To me, the deal has the smell of inevitability to it. If it doesn't happen, for whatever reason, it would be a lost opportunity for both companies. The long-term trajectory of both these companies without each other is downwards.
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Nortel is having quite an affect on the exchange. It has broken through its 52-week lows. UBS Warburg today is revising its estimates for the company substantially downwards.
The dollar is drifting downwards. There is an inclination to sell dollars -- the current account deficit is the underlying concern. We need to see a big upward surprise in U.S. data to change the sentiment.
Through 2005, the rise in lapses was offset by strong growth in new business premiums. It appears that some of the gains in new business premiums were offset by a tandem rise in lapse rates. The life industry collectively needs to manage the lapse rate downwards.
Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.
We think the trend in layoff is downwards, ... but we're not yet ready to argue that all the danger has passed.
In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.
An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards.
Fig tree, how long it's been full meaning for me, the way you almost entirely omit to flower and into the seasonablyresolute fruit uncelebratedly thrust your purest secret. Like the tube of a fountain, your bent bough drives the sap downwards and up and it leaps from its sleep, scarce waking, into the joy of its sweetest achievement.
Sentiment is generally negative for the dollar even in the face of good news. The market is looking through the expected rate hikes. If you take away the interest rate support for the dollar... and the structural problem is still there, the trend for the dollar is downwards.
Post-Christmas economic statistics have been inconclusive, with those from the retail and manufacturing sectors on the negative side, while house prices are showing signs of improvement. Therefore, despite earlier hopes of a cut this time, a no-change decision was widely expected. However, we firmly believe the trend is still downwards and therefore this is a cut 'deferred', not a change of heart.
Hence no force, however great, can stretch a cord, however fine, into a horizontal line which is accurately straight: there will always be a bending downwards.
I started my career at the top and have been working my way downwards ever since.
Natural Selection never made it come to pass, as a habit of nature, that an unsupported stone should move downwards rather than upwards. It applies to no part of inorganic nature, and is very limited even in the phenomena of organic life.
Everyone is waiting for Wednesday, and it looks like the futures market bears have used the wait-and-see mood to sell a bit and play downwards.