Remember, the negative number has come before the fiscal cliff, sequester and government spending cuts.
The silver lining to the housing bubble was the easy money, where anyone with a pulse and a credit score hovering just above a negative number could get a no documentation mortgage.
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Not too long ago in light of the Rafalca story, the Romney Olympic dancing horse, I described the hoops that an individual has to jump through in order to post a negative number on a Form 1040.
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See that negative number on Line 17.
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If you have transferred money into or out of your account since the last entry, enter the amount in column C, using a positive number for money added to the account, or a negative number for money withdrawn.
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Leigh Caldwell points out that anyone in the bottom 20% has more wealth than the bottom 20% combined, since they all have negative wealth, and no individual negative number in a group can be less than the sum of a whole group of negative numbers.
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Therefore, one might have expected to see another run for the roses Tuesday after Factory Orders came in with a plus sign instead of the negative number that had been anticipated and it was reported that U.S. Auto Sales rose for the eleventh straight month.
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On the other hand, continued large investment gains helped 12 charities generate a negative index number--surpluses exceeding all donations for the reporting year.
Their expectations for house prices over the next three months remained negative and the number of sales were also predicted to fall.
The number of negative responses increased to 9.28 percent from 6.78 percent in the second quarter.
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That there was a lot of negative pushback from a number of quarters.
The number complemented negative manufacturing data from Europe and Asia that led to negative sentiment across the Old Continent.
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Two months ago, roughly one in five Democrats thought the campaign was too negative, but the number now has risen to 50 percent, according to the Pew survey.
If the analysts were simply inaccurate, we would see more sell ratings and a larger number of negative earnings surprises (only 25.4% of reported companies have missed profit forecasts).
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Lead researcher Dr Ronit Peled, from Ben-Gurion University, said that women who had been exposed to a number of negative events should be considered an "at-risk" group for breast cancer.
While betting the ranch on Windows Mobile and its own Lumina smartphone, Nokia has continued to disappoint over the last few quarters with a number of negative pre-announcements and additional headcount reductions.
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That appeal sits uneasily next to a number of negative perceptions about the sport, the most pernicious of which is caused by the horrific site of a horse breaking a leg on the racetrack and having to be euthanized.
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Experts said open abdominal surgery is 20 years behind human medical advances and has a number of negative factors on animals such as large, painful wounds, post-operative pain, slower recovery and a higher risk of post-operative complications and infections.
After a rash of recent negative brokerage notes, the number is now probably at 27 M and moving lower.
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The number of teachers holding negative views of unions nearly doubled to 32% from 17% last year.
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The number of homeowners with negative equity in Iceland is growing.
In our view, returning to a more normal proportion of distressed sales will take several years, given the large number of borrowers with negative equity, the large current delinquency and foreclosure inventory, and the long current foreclosure timelines.
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Okay, so the negative 0.1 percent real GDP number surprised me, even though I was expecting weakness.
Their subsequent arrest only reinforced people's perceptions of the Pistols - both positive and negative - and the song ended up at number two.
He said the proposed increase of the Commission and Parliament would send a negative to the public, especially with a number of member states pursuing austerity budgets.
Rics said an increasing number of surveyors in Scotland expected the negative trend to continue this year.
In a note Tuesday, Citigroup analyst Walter Pritchard warned that negative currency headwinds will probably hurt revenues at a number of large-cap tech companies, including VMWare, Adobe Systems and Microsoft.
Some expressed relief U.S. officials appeared to accept a number of their suggestions for reducing the potential negative effects on them.
Despite the negative performance, Peabody has fared better than a number of its peers in 2012, as seen in the chart below.
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