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Germany’s consumer-climate index, published Friday by research group Nuremberg Institute for Market Decisions and GfK, fell to minus 29.6 in its forecast for August, from minus 29.3 in July.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
This dishonesty spoils the story and replicates the Bundists’ ideological vanity, minus their heroism.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
It covers all financial and non-financial assets, primarily property, minus debts, with asset values converted into dollars.
From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026
Looking at historical trends, Klement calculates the expected returns from U.S. stocks standing at these valuations are minus 2% over the next decade.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 29, 2026
Thus, we might say that a 95 percent confidence interval for the percentage of voters favoring candidate X is 45 percent plus or minus 6 percent.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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That’s a slight pullback from March, and the underlying data had both pluses and minuses.
From Barron's ● May 5, 2026
Looking further ahead, they weigh the pluses and minuses of retiring early or late and pros and cons of pursuing and exploring a new postretirement job or career.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 20, 2025
There are the pluses from capital gains and there are the minuses from capital losses.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 2025
So, as an introvert, what are the pluses and minuses there?
From Salon ● Apr. 29, 2025
Pluses and minuses, we get along but we are not close.
From "The Crossover" by Kwame Alexander
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