But during the most recent period of high inflation, equities did not live up to their billing.
During the most recent period recorded, five out of six local health boards in Wales had scores higher than 100.
He found that from 2006 to 2008, the most recent period available, U.S. prosecutors dismissed charges against 42 white-collar defendants.
Thereafter the Schnidejoch was blocked by the glaciers of the Little Ice Age, the most recent period of intense cold.
Between December 2007 and September 2011, the most recent period covered in the report, sentences of black males were 19.5% longer than those for whites.
Abercrombie said its sales fell 10% in the most recent period.
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Local air passenger traffic declined 2.9% during January to November 2012--the most recent period for which comparable numbers are available--to 53.41 million, according to government data.
Revenue in the most recent period was little changed, too.
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Refining companies Valero Energy, Sunoco and Tesoro all took a hit financially during that time (the most recent period for which data are available) largely because of high crude prices.
Kam Wing Chan of the University of Washington has compiled statistics which show that from 1990 to 2005 the most recent period for which reliable statistics are available there was an overall gross migration across provinces of about 80m migrants (see map).
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As of the end of 2011, the most recent period for which such data is available, 43.8% of CIC's equity holdings was in companies based in North America, followed by 29.6% in the Asian-Pacific region, 20.6% in Europe, 4.7% in Latin America and 1.3% in Africa.
What's more, the number of JNPR shares sold short spiked by more than 10% during the most recent reporting period, and now accounts for a respectable 5.25% of the equity's total float.
For instance, short interest rose by more than 22% during the most recent reporting period.
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Specifically, the number of ANR shares sold short spiked nearly 25% during the most recent reporting period.
During the most recent reporting period, Green Mountain saw the third-largest jump in short interest on the Nasdaq.
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During the most recent reporting period, the number of RIMM shares sold short plunged by more than 19%.
Short interest in Apple has jumped 13% since February, rising nearly 2% during the most recent reporting period.
All of the metals lost ground during the most recent reporting period.
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Further evidence of this bearish attitude is the fact that short interest on Kimberly-Clark jumped by 20% during the most recent reporting period.
In fact, short interest on the equity surged by 21.3% during the past month, and 13% during just the most recent reporting period.
More disturbing, the bears appear to have realized their folly of abandoning CSCO, as short interest rose 6% during the most recent reporting period.
But nothing came of that proposal, as evidenced by the most recent quiet period infraction by Salesforce.com (nyse: CRM - news - people ).
But the bears' appetites are far from sated, as the number of SNDK shares sold short surged by more than 58% during the most recent reporting period.
Short sellers have already begun to buy back their bearish bets, as the number of MEE shares sold short plunged by 21% during the most recent reporting period.
Meanwhile, short interest dropped more than 3.5% during the most recent reporting period, and a continuation of this short covering could provide an additional tailwind for the sector.
Short interest still accounts for a whopping 34% of the stock's total float, despite an 8.8% decline in the number of PALM shares sold short during the most recent reporting period.
Merck and Schering split the profits from the medicines equally, and the drugs have been growth engines, with sales up 25% in the most recent quarter over the same period last year.
The first three parameters we look to are rising revenues over the most recent three-year period, rising earnings over the recent three-year period and a relatively low or controlled long-term debt to equity.
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Prices rose in all of the New York metals during the week-long period covered by the most recent CFTC report.
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Prices skidded in all of the New York metals during the week-long period covered by the most recent CFTC report.
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