Sentence examples for eased 1 from inspiring English sources

Within the 30-stock Dow Jones index, Hewlett-Packard fell 4 9/16, to 118 13/16, while International Business Machines eased 1 15/16, to 112 112.

Exxon Mobil, the No. 1 market capitalization in the S&P 500, 3% of the index, eased 1% in a rising stock market.

DaimlerChrysler shares eased 31.25 cents in New York, closing at $67.1875.

I.B.M., a Dow component, eased 25 cents, to $79.68.

Shares of Wells Fargo fell 65 cents, or 2 percent, to $31.50, and US Bancorp eased 20 cents, or 0.76 percent, to $26.09.

Intel, which has lost ground in recent days, eased 13 cents further, to $29.89.

MasterCard eased $13.11, or 2.4 percent, to $539.80 after the payments processing company reported that revenue missed the expectations of financial analysts who cover the company.

Investors seem unsure of the acquisition's merits; while WPP shares have risen in the last week in anticipation of strong earnings, they eased 6.5 pence, or 1.3percentto to 488 pence Friday. "The reality is it would be a good acquisition for them," said Simon Baker, who follows WPP at SG Securities.

Shares of Invensys have lost half their value this year, easing 0.75 pence on Friday, to $1.59255.

All of which brings those of us who think about America's place in the world back to Bernanke's narrow-minded "quantitative easing" — $600 billion here, $600 billion there.

Mr. Pence said the Fed's previous round of quantitative easing — $1.7 trillion worth of purchases of mortgage-related securities and government debt from January 2009 to March 2010 — failed to reduce unemployment.