The 76ers are also slumping unexpectedly, despite a surprising playoff run last spring and the off-season signing of Elton Brand, an All-Star forward.
Consumer confidence unexpectedly slumped this month, but housing was a surprise bright spot in the economy in October, reports showed today.
Apple Computer, which late Tuesday became the latest technology company to warn of unexpectedly weak results, slumped $2.69, to $14.31.
Chunks of tempered safety glass are prone to crash down unexpectedly among the hard hats, fracturing cohesively like slumped Dali watches in a surrealist landscape.
In the course of the novel, Russell, once brash and exuberant, is brought so low that, when Corrine spots him unexpectedly one day, she is thrown by "his slumped comportment, his slack demeanor, even by the gray in his hair. . . .
China's stock market slumped into bear market territory amid panicky trading on Monday, despite its central bank unexpectedly cutting interest rates over the weekend in an effort to stem the selling.
HONG KONG — PetroChina's first-quarter profit rose unexpectedly after it increased oil and gas production, while earnings at the refiner China Petroleum & Chemical, or Sinopec, slumped on losses from selling fuels at state-controlled prices.
Consumer confidence unexpectedly fell in December, the Conference Board, an industry research group, reported yesterday, as the outlook for employment worsened, energy prices rose and the stock market slumped.
Wells Fargo and Fifth Third Bancorp slumped.
