Because exactly a year ago today, in the midst of the excitement over earnings reports, the market was just three trading days from topping out into the scary April-July correction of last year.
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Exactly a year ago today the stock market was celebrating first-quarter earnings reports, reaching for new highs, after recovering from a stumble in February on concerns about situations outside the U.S., notably rising inflation in Asia and the debt crisis in Europe.
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You know, I went back in the Wayback Machine to find out what we were doing a year ago, and I went on the blog, and a year ago today, we were just having our little morning meetings and the YouTube debates were up.
Rogers was the first in Canada to introduce LTE devices a year ago, and today, with six smartphones and mobile Internet devices, it has the largest selection of LTE devices in the country.
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And because we did, we can stand here just over a year later, and say that we prevented another depression, we broke the back of the recession, and the economy that was shrinking a year ago is growing today.
Total video views up from 50 million a year and a half ago to 290 million views today.
It was yesterday, it was a year ago, and it continues today.
This indicates that the market expected the economic recovery to gain momentum a year ago, but it does not today.
In contrast, Las Vegas and the seven California markets that round out the top-10 list all have far fewer reductions today than a year ago: in these metros, markdowns have become much harder to find.
But in the end, he made a great case for why the nVidia of today and company we thought we knew a year ago are vastly different.
Golf's first major championship of the year gets underway today with Phil Mickelson defending the title he won a year ago, and most eyes on Tiger Woods, who won the last two majors of 2006.
In Pennsylvania alone, there are 9, 000 fewer educators in our schools today than just a year ago.
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Japan's Financial Services Agency said in May the bad loan ratio at the country's 11 biggest banks had fallen from 5.18% a year ago to just 2.93% today.
"It is impossible to square the elation that we felt just a year ago with the grief that we feel today, " said Kate Kendell, head of the National Center for Lesbian Rights.
Moreover, the yuan has become more competitive thanks to a sharp fall in inflation: prices, which three years ago were rising by 27% a year, are falling today.
Fundamentally, Korea and Thailand are in far better shape today than they were a year ago.
More than 65% of relatively new fans of NASCAR are much more interested in the sport today than they were a year ago.
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Furthermore, 65% of those who have been fans for less than 5 years are more interested in NASCAR today than they were a year ago.
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Some say that top-line revenue growth has yet to improve, but with nominal GDP lower today than it was a year ago this is not a surprise.
The reasons that brought these two parties - the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats - together to work in the national interest is as strong today as it was a year ago.
"There are twice as many companies doing it today than there were a year ago, " says Mike Cyger , a former GE manager and founder of iSixSigma.com, a Web site devoted to business process improvement.
To be sure, vacancies in even relatively resilient sectors are less prevalent today than they were even a year ago.
Internet advertising revenues grew 15% in the second quarter from a year ago, according to the latest official tally released today.
And because we made those hard choices, our economy is in a different place today than it was just a year ago.
Now, partly as a result of these and other steps, we are in a very different place today than we were one year ago.
Similarly, the spread of the two-year Italian government bond over the German benchmark widened to about 130 basis points today from 102 basis points a week ago and 17 at the start of the year.
Schering-Plough at a meeting of analysts today reported second-quarter earnings of 43 cents per share, flat compared to a year ago.
"There is nothing new today that wasn't there a year ago or eight months ago and it was dealt with, " said Silver.
Americans are today where Tea Party supporters were a year ago: They want and demand a sea-change in how Washington spends our money.
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