With home values weakening and mortgage defaults rising, investors have balked at buying home loans in any form, and mortgage bonds have broadly dropped relative to Treasuries.
In response to the release of the Fed minutes, which usually come three weeks after the meeting, the dollar dropped relative to the Japanese yen and the euro.
A poll carried out for Paris-Match magazine during the rioting suggested that his popularity had dropped relative to Mr de Villepin's.Back in Evry, frustration runs high on all sides.
In times when the cost of debt financing drops relative to earnings yields profits per share, divided by price companies tend to favor shareholders, according to credit strategists at Bank of America.
The reason: As long-haul carriers desperately slashed prices to fill seats and spread expenses, the implied price each passenger pays per connecting leg has dropped relative to the distance traveled during that leg.
They thought that if wages started to drop relative to productivity, competitive market forces would push them back up again.
As the telephone and cable companies get more and more control, our ranking in Internet connectivity continue to drop relative to the rest of the world.
According to the latest data from the United States, just over 58percentt of eligible Americans voted, meaning turnout has not dropped relative to recent presidential elections.
In fact over the last fifteen years the pay of public-sector workers, including teachers, has dropped relative to private-sector employees with the same level of education -- even including health and retirement benefits.
According to Dr. Reich, "comparing apples to apples and you'd see that over the last 15 years the pay of public sector workers has dropped relative to private-sector employees with the same level of education.
