1% last week and is down 3% over the past month.

The Dow Jones industrial average fell 102 points in early morning trading. Broader indexes also fell more than 1 percent.

Tokyo's Nikkei shares index climbed more than 3 per cent ahead of the BoJ announcement, but fell back to close up 1. 8 per cent.

Three stocks rose for every stock that fell on the region's 22 benchmarks; only Vietnam closed down.

Following that news, the euro fell to a one-year low of below $1. 312. It has since recovered to $1. 323.

Shipments of capital goods fell 1. 5% on a core basis, which excludes aircraft and defense spending, while orders tumbled 8%.

A gauge of the region's banks fell 1. 5 percent, among the worst performers in the Stoxx 600.

The average rate on a five-year adjustable-rate mortgage fell to 3. 18 percent, its lowest level on records that go back to January 2005.

Industrial production in the euro area rose by 1. 1% in August, following three consecutive months when it fell.

China's growth rate fell to 6. 1% in the year to the first quarter, less than half its pace in mid-2007.

Shares in the fast-food chain, whose third-quarter profit matched Wall Street's expectations, fell 1. 9 percent in extended trading.

The FTSE fell by 85 points, or 1. 6%, in the first few minutes of trading in London this morning.

The total claiming Jobseeker's Allowance fell by 10, 200 last month to 1. 45 million, the biggest reduction since last June.

The number of out-of-school children of primary school age fell from 106 million in 1999 to 68 million in 2008.

Transaction volume of houses in Beijing fell by about 70% from last month during the first 3 weeks in January.

Revenue rose to $16 billion from $14. 5 billion, but average selling prices fell 7. 5 percent to $1, 480 per unit from a year earlier.

Industrial production fell by 1. 6% in November, following similarly large drops in the previous two months.

Gross domestic product fell an annualized 1. 1% in the fourth quarter compared with the previous period.

But then in September, market volatility spiked to record levels as the liquidity crisis deepened and the S&P 500 fell sharply by 9. 1%.

The consumer price index fell 1 per cent in October after being unchanged in September.

U. S. crude oil fell by $1. 05 to $96. 65 per barrel in early Asian trade on a stronger dollar due to renewed concerns over euro zone debt.

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The Shanghai Composite fell 1. 1% today, its third straight loss, Bespoke Investment Group notes.

Housing starts in November fell to a unit rate of 1. 19 million.

The trend shows no signs of letting up: In the second quarter of 2007, desktops fell 4. 8 percent and laptops 3. 1 percent.

The amount of this paper outstanding fell to $763 billion as of Dec. 19 from a peak of almost $1. 2 trillion in August.

Still, overall retail sales fell for the 13th straight month in September, with a 1. 4% year-on-year drop, the government said Wednesday.

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Core consumer prices, which exclude volatile fresh-food prices, fell by 0. 1% in the year to July.

Figures released on June 1st showed that consumer spending fell by 0. 1% in April, taking the saving rate up to 5. 7%, a 14-year high.

Its stock plunged 62%, revenue fell 31% and the company posted a $1. 1 billion loss in the fiscal year ended Oct.

U. S. consumer prices actually fell 0. 1% in April from the previous month, the Labor Department reported.

The pound fell by more than half a cent against the dollar today, to $1. 5667 by midday.

Imports of goods and services fell 1. 9 per cent to $188bn, a drop partly attributed to a weaker US dollar.

As a result of Europe's vineyard reduction program, the global area under vine fell by 1. 2% in 2009.

In October, sales of existing homes fell 2. 2 percent to a 4. 43 million unit annual rate. Economists had expected only a 1 percent drop.

But in Europe, the FTSE Eurofirst 300 fell 1. 5 per cent, amid weakness for banking stocks, carmakers and steel producers.

Spanish core CPI, which excludes unprocessed food and energy products, fell by 0. 1% year on year in April.

America managed 2. 9%. Growth in the rest of the euro zone probably fell short of 1%.

Gold prices rose more than 1 percent as the dollar fell.

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That FDI fell from nearly $2 trillion in 2007 to $1 trillion in 2009 can be put down to the global financial crisis.

