The company's shares plunged 20% after the issue was flagged by a broker note earlier.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani had struck a more positive note earlier, saying there was "nothing that cannot be resolved".

However, the VDMA engineering industry association struck a more cautious note earlier this month, forecasting output in the sector would stagnate next year.

I would have answered your note earlier, Mr. Livingston, but I have been waiting, hoping I could give you some more satisfactory reply.

A Bernstein Research note earlier this year also concluded that the EPA rules on air toxics would lead old coal plants into early retirements.

Sanford C. Bernstein analyst Ronny Gal said in a research note earlier this week that odds of the transaction closing were less than 20 percent.

The downgrade "could, alongside market weakness, push Hungary toward engaging more constructively with the IMF and EU," Barclays said in a note earlier on Thursday.

Credit Suisse analysts valued the 66 percent stake in Oyu Tolgoi at $13.3 billion in a note earlier this week.

And, as Sokolov had correctly noted earlier, she could afford the indulgence.

As noted earlier, there are about 500 different ways to personalize this vehicle.

As I noted earlier, a TAB precedes a space in the collating sequence.

Plate tectonics, as we noted earlier, is driven by currents in the mantle.

There was, as had been noted earlier, a vast outpouring of musical creativity.

As noted earlier, we believe the company could pursue additional discretionary investments through 2013.

As I noted earlier, that's only the more obvious reason to bounce this proposal.

But, as noted earlier, that's at odds with what the candidate himself is saying.