The decline in Pyongyang's relative share was matched almost exactly by strong relative growth in the north-west region.
EnCana's balance sheet is strong relative to that of its peers, Mr. Cohen said, and management has a record of finding oil and gas and extracting it profitably.
Yet that has less to do with the fund manager's ability than with the strong relative performance of the small-cap value sector.
We expect to see consensus rise by 2%-32%-3%the back of this, but note both the full valuation and strong relative share price.
UBS said: "We are downgrading Admiral from buy to neutral given the strong relative performance (up 30% versus the FTSE All share).
New Orleans remains strong, relative to other ports, in "break bulk," or non-containerized shipping, but, even so, today the longshoremen's union has fewer than a thousand members.
Monday's breaking, though visually spectacular, was not very strong relative to the even stronger wind that was forcing it.
Apparently, having lived in two French-speaking countries, his spoken skills were considered too strong relative to his less-than-stellar grammar.
The weak second-quarter figures partly reflect a poor adjustment for the leap-year effect, which made the first quarter look artificially strong relative to the second.
The OECD describes this as "a rather strong relative decoupling of municipal waste generation from economic growth", although it expresses some misgivings about the reliability of the data.
Even so, analysts at Credit Suisse note that the BarCap performance was better than some of its peers, although they do express concerns: "The Barclays Capital revenue number was strong relative to peers.
