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It's weaker than expected due to the decline of inventories, but final demand is quite strong. Basically, it's a strong report despite the weak headline number. Consumption and all domestic demand is firm. Exports are also strong, showing that demand is quite balanced.

It's very important for the real estate community, as well, to have good schools. Overall, you might see a decline in the value of real estate if the high schools were to lose accreditation.

The two-month decline in the index suggests that the already-weak economy is likely to remain weak into next year.

It should be a positive for the market. The decline was more than expected. It probably has to do with the drop in energy prices that we've seen. To come in down 0.7 is less inflationary pressure.

Mike May

It's been a fairly steady decline since the 1980s.

For 2006, we expect a significant decline of exports.

It's kind of hard to be shocked by the magnitude of these declines when they're declining every single quarter.

It's likely we got a decline in sales. We've had a drop in vehicle sales and it also looks like back-to-school was on the disappointing side.

It looks like the decline has been generated largely because of excess optimism in the housing construction market a month ago which was not sustained.

Derek Sivers

For some reason, ever since I was a little kid, I wake with the most energy of the day, and it slowly declines from there.

Peter Greene

There's disappointment about the economic reports right now, but my sense is that this is going to be short-lived. The overall economic trend is higher, with the exception of the labor market, so it seems to me that declines are going to be used as an opportunity to buy.

A technical rebound after a steep decline for three straight sessions was far from a big surprise.

About 95 percent of the time, weather is an unrealistic excuse, ... Less than 5 percent of the time, there's either a very low or no relationship at all between weather and a dramatic decline in sales and profits.

If the lower wholesale price is sustained, you can expect to start seeing at pumps a decline from $2.99 a gallon to about (the) $2.80s by Thursday.

I think a 0.2 percent decline in economic growth due Katrina's impact on oil and the regional economy is a realistic assumption,

Mike Moran

The figures leave little doubt that declines in mortgage interest rates have provided support for housing,

Laini Taylor

Thank you, but we respectfully decline your overture, being more enjoyably occupied at present.

Martin Parr

The idea of England in decline is very attractive.

The equipment market decline in 2005 was the result of a number of factors, which worked together to slow the demand for new capacity.

The higher profit is only the effect of a strong decline of the tax rate.

The gasoline figure was the important number, the decline was much larger than expected.

The goal of this policy is to work with landowners to turn the decline of a species around in order to make listing unnecessary.

The dramatic decline in the share price is entirely due to what's going on at its subsidiary. This is a serious distraction from the HSBC takeover arrangement that needs to be resolved.

The gain in distillate was unexpectedly large, which should eventually weigh on the market. Distillate increased because a decline in demand coincided with an increase in imports.

The market extended yesterday's decline as it took its lead from the overnight losses on Wall Street, especially technology shares on the Nasdaq.

These are big declines. It shows you how weak the economy is. Prices don't decline like this unless you've got slack demand conditions.

It's been good returns this year, and people are locking in their profits and squaring positions. I won't read too much into the decline today.

This is the first study to demonstrate that long-term calorie restriction with optimal nutrition has cardiac-specific effects that (delay or reverse) age-associated declines in heart function.

Scott Patterson

This is not good. The decline in enrollment is something we have to grapple with.

This is really a resumption of the 22-cent decline since the peak price, back on May 21,