minus
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A consensus of economists polled by The Wall Street Journal expected a smaller fall to minus 14.1.
It was like “The Truman Show” mixed with “Twelve Angry Men,” or a segment of “Candid Camera” stretched into a series, or Nathan Fielder’s “The Rehearsal,” minus the neuroses and cruelty.
From Los Angeles Times
The figures are diffusion indexes, meaning that they show the share of companies that reported expansions minus the share that reported contractions.
Micron anticipates adjusted earnings per share will be $19.15 at the midpoint, plus or minus 40 cents, compared with the $12.03 Wall Street was estimating.
Births minus deaths was a negative 781 in the fourth quarter, meaning that there were more deaths than births in Canada in the latest quarter.
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