The more an investment declines in percentage terms, the more it will have to appreciate to get back to square one.

With the labor force shrinking, some economists say, investment in new factories might decline.

In calendar year 2002, the endowment's investments declined 2.8 percent in value.

Your investment may make no profit or even decline in value.

Corporate foreign investment declined only modestly, but is still below its 1997 peak.

When an investment declines, technical analysts do not wait long before selling.

But investment has declined since 1991, when it was $80 million, in part because some American companies have responded to rights protests.

Foreign direct investment declined 73 percent in the first six months of this year, according to central bank statistics.

It is widely used to describe the periods of history when economic trade and investment between countries decline.

At the same time, foreign direct investment declined 9.2 percent to $18.6 billion.