And they are only slowly calling back workers laid off during the falloff in business.
Longer-term U.S. Treasury bonds have appreciated 10% since March, more than compensating for the recent falloff of the dollar.
In recent weeks, the falloff in oil prices has sapped some of the euphoria from ethanol stocks .
In contrast, iOS and Android are pictured growing quickly, with no signs of a plateau or falloff yet.
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But KI's larger competitors, such as publicly traded Steelcase and Herman Miller, were hit worse by the tech falloff.
Merrill is combating the falloff in individual investing by cutting costs, says Ken Worthington, analyst at CIBC World Markets.
Meanwhile, a steep falloff in stock-market price swings is making investors more confident in their ability to peg companies' values.
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Italy, too, saw substantial domestic buying in early 2012, and there are signs there, as well, of a falloff in demand.
Further price gains could lead to a greater falloff in demand, hurting some of the biggest producers such as Coca-Cola Co.
Figures for the June 2003 fiscal year are disappointing: in U.S. dollar terms, a 22% rise in revenue, but a 10% falloff in operating profit.
Olson estimated 1.4 million fewer taxpayers claimed those breaks in 2006 than 2005, and says there was no explanation for the falloff except for confusion caused by the delay.
While he has enjoyed great success as an investor, the falloff demonstrates the painful limitations of his philosophy: Buy good companies he understands and hold on to them forever.
In our pages last October, as he has elsewhere, Roach repeated his warnings, specifically citing commodity prices as prone to a falloff in activity, both in the U.S. and China.
Kinsley, the former New Republic editor (and current TIME essayist), reports that 17, 000 subscribers had signed up by midweek, a big falloff in audience but a necessary step, he argues, if the Webzine is to be a self-sustaining business.
The strong peso has hurt exports, but not as much as last year's falloff in demand from the U.S. So far this year the Mexican Bolsa is up 10% in dollar terms, but stocks are still relatively cheap at 17 times earnings.
"We expect economic slowing and belt-tightening, but we don't see this falloff as being as precipitous as it was in 2001, " says Robert Kurtter, a managing director at Moody's (nyse: MCO - news - people ) muni bond rating service.
Barry Schwartz, a blogger for search marketing site Search Engine Roundtable, says that even though his pagerank dropped from seven to four on a scale from one to 10, he hasn't seen a falloff in traffic from Google searches or even a drop in his site's placement in Google's search results.
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