His 42-year-old brother, a resident of Hanoi, developed symptoms on 10 January, nine days after his brother fell ill.

That argument got a mild boost overnight when the HSBC preliminary purchasing manager's index for May fell to 51. 1, a 10-month low.

EARLIER this week we learned that China's trade surplus fell sharply in November, to just $13. 1 billion.

South Korea's benchmark stock index fell 1. 8%, slightly outpacing drops in other Asian markets.

Profit from underwriting insurance policies fell 70 percent to $181 million.

First-time claims fell to 451, 000 last week from a revised 478, 000 a week earlier.

Ma notes that certain key produce prices fell by about 1% in early August, and thus the central bank "doesn't need to overreact. "

GFMS' gold survey showed that jewelry demand fell 20 percent to 1, 759 tonnes due to weak consumption during a recession.

Orders for capital goods, excluding aircraft and defence, fell by 5. 1% in October, the first drop in six months.

And in past US recessions, the IMF found that for every percentage point drop in US GDP growth, Asia's GDP growth fell by 0. 28 per cent.

The Shanghai composite briefly fell below 1, 000 and many thought its pulse would stop soon afterwards.

The institute said that imports into both the US and European Union fell in the three months to January.

But these fell by 1. 9% in February, bringing them closer to glummer private-sector estimates.

U. S. exports rose slightly in September, a third consecutive monthly gain. Imports fell 1. 0 percent.

The US dollar fell to $1. 4890 against the euro, its weakest level in seven weeks.

Meanwhile, Oracle disclosed Tuesday that Mr. Ellison's compensation fell 17% for the year ended May 31 to $70. 1 million.

The Fed said home-mortgage debt fell an annualized 1. 5% during the quarter.

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Australia's All Ordinaries hit record highs midweek, but fell back on Friday to end 1. 5% higher.

Last month prices fell 0. 1 per cent owing to weak energy and food prices following two months of increases.

America's biggest chemical company made a quarterly net loss of $1. 6 billion as demand for its products fell among manufacturers.

On Aug. 30, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 1. 4% after personal-income data came in weaker than expected.

Investors' average targeted gross room revenue multiplier (GRRM) fell from 3. 1x in the previous survey to its current level of 2. 7x.

Nine percent of Canadians live below the poverty line and the unemployment rate recently fell to 7. 1 percent.

Sales fell 1. 1 per cent from February, with declines in every category apart from food and health.

Energy consumption per unit of GDP fell 19. 1%, within spitting distance of the 20% target.

Goldman Sachs Group fell 4. 1%, despite reporting stronger-than-expected earnings before the bell.

The increase comes after filings fell 10% in January.

Shares in Heritage fell 1. 2%, with most other stocks in the sector trading modestly lower.

Shares in Hyundai Motor fell 1. 2 percent to close at 169, 000 won Thursday. The company's share price tripled in 2009.

Consumer price inflation fell to 4. 6 per cent in December, after reaching a more than two-year high of 5. 1 per cent the previous month.

Confusingly, even as median incomes rose, median earnings for full-time workers fell by about 1% between 2005 and 2006.

Meanwhile, US consumer confidence fell to a new low in February, sinking to 25 from 37. 4 in January.

Real GDP fell by 4. 9% year on year in April-June, compared with a drop of 7. 1% in the previous quarter.

In recent years, January hasn't been good for stocks, with 2010 likely to mark the third straight year that stocks fell in the month.

Shares were down sharply overseas. The Euro Stoxx 50, which tracks blue chip companies in countries that use the euro, fell 1. 5 percent.

Ericsson AB fell 1. 2 percent as Goldman Sachs Group Inc. downgraded the world's biggest maker of mobile-phone networks.

Snow fell on January 26 on Saint-Petersburg, and temperatures dropped to minus 11 degrees Celcius (13 degrees Farenheit).

Tokyo's main stock index fell following the news, ending down 1. 7%.

Five cities experienced monthly price declines of greater than 1%, and in Phoenix values fell 2. 2% just from July to August.

Personal-income data also fell 1. 3% in June, the largest single-month drop in four years.

