Confidence dropped like a bomb in the fourth quarter of 2000 and now sits at 1990 levels.
The company posted profit falling by 29% in the fourth quarter of the last fiscal year.
Speculative-grade bond defaults were barely 2% in the fourth quarter, according to the agency.
The 9.9% increase in the fourth quarter of the last fiscal year was the biggest rise.
The GDP figure for the fourth quarter is expected to come in at up 3%.
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Still, it's the company's first sequential quarterly decline, down 3% from the fourth quarter of 2008.
Operating margins in the Eastern Hemisphere showed good improvement in the fourth quarter, he notes.
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Pannell changed the game in the fourth quarter, scoring two goals and handing out two assists.
That's still above the 27.7 percent share in the fourth quarter of 2010, however.
Anthony missed all four of his field goals in the fourth quarter and fouled out.
Construction output rose by 0.9% in the fourth quarter, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said.
By contrast, only 10% of the 2012 demand growth occurred in the fourth quarter.
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Home foreclosures rose to the highest level on record in the fourth quarter of 2007.
"The fourth quarter, we just defensively, we picked up, " Knicks coach Mike Woodson said.
The fourth quarter was as clear as any as to how the lines are drawn.
Those regions accounted for about half of the company's users in the fourth quarter.
Corning shares are trading higher Tuesday morning on better-than-expected results for the fourth quarter.
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Brazil housing prices rose 13.7% from the fourth quarter of 2011 to Dec. 31, 2012.
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That was much better than the 0.4 percent growth recorded in the fourth quarter.
Gross domestic product jumped 9.8% in the fourth quarter, up from 9.6% in the third.
Therefore, our guidance for the fourth quarter has a wider range than is typical for ADI.
At the end of the fourth quarter, Tebow was dragged down on an option play.
This includes the fourth quarter individual estimated tax payment, normally due Jan. 15, 2013.
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The company posted profit falling by 93.2% in the fourth quarter of the last fiscal year.
By contrast, Goldman Sachs handily beat analyst estimates by tightening compensation in the fourth quarter.
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And it looks like there will be more buying reported for the fourth quarter as well.
Predictably, the fourth quarter turned out to be a turning point, producing very strong results.
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While the fourth quarter is not a tough compare getting 16% earnings growth should be challenging.
The 20.2% increase in the fourth quarter of the last fiscal year was the biggest rise.
Aeropostale said that same-store sales declined by 3% in the fourth quarter from the year before.
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