It was an eager seller of mortgage securities during the boom, even as its traders were betting on a market slump, fuelling the same allegations of duplicity that Goldman Sachs has faced.
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Even as Europe seems to be sliding into a genuine handset market slump, China is still acting as a counterbalance, continuing to beat handset and particularly 3G device volume sales projections made at the beginning of 2011.
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While economic growth roared ahead at a rate approaching 5% in the summer, many economists believe it has slowed dramatically in the current quarter from the combined blows a severe slump in the housing market, a related reduction in the availability of loans and rising energy prices.
Jeep and Aston Martin are among many foreign automakers hoping to woo hundreds of thousands of Chinese consumers visiting the show this week, especially as China has become the world's largest auto market amid a sales slump in Europe and tepid growth in the United States.
The over-regulated and over-subsidised housing market is in a slump, trapping 500, 000 households in negative equity.
The health of the national housing market remained in a slump according to an unchanged reading from the NAHB for May.
The mobile market always experiences a slump after the holiday rush, and the decline from the December quarter's sales of 36.2bn kronor could be as much as 30%.
Hopes of a rebound have helped boost the Dow by a quarter since the market touched the bottom of a three-year slump in mid-March.
Its business is tied to the strength of the U.S. housing market, which has been coming to life after a multiyear slump that dragged down prices and kept buyers from the market.
We believe that paying the price for power as stipulated in the contract is no longer possible for Rio as it battles a prolonged slump in the aluminium market.
The idea of rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure and creating lots of jobs for construction workers sidelined by the housing market slump sure seemed like a good one.
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Has the market broken out of a short term slump?
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Its survey of European property suggests that far more Spanish houses were being built last year than are likely to be needed in steady market conditions, let alone a slump.
More data pointed to a deepening slump in America's housing market .
This opens the door to new approaches for inventing and testing new medicines, just as the number of new drugs reaching the market is at the nadir of a multi-year slump.
The March consumer confidence reading, meanwhile, checked in at a four-month low, while the housing market continues to slump.
And the European firm is also winning more orders in a market beginning to show signs of revival after two years of slump.
The collateral damage from the housing market is already baked in the cake: Expect a continued slump in residential construction activity and employment, lower house prices that will force more subprime lenders to the wall and put strains on the most leveraged parts of the financial system and a slowdown in consumption expenditures.
Add to that anxiety about weakened growth in China and the slump in consumer confidence, and you have a skittish market.
Since the beginning of the year, Merck has had a boost in Zocor sales, and Lipitor has seen its market share slump slightly.
Yahoo's stock declined after hours on the announcement, after trading in a downward slump during the day, along with most of the market.
Just ask Newell Rubbermaid, the maker of cleaning products and other consumer staples that hit a slump in the late 1990s, about Wal-Mart's market power.
Just ask Newell Rubbermaid (nyse: NWL - news - people ), the maker of cleaning products and other consumer staples that hit a slump in the late 1990s, about Wal-Mart's market power.
The results capped a record year for the bank, which still generated a 33 percent return on equity despite the turmoil in credit markets and a slump in leveraged buyout activity, as Goldman escaped most of the bond market turmoil plaguing fellow brokers.
The bullish bond market tone emanating from the report also sent shock through credit markets and caused a slump in recently rejuvenated benchmark stock indices.
In a tragic twist, New York's commercial-property market also looks like another winner: it had been on the point of a slump, but has now been revived by the attacks.
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This is partly because the European handset market already shows some warnings signs of repeating the 2008 summer slump, which later metastasized into a sharp global phone volume contraction by Q4 2008 and Q1 2009.
The global market did slide 7% in the first quarter of 2013, and that decline was caused by a slump in China.
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Roughly speaking, Stubelt sees as much as a half a billion dollars available in the market as more teams upgrade, what he calls "annuity money, " a modest hedge against the consumer slump.
An earlier portrait of the second quarter's tablet market share made it quite clear that the iPad was on a rebound, if it was ever in a slump to start with.
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