Utility output fell 1. 9 percent as mild weather doused demand for energy, analysts said.

The NASDAQ Index fell close to 1, 000 in 2002, wiping out $5 trillion in investors' "paper" profits.

The mood, at a popular level, was also soured when, in January, several Japanese fell ill after eating frozen gyoza dumplings made in China.

Clinton Cards, the UK card retailer, reported that like-for-like sales of its brand fell 7. 1 per cent in the 16 weeks to November 16.

For the second day running the 30-year bond price fell more than a point, and the yield rose to a high of 4. 92 per cent.

In Germany, prices fell by just 1. 5% over the year.

GDP fell by 1. 9% in the first quarter of 2009 and was 4. 1% down on the first quarter of 2008.

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Chinese exports fell 18% and imports 43% in the year to January.

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Markets in Asia fell Tuesday morning, with the Nikkei average down 1. 4%.

The share of India's population living on less than $1 a day fell from 42% in 1993 to 35% in 2004.

During the same period, Google's share of the market fell to 26. 1% from 26. 8% in the first quarter, Analysys said.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 1. 3% to end the week at 12638. 74, despite a rally Friday on a stronger-than-expected jobs report.

Yesterday crude oil fell to a $53. 30 a barrel, its lowest since January 2007.

Meanwhile, the Commerce Department said Tuesday that consumer spending rose 0. 4% in June. But adjusted for inflation, it fell 0. 1%.

The Nikkei 225 stock average fell 1. 7 percent in Tokyo, where Prime Minister Naoto Kan won a no-confidence vote in Parliament.

The shared currency fell to as low as 102 yen Thursday, the weakest in more than 10 years.

Sporting events were thrown off schedule as some 46 millimetres (1. 8 inches) of rain fell in the first week of the games.

The Dow rose or fell more than 1% in 24 out of the past 38 trading days.

Gold, a traditional haven that struck record highs amid the uncertainty of the past weeks, fell 1 percent to $1, 610 an ounce.

Mr Grubb said most of the buying was after prices fell sharply to $1, 534.

Churn among contract customers fell to 1. 09% for the quarter.

The dollar also fell to Y108. 27, its weakest level since May 2005 against the Japanese currency.

Pepsi also cut its 2011 earnings forecast and offered a dim view of the economy. Its stock fell 1 percent.

U. S. household debt fell 1. 7% in 2009 - the first annual drop since the Fed's records began in 1945.

The core index, which excludes volatile food and energy costs, fell 0. 1%.

In Germany, the growth rate fell below 1% only once.

The euro is considered a measure of investor confidence in the EU indicators, fell to 1. 20 U.

Crude futures fell $1. 04 a barrel, or 1. 2%, to $87. 56 yesterday on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Oil is up 43% so far this year.

February home sales in California fell 3. 8% from a year earlier to 28, 111 sales, but were up 0. 9% from January 2010, DataQuick said.

It announced a "minimum" exchange rate target of 1. 20 francs per euro ( here is the announcement) and the markets fell into line.

German exports fell in July by 1. 5% compared with the previous month.

New orders for non-defense capital goods excluding aircraft, which is a robust gauge of investment fell 1. 8%.

Retail sales fell 1. 2 percent in September, double the expected decline.

Revenue from the unit that sells the Windows operating system software fell 1 percent, to $4. 74 billion.

Overall sales fell to 9. 1 million vehicles on the annualized basis tracked by analysts, the lowest level on that basis since December 1981.

Shares of Imperial Tobacco fell 1. 8% and those of British American Tobacco slipped 1.

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Another explanation is that Chinese investors are at last questioning the stockmarket's euphoria; its index fell almost 5% on January 31st.

After dropping 43 per cent in January, Chinese imports fell 24 per cent last month.

China fell back behind India as the world's largest gold market. Indian gold demand rose 9 per cent to 223. 1 tonnes.

National chain-store sales fell 1. 6% in the first three weeks of July versus the previous month, according to Redbook Research.

GlaxoSmithKline, the U. K. 's largest drugmaker, fell 2. 2 percent to 1, 263 pence.

The South African rand fell more than 1%.