Indeed, the economy shrank by 3.5 year on year in the first quarter.

Though second quarter GDP growth was weak the euro zone average was only 0.3 year on year third quarter data are indicating a sustained economic pick up in the second half of the year.

Chinese demand increased 36 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2004, year on year.28

For example, trade in Guangdong Province and Hong Kong in the first quarter of 2013 increased by 91.6 year on year.

And about a quarter of 16 19 year olds in the labor force are unemployed.

BEIJING China s GDP is estimated to have grown 8.7 year on year in 2009 once again the highest rate in the world with the fourth quarter increase reaching 10.7 , compared to 6.3 in the fourth quarter of 2008.

As a result, by the fourth quarter of 2007 one year before the global financial crisis hit China s economy started to cool. The quarterly growth rate decelerated from 13 in the fourth quarter of 2008 to 9 in the third quarter of 2009.

In the first quarter of this year, the eurozone s public debt ratio actually rose, to 92.2 of GDP.

Official data suggest that the US economy entered into a recession in the first quarter of this year.

Quarter after quarter the macroeconomic news from the United States teaches the same lesson real GDP growth at a sustained rate of 3 per year is not enough to increase America's employment level.

My Government supports the programme of work for the first quarter of this year, as outlined by Ambassador Denisov.

Indeed, the economy is expected to have shrunk by another 2.6 year on year in the second quarter, with growth set to resume only in July September.

NEW HAVEN At 7.7 , China s annual GDP growth in the first quarter of this year was slower than many expected.

One could expect such adjustments to be completed within the first quarter of the year following the expenditures and billing.

Until the fourth quarter of last year, the US economic recovery that began in the summer of 2009 was decidedly anemic.

Intensive work will have to be done in the last quarter of the year for us to see any positive results.

Yields on ten year US bonds are now 2.94 , a 58 increase since the first quarter of this year, causing the interest rate gap between two and ten year bonds to widen to 248 basis points.

The latest data hint at such a possibility, with the tertiary sector (services) expanding at an 8.3 annual rate in the first quarter of this year the third consecutive quarter of acceleration and a half percentage point faster than the 7.8 first quarter gain recorded by the secondary sector (manufacturing and construction).

As a result, by the fourth quarter of 2007 one year before the global financial crisis hit China s economy started to cool.

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The economy therefore limped along year after year, with real GDP in the final quarter of each year less than 2 higher than it had been a year earlier. Employment grew more slowly than the population, and annual real wage increases averaged only about 1 .

The Committee is required to produce an annual report on its work for the previous year, which will be presented to the Secretary General during the first calendar quarter of each year.

Second quarter German GDP has stalled after a surprisingly strong first quarter.

Some of the banks did report earnings in the first quarter of this year, mostly based on accounting legerdemain and trading profits (read speculation).

Annualized real consumption growth over the subsequent eight quarter period from the third quarter of 2009 through the second quarter of 2011 averaged 2.1 .

Consider the US. Though annual GDP growth is estimated to have rebounded to 4 in the second quarter of 2014, following the 2.1 first quarter contraction, that still leaves average growth in the first half of the year at a measly 1 .

Maybe the stockholder base was too short term oriented a quarter century ago maybe the original 1.2 year (mean) average holding period was too short.

By the third quarter of 2012, industrial