Word: drops
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...this took place a day after many of the world's major stock indices had experienced their largest percentage point drop since the October 1987 crash. American investors, it seems, are still worried about what may be on financial companies' balance sheets. The ad-hoc nature of the European response to its banking crisis has also raised concerns. Investors were clearly worried that even if a global financial meltdown is averted, a broad recession may be inevitable. And so, as governments attend to one crisis, the markets discover another to fret about - and the cycle of panic continues...
...became the sole host of ABC's Today show, only after the network agreed to drop the requirement for reporters to read commercials...
Another day, another drama on Wall Street. On Monday, the Dow Jones industrials plummeted roughly 800 points before rising late in the afternoon for an overall drop of around 370. But the swirl of numbers so far does not include perhaps the surest sign of hard times on the horizon: consumer confidence data. "For sure, we're going to see a decline in response to recent events," says Nicholas Souleles, a professor of finance at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business. "How much remains to be seen...
...sudden, precipitous drop would almost certainly signal the beginning of a recession, since in many ways consumer confidence in the economy is the result of self-fulfilling prophecies: financial anxieties on Wall Street and frantic election-year politicking over the economy aren't really the kinds of things that buck up everyday spenders. But other factors now present in the economy affect popular thinking as well: energy costs, inflation, credit markets and job availability. Thus, the spectacle of Monday's roller-coaster ride on Wall Street may be just one more push toward the point when Americans start to pocket...
...techniques - like selling the carbon sequestered in standing forests as a way to fight climate change - offer the potential for game-changing new sources of revenue for conservation. Altogether, the IUCN assessment estimates that 5% of currently threatened mammals are showing signs of recovery. But that's just a drop in the bucket compared to the number of mammals whose populations are dwindling fast - and nearly 900 species lacked the necessary data to be classified as safe or threatened. "The reality is that the number of threatened mammals could be as high as 36%," noted Jan Schipper, the director...