Imports shrank 1.9 percent, dashing hopes for a second rise in a row.
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On January 13th the firm reported disappointing quarterly results, dashing hopes for quick improvement.
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U.S. crude fell 0.52% to $34.18 a barrel, dashing hopes that the market could stabilise.
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Earlier on Tuesday, euro zone manufacturing data was released, dashing hopes of an improvement in the sector.
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When adjusted for inflation, the number fell 27.75% YoY, dashing hopes the recent pickup in wages was sustainable.
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An additional 11 princes were hauled in this month, dashing hopes that the November arrests were a one-off.
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But fighting continues in various parts of the country, dashing hopes of a change to civilian leadership bringing peace.
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They say it could leave millions wrestling with debilitating psychological disorders while dashing hopes for a swift economic recovery.
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The turnout was 49 percent, dashing hopes that the Lebanese would embrace their first national vote in nine years.
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No deal would mean no increase in Swiss access to the single market, dashing hopes for a new electricity union.
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More pronouncements on Twitter by the president pushed stocks around all week, alternatively raising or dashing hopes for a deal.
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And North Korea launched several short-range missiles off its coast, dashing hopes that the country would refrain from provocations.
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But Putin said Thursday the current depressed price of oil suits him just fine, dashing hopes of further cuts in production.
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As he confronts an enormous recovery, he hopes it will spark an infusion of opportunity rather than dashing hopes for change.
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Reformists are now saying the 18 slots will all be filled by men, dashing hopes built up during Mr. Rouhani's campaign.
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Meanwhile, Iran has continued funding groups designated as terrorist organizations, dashing hopes that the deal would lead it to mitigate its behavior.
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Failure to strike a deal would mean no increase in Swiss access to the single market, dashing hopes for an electricity union.
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Failure to strike a deal would mean no increase in Swiss access to the single market, dashing hopes for a new electricity union.
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Failure to strike a deal would means no increase in Swiss access to the single market, dashing hopes for a new electricity union.
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With the swipe of a pen, decades old trade and travel restrictions were reinstated, dashing hopes for normalized relations in the near future.
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Indicated 2.2 percent lower The utility said it would resume dividend payments only next year, dashing hopes for a return to payouts this year.
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Those not accepted by the United States would likely be resettled in PNG or in another developing country, dashing hopes of coming to Australia.
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Brexiteers fear that, because of this, Mrs May's customs partnership would evolve into a customs union, dashing hopes of trade deals with third countries.
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Both official and private business surveys suggested slower Chinese factory growth this month, dashing hopes for a steady reading or even a faster expansion.
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Underwater "banging" noises detected Saturday turned out not to be from the vessel, the navy told reporters Monday, dashing hopes of a big break.
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Data on Thursday showed that the number of new cases and deaths from coronavirus had risen in the country, dashing hopes for a retreat.
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Data on Thursday showed that the number of both new cases and deaths from coronavirus had risen in the country, dashing hopes for a retreat.
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Both official and private business surveys pointed to slower Chinese factory growth this month, dashing hopes for a steady reading or even a faster expansion.
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Scientists said on Monday, however, that world carbon emissions are set to rise 2 percent this year to a new record, dashing hopes global emissions had already peaked.
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Other data on Tuesday suggested the world's second-largest economy lost more steam in December, dashing hopes that a year-long flurry of government stimulus would finally kick in.
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Republican Karen Handel has won Georgia's record-breaking special congressional election, dashing hopes by Democrats to pull off an upset in the run-up to the 2018 midterm elections.
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The Kremlin said on Friday President Vladimir Putin had no plans to talk to the Saudi leadership, dashing hopes that a deal could be clinched at the very top.
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The EU has piled pressure on Switzerland to go along, warning that failure to strike a deal means no increase in market access, dashing hopes for a new electricity union.
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Adding to the gloom, retail sales in January fell short of economists' forecast, slowing sharply from the previous month and dashing hopes that domestic demand may offset weakening external demand.
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China's strongman leader, Xi Jinping, presiding over an economy gaining quickly on the United States, has openly challenged American leadership abroad while dashing hopes of any political thaw at home.
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There is only so long, in a series about bondage and rape, that you can string out the cycle of raising and dashing hopes without numbing or traumatizing your audience.
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But that method was instead used in the GOP tax plan, dashing hopes that offshore tax reform could be used to help upgrade U.S. roads, bridges and other public works.
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Colombia on Thursday confirmed President Juan Manuel Santos would not be attending, dashing hopes he might announce a bilateral ceasefire with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, this weekend.
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Congo's main opposition bloc denounced the choice as a "provocation", dashing hopes the decision might ease the risk of violence over Kabila's plan to stay on until at least April 2018.
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BEIJING — The short, unexpected honeymoon that China enjoyed with President Trump seems to be in trouble, dashing hopes in Beijing that the two countries had embarked on a new, businesslike relationship.
