Some analysts are crediting firming external demand, but more are looking at internal factors.
Landlords should try to wait out this slump in anticipation of rents firming next year and into 2014.
"In the United States and Japan, the CLIs continue to point to economic growth firming, " the OECD said.
Prices had been under moderate selling pressure earlier Thursday, on mostly technical selling and a firming U.S. dollar index.
But beyond that, there doesn't seem to be much firming up at all.
This is peaking as well, reducing inflation and possibly firming up the dollar.
The developing-country change comes mostly from the growth and firming up of the commitments on deforestation made by Indonesia and Brazil.
At a bare minimum, the company could simply be firming up friendships and hedging its bets on the future of computing.
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The Indian launch of the Bold 9900 now appears to be firming up for mid-August and the Qatar launch is in the same frame.
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Volume was very light yesterday, though, and futures are firming up a bit this morning as Washington resumes fiscal cliff talks in earnest.
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Both created many millions of jobs by unleashing free market forces: firming up the dollar, cutting or maintaining low marginal tax rates, deregulating business, freeing trade, reforming welfare.
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Mr Zoellick dominated Doha, winning the trust of poor countries with concessions on patents and anti-dumping rules while firming up a trade agenda that would serve America's interests.
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The dollar index has even popped, firming to 76.4, a full point higher than it stood at this time a week ago, when it touched a 15-month low.
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Crude oil also finished the week on a strong note, and overall the firming in the commodity markets suggested to me that the commodity markets had turned the corner.
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Institutional buyers that had been considering moving into secondary or tertiary markets because they saw the ground firming under them and also felt that primary markets have been getting too expensive may be rethinking that move.
And that explains the firming labor picture.
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Firming, shaping and toning are just puffery.
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"It's very firming, " she said.
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Both metals are vulnerable to a slight firming of the dollar or an ease in sovereign debt issues in either side of the Atlantic, as has been the case lately with the easing of the European debt concerns and the anxiety over the health of US banks, which was followed by a firm dollar.
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