Sentence examples for equity was down from inspiring English sources

In fact, the equity was down more than 6% on Thursday following a downgrade from JPMorgan Chase from "overweight" to "neutral".

Its shares have fallen more than 25percentt in recent months, and the company's public equity is down over 46percentt from its 52-week high of $55.99, a record set in October of 2014.

"The next 20 to 25 percent move in equities is down, not up".

Global equities were down, commodities were down, emerging markets were down dramatically, hedge funds lost money, as well as several other asset classes.

The Aviva Defensive Managed Fund, which cannot invest more than 35% in equities, is down only 3.5% over the past month thanks to its bond holdings.

On Thursday stocks fell in Europe and on Wall Street, where equities were down more than 3 percent at the markets' close, even after the Federal Reserve's announcement Wednesday of a plan to reduce borrowing costs for businesses and consumers.

Most equities are down over the last year — even without taking into account the recent market turbulence.

That's been a money-losing trade for everyone as mainland equities are down over 20% in the last 12 months and up only 1.45% in the last five years.

But David Yarrow, a London hedge fund manager, astutely points out that markets are looking forward and "Europe's crisis is now accepted, which is why equities are down on the year despite exceptional corporate results".

It said leverage, or the ratio of borrowings to equity, is down to 5.6 to 1, compared with 7 to 1 a year ago.

By way of comparison, between year-end 2007 and year-end 2011, the Standard & Poor's 500 total return index (which measures the large-cap segment of U.S. equities) was down 1.6 percent on average per year and the Russell 2000 Index (which measures the small-cap segment) had a compound average annual growth rate of 0.6 percent.