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Example Sentences
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However, Halliburton looks to have partially defied the drag from lower oil prices with stronger international revenue, despite a 7% fall in its North America sales from the preceding quarter.
From Barron's
They also point to data showing institutional allocation to stocks — $16 trillion — beat a high seen in 2007 “and has only been higher in the three quarters preceding the dot-com top.”
From MarketWatch
In the months preceding its filing, Saks executives reached out to Amazon about providing financing or even buying the company outright, according to one of the people.
That begins with the T20 World Cup and a preceding white-ball tour of Sri Lanka, which starts in just two weeks' time.
From BBC
Tweedy, Browne provided a list of companies whose stocks were trading at trailing price/earnings ratios above 40 and that had been buying back shares over the preceding 12 months.
From MarketWatch
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