"It's the first day of the month and in today's market it's really about the month-to-month gain, " Rueckert said.
Below is a table showing all instances since 1980 where the index fell at least 1.5% on the first day of the month.
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"It'll probably mean that rather than being gone by lunchtime on the first day of the month, the grants are gone by 3 o'clock in the afternoon of the first day, " observed Dr Hinnells.
Last week most of the gain took place on Monday, the last day of January, and only the first day of the new month (Feb).
Finally, the LIBOR 6 month rates on the first business day of each month are, the great majority of the time, higher than the five-day running average of the LIBOR 6 month rate surrounding the first business day submissions throughout the Class Period.
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When the last day of a month falls on a weekend, auto makers typically count all weekend sales in their previous month's totals including cars sold on the first day of the new month.
Is it significant that it was the first trading day of the new month?
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According to lawsuit, for at least 10 years between 2000 and 2009 the banks conspired to falsely increase the Libor on the first day of each month for the purpose of increasing the rates on homeowners mortgages.
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The Qiang New Year Festival, held on the first day of the tenth lunar month, is an occasion for the Qiang people of China's Sichuan Province to offer thanks and worship to heaven for prosperity, reaffirm their harmonious and respectful relationship with nature, and promote social and family harmony.
Throughout the Class Period, the LIBOR 6 month rates on the first business day of each month are, on average, more than two basis points higher than the average LIBOR 6 month rates throughout the Class Period.
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Additionally, from August, 2007 through February, 2009, the LIBOR 6 month rates on the first business day of each month are, on average, more than seven and one-half basis points higher than the average LIBOR 6 month rates.
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And the Bolton story comes on the first day of August, the one month of the year when Washington tries not to make news.
The gains on just the first four days, and the last day of the month totaled 29.8 points.
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The problem, say plaintiffs in the suit, is that banks were submitting artificially inflated Libor rates around the first day of each month in order to push their mortgage rates higher and make bigger profits.
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Elsewhere Mr Badnarik has promised, if elected, to wear his handgun during state-of-the-union addresses, blow up empty United Nations buildings and require violent criminals to lie in bed all day for the first month of their incarceration.
But the gains on just the first four days of the month, and the last day of the month, totaled 29.8 points.
Khamenei, speaking on the first day of Eid al-Fitr, a festive end to the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, countered by comparing Obama to his predecessor.
On the first day of school earlier this month, Mr. Bloomberg announced a new text-messaging system that allows parents to receive reminders about things such as school-lunch menus, test and report-card dates, as well as applications for free and reduced-price lunch.
In that month, Bergkamp became the first player in 25 years to score the first, second and third goals in BBC's Match of the Day Goal of the Month competition.
Launched in September 2005, Netvibes attracted 15, 000 users on the first day and has since grown quickly: the number of users is expected to exceed 10m this month.
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Over the first month and a half of the season, there were more than nine new injuries per day up from seven per day during the 2010 and 2011 campaigns, according to Doug VanDerwerken, a Duke Ph.
Bonds filed for free agency last month on the first possible day after the World Series ended with Boston's sweep of the Colorado Rockies -- severing his tenure with San Francisco.
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