Dividends remain the key reason for drug company popularity on Wall Street, especially as more investors worry about a slumping market generally.
German manufacturers are slightly more exposed to America's slumping market than their French counterparts, through foreign direct investment in America as well as exports.
The region was hit hard last year by a slumping housing market and a high unemployment rate.
John Gorham No authority We were impressed that the Sports Authority was bucking a slumping retail market (Apr. 22, 1996).
That may sound scary, but even that outcome doesn't necessarily translate into a slumping stock market, says Tobias Levkovich, an equity strategist at Citigroup.
BYD, the Chinese carmaker backed by billionaire investor Warren Buffett, reported a 94 percent slide in third-quarter net profit due to a slumping domestic market and its money-losing solar energy business.
Macroeconomic factors like high gas prices and a slumping housing market are already rearing their ugly heads in the larger retail world--witness the downbeat April sales numbers that came out on May 10.
In recent weeks, Wall Street had been hopeful that a slumping housing market that seemed to portend an economic slowdown would lead to a rate cut by the central bank during the first half the year.
The city decided to auction off the stadium in October 2009, amid a slumping real-estate market.
Sears plunged 14 percent after the department-store chain reported a steep quarterly loss and slumping sales after the market closed Thursday.
Now that the market is slumping, the reverse has become true.
Crude oil prices traded sharply lower Thursday on the EU debt woes, the fresh, weak U.S. economic data and the slumping U.S. stock market.
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Shares in Asia also closed down sharply, with Japan's main Nikkei index suffering its biggest one-day drop since the 1987 stock market crash and Hong Kong's Hang Seng slumping to a three-year low.
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