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With concerns rising over a moribund real estate market and consumer confidence on the wane, the People’s Bank of China emulated the Fed move with its own 50 basis point cut to its reserve requirement ratio for banks and is injecting cash into the financial system by selling sovereign bonds.
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Jeff Cox, CNBC, 27 Sep. 2024
Production, predictably enough, is also on the wane; the NFL average of 1.2 passing touchdowns per game is the lowest the metric’s been since 1993.
—Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 27 Sep. 2024
The usefulness of these formerly fun discourse pictures is on the wane.
—Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 11 Sep. 2024
By the mid 1970s, the band’s popularity was on the wane, and Tito and his brothers were chafing under their exclusive Motown deal.
—Abid Rahman, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
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Jeff Cox, CNBC, 27 Sep. 2024
Production, predictably enough, is also on the wane; the NFL average of 1.2 passing touchdowns per game is the lowest the metric’s been since 1993.
—Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 27 Sep. 2024
The usefulness of these formerly fun discourse pictures is on the wane.
—Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 11 Sep. 2024
By the mid 1970s, the band’s popularity was on the wane, and Tito and his brothers were chafing under their exclusive Motown deal.
—Abid Rahman, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
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“On the wane.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/on%20the%20wane. Accessed 7 Nov. 2024.
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