The caution among investors, who had only recently been talking about a possible rate rise next month, reflects downbeat news on the US economy and a shaky global backdrop.
The losses that Electronic Arts reported last month reflects the fact that, for much of this year, the game industry in this country has been in a lull -- awaiting not just a new version of the Playstation, but also 128-bit machinexpectedted next year from Microsoft and Nintendo.
But while Thorpe, co-vocalist Tom Fleming, drummer Chris Talbot and guitarist Ben Little aren't quite boyband material yet, their current album, Present Tense, which peaked at No 10 when it was released last month, reflects a definite streamlining of their sound and a more confident approach to their image.
The shift in tactics, which commanders began formulating last month, reflects the military's delicate balancing act between maintaining the support of an Iraqi public that is increasingly restless over the continuing disorder and slow pace of restoring electrical power and water, and combating Baathist Party operatives, foreign fighters, Islamic militants and criminals.
The deal, expected to close next month, reflects the shift in how enterprises buy and deploy software, with software that's open to change and free to adopt no longer the exception but the rule.
Peter Creticos, executive director of the Institute for Work and the Economy, believes discussion about what happened in Ferguson, Missouri, last month, reflects a discussion Americans have been having about inequality for decades, but that the question of why it happened extends beyond race.
But the reasons behind the steps — and the rationale for the sharp growth in their popularity in just the last month — reflect the peculiarities of this recession, its sudden deepening and the changing dynamics of the global economy.
The declines last month reflected weakness in many parts of the country.
Consumers across the country will face double-digit increases in their health care costs starting next month, reflecting the biggest surge in medical inflation since the early 1990's.
The weakness last month reflected a 0.2percentt dip in demand for transportation goods as demand for commercial aircraft fell by 43.8percentthethe second big monthly decline.
