downward
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Retail sales in October dropped 0.2% from a month earlier, weaker than the flat trade economists anticipated and after the fall in September was revised downward to 0.9%.
Williams pointed to this factor as well, adding on Friday: "That's going to give you a bit of a downward bias."
From Barron's
The downward trend has continued in most markets across the L.A.
From Los Angeles Times
But with employers reluctant to hire and unemployment growing, the pressure on wages is likely downward.
Several said that workarounds and missing data that the Labor Department employees couldn’t get for this month’s release might have skewed the data downward.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