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Those tensions escalated this month, with the United States raising tariffs on Chinese goods in the midst of trade negotiations and China retaliating, dashing hopes for a quick resolution to the dispute.
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Brent crude futures pared gains Tuesday following news that Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Russia and Venezuela would lead an effort to freeze output at January levels, dashing hopes of a cut in production.
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Only after Hawaii was admitted to the union in 1959 — dashing hopes of restored native sovereignty — did the kanaka maoli paradoxically gain a greater voice in what was a newly representative democracy.
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To make things worse, since 2015, Washington has relied on the YPG to defeat ISIS, dashing hopes in Ankara that it can rely on the United States to counter the YPG-PKK.
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However, crude futures fell about 3 percent on Tuesday after Iran rejected an offer from Saudi Arabia to limit its oil output in exchange for Riyadh cutting supply, dashing hopes for a compromise.
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Both fears of a Muslim ban and the possibility skilled workers may face a denial of entry looms large in the Valley, dashing hopes for those wanting to contribute in the innovation capital.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union government leaders declined on Friday to set tougher targets for fighting climate change, dashing hopes they would inject momentum into a United Nations climate conference in Chile in December.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union government leaders declined on Friday to set tougher targets for fighting climate change, dashing hopes they would inject momentum into a United Nations climate conference in Chile in December.
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Nairobi (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Less than 2 percent of title deeds issued in Kenya since 2013 went to women, campaigners said on Tuesday, dashing hopes raised by constitutional reform granting them equal property rights.
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Zimbabwe is in the grips of its worst economic crisis in a decade, marked by soaring prices and shortages of medicines, fuel and electricity, dashing hopes of a quick recovery under President Emmerson Mnangagwa.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's only female giant panda bear will not give birth this year, dashing hopes that she was about to produce the first panda cubs born in the country, Edinburgh Zoo said on Monday.
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Fatalities in Italy from coronavirus have surged, the Civil Protection Agency said on Tuesday, dashing hopes the epidemic in the world's worst hit country was easing after more encouraging numbers in the previous two days.
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LONDON, Sept 9 (Reuters) - Building a ticker tape for European share prices would take years, the bloc's securities market regulator has said, dashing hopes of banks and funds for speedy action to cut data costs.
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Infections spread rapidly around the world and new infections outside China now surpass those in the country where the epidemic began, dashing hopes would be over anytime soon and economic activity would return to normal.
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SHANGHAI, April 26.7236 (Reuters) - China stocks fell on Wednesday morning, amid new signs the central bank is putting on hold broad policy easing measures, dashing hopes for fresh large-scale liquidity pumps into the financial system.
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Global carbon emissions are set to rise nearly 3 percent this year due to continued fossil fuel use, scientists said this week, dashing hopes that an increase in 2017 was temporary after two years of slowdown.
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Global carbon dioxide emissions are set to rise nearly 3 percent this year due to continued fossil fuel use, scientists said on Wednesday, dashing hopes that an increase in 2017 was temporary after two years of slowdown.
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KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Nepal's ethnic minorities have rejected a constitutional amendment, dashing hopes of an end to a political crisis that has led to fuel shortages and hampered deliveries of relief materials to survivors of last year's earthquakes.
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Trump also said on Monday that he will withdraw the United States from a Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal on his first day in office, dashing hopes that he may soften his protectionist stance on international trade.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's household spending rose more than expected in March but real wages tumbled the most in nearly four years, dashing hopes consumer sector activity may soften the blow from external factors such as global trade conflicts.
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But Chairman Jerome Powell both confused and spooked markets during the subsequent press conference by categorizing the central bank's cut — the first of its kind since 2008 — as a "midcycle adjustment," dashing hopes that additional cuts are guaranteed.
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With the MSCI decision dashing hopes of steady foreign capital inflows, investors are now focusing on China's struggling economy amid a spike in global market volatility on worries Britain would vote to leave the European Union next week.
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YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar's government under Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi has used repressive laws to prosecute peaceful critics, dashing hopes that its first democratic leader in decades would safeguard free speech, Human Rights Watch said on Friday.
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TOKYO, March 4 (Reuters) - Japan's services sector shrank at the fastest pace in nearly six years in February as a jolt from the coronavirus threatens to push the economy into recession, dashing hopes of a domestic-led recovery.
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Trump told reporters in London that there is "no deadline" for an agreement with Beijing to end the tit-for-tat tariff war, dashing hopes of a boost in U.S. soybean sales to China, the world's top importer.
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Economic activity fell 0.48 percent in October, the eighth drop in 10 months, official data showed earlier on Thursday, dashing hopes of an imminent recovery despite a jump in confidence after the impeachment of Temer's leftist predecessor Dilma Rousseff.
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Beijing last week said it would not back out of a fight with Washington, dashing hopes for an easing of tensions after Chinese President Xi Jinping vowed to open China's economy further and lower import duties on some goods.
