With moderate declines on the final day of the year, the Dow Jones industrial average finished 2001 with a loss of 7.1percentthethe Standard & Poor's 500 stock index fell 13percentt and the Nasdaq composite sank 21.1percentt.
This is getting close to deflation.While a moderate decline of the dollar might be benign for the world, a sudden plunge would be another story altogetherWhile a moderate decline of the dollar might be benign for the world, a sudden plunge would be another story altogether.
The PC market is expected to post a moderate decline of 3.8percentt or so this year if I recall correctly.
Cooper and Muir [ 12] have shown only a moderate decline of PulseCO after induced haemorrhage in healthy dogs, with significant bias between PulseCO and lithium indicator dilution CO.
We investigated whether a rather moderate decline of air pollution levels in the 1990s in Switzerland was associated with a reduction in respiratory symptoms and diseases in school children.
Although the prevalence and risk factors for diabetic retinopathy in type 2 diabetes have been extensively investigated (6– 8), there are little data addressing the issue of whether microalbuminuria or moderate decline of estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) (30 59.9 mL/mis/1.73 m) is a competing risk factor for the development and progression of diabetic retinopathy.
The ZEW surveys of economic expectations among business leaders plunged from 12.1 to 1.9 points, significantly missing market consensus of a more moderate decline to 6.5 points.
In Scotland, over a 13-year period since 1995 there have been at best only moderate declines in the prevalence of behavioural risk factors and no change in their socio-economic patterning, notably for smoking and poor diet.
There were also moderate declines in the numbers of treatments for penile warts in 15 24 and 25 34 year old men and for anal warts in 35 44 year old men.
Our study design also precludes causal inference regarding what may have accounted for various trends, such as moderate declines in the overall number of visits from 2008 through 2012, although the Great Recession and loosening of some clinical guidelines may have played a role (34, 35).
