A slight uptick in dry van rejections (VOTRI.USA) to 3.88 percent balanced out
downticks in both flatbed (FOTRI.USA) and refrigeration rejection rates (ROTRI.USA), which ended the week at 9.82 and 8.22 percent respectively.
"In turn, BDL's total assets and foreign assets recorded
downticks of 10.9 percent and 4.3 percent YTD to $37.97 billion and $31.5 billion, respectively," BLOM said in its recent report.
Most market segment had single-digit
downticks in cap rates.
Small
downticks in several noninterest income categories contributed to the slight decline.
While, yes, passive buy-and-hold investing is fine for the long-term, many simply cannot stand the pain of
downticks. For those investors, I think active/tactical make sense, and there are some tactical SMA managers that show stunning returns--Good Harbor, in Chicago, comes to mind, and there are others.
UP AND DOWN--Notice how many upticks and
downticks there are in the daily price (above) of an OPEC barrel.
That likely accounts for the
downticks logged at Tony-nommed shows.
Monthly economic data is given saturation coverage, the minutest upticks or
downticks in the growth graph followed with breathless eagerness and analysed ad nauseum.
Before a true recovery takes hold, though, Hodges said it's likely there will be seasonal upticks and
downticks until a true rebound occurs.
Business reporting that focuses on the upticks and
downticks of the market provides little room for explanation, analysis or connecting-the-dots journalism.
Sales tended to track the upticks and
downticks in the CPI.
* Storage proved its sensitivity to spending upticks and
downticks. "This was really the first time there was a true up-and-down cycle for enterprise storage," said Roy.