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KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Talks between the Nepali government and minority groups to resolve a dispute over a new constitution have fallen apart, opposition leaders said on Tuesday, dashing hopes that protests that have led to crippling fuel shortages will end soon.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazil got off to a rough start in Olympic judo on Saturday after local favorite Sarah Menezes suffered a shock defeat and went home without a medal, dashing hopes of an early triumph for the host country.
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KINSHASA (Reuters) - The Catholic Church rejected the official result of Congo's presidential election on Thursday and the loser denounced a "coup", dashing hopes that the country could stage the first uncontested transfer of power in its 59 years of independence.
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U.S. President Donald Trump said he was in no hurry to sign a trade deal with China as a new set of U.S. tariffs on Chinese goods kicked in, dashing hopes the world's top two economies would salvage a last-minute trade deal.
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ATHENS (Reuters) - A new rift between Athens and the International Monetary Fund over pensions and labor reforms has dealt a blow to an initial accord, dashing hopes for a bailout review deal before a meeting of euro zone finance ministers this week.
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ALIAGA, Turkey (Reuters) - A Turkish court decided on Wednesday to keep an American pastor in jail, dashing hopes that he could be released during his trial on terrorism and spying charges, a case that has deepened a rift with NATO ally Washington.
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The tariffs on washers and solar panels triggered memories of a 2014 U.S.-China trade spat over solar panels, which made Hemlock abandon its just-completed Clarksville plant at a loss of 500 initial jobs and dashing hopes for more to come.
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At 4.4 percent of economic output, the shortfall in late 2018 was the biggest since just after the Brexit vote more than two years earlier, dashing hopes that the fall in the value of the pound after the referendum could boost Britain's economy.
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It's down 1.6% since May 5, however, when the president shocked financial markets by announcing on Twitter that he would increase tariffs of 10% on $200 billion to 25%, dashing hopes that the world's two largest economies were nearing a trade resolution.
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Zimbabwe is gripped by a severe U.S. dollar crunch, causing shortages of fuel, food and medicine and dashing hopes among citizens that the economy will quickly recover after years of sputtering under Robert Mugabe, who was removed after a coup in 2017.
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The ERA passed the Republican-led state Senate in January of this year, but a measure to force a floor vote failed in the Republican-led House by one vote in February, dashing hopes that the ERA would be passed in 2019.
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Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland on Tuesday warned that relations with China - which has a population 37 times that of Canada's - continue to be "challenging," dashing hopes that last week's meeting with her Chinese counterpart would lead to a breakthrough in the eight-month stalemate.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan Post Bank won't splurge on domestic stocks even as it shifts away from government bonds in its $1.8 trillion portfolio, the new chief of its parent said, dashing hopes among investors in Japan's equity market that it might go on a spree.
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SKOPJE/ATHENS (Reuters) - Macedonia's president said on Wednesday he would not sign a landmark deal reached with Greece on changing his country's name, dashing hopes of a swift end to a diplomatic dispute that has blocked Skopje's bid to join the European Union and NATO.
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Greek stocks have had at least one false dawn since the country's first EU/IMF bailout in 22012 - the market rose in 213-63 only to fall back - and on Monday, the creditors failed to reach a deal after eight hours of talks, dashing hopes of an immediate breakthrough.
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Bill CassidyWilliam (Bill) Morgan CassidyI'm not a Nazi, I'm just a dude: What it's like to be the other Steve King Washington takes historic step forward on paid parental leave The 23 Republicans who opposed Trump-backed budget deal MORE (R-La.), ultimately failed, dashing hopes for the GOP to repeal ObamaCare any time soon.
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The economy is mired in its worst crisis in a decade, and security forces have in the past week snuffed out five attempts by the main opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) to hold street demonstrations, dashing hopes that the government might live up to promises of becoming more tolerant of dissent than the one it replaced.
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They also reached the FA Cup semi-finals, where they faced Tottenham Hotspur; Paul Gascoigne scored with a free kick from 30 yards after just five minutes and Tottenham ran home 3–1 winners, dashing hopes of a unique second Double. In September 1991, Arsenal paid a club record of £2.5million for Crystal Palace striker Ian Wright, who would go on to spend seven years at the club and become their all-time leading goalscorer in the process. The 1991–92 season saw the club's first entry in the European Cup for 20 years. The European venture went badly; Arsenal were knocked out by Benfica in the second round and failed to make the lucrative group stage.
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McRae then returned to the series for one off drives for Škoda on the 2005 Rally GB and Rally Australia, respectively finishing seventh and retiring due to a clutch problem on the final leg of the rally, the latter dashing hopes for what may otherwise have been only the team's second ever podium place after the 2001 Safari Rally. On 5 August 2006, McRae competed for Subaru in the first live televised American rally in Los Angeles as part of the X-Games. McRae rolled the car on the penultimate corner after landing awkwardly from a jump, which damaged the front bumper and left front tyre. Despite this, McRae kept the car running and continued on to the finish, his time only 0.13 seconds slower than eventual winner Travis Pastrana.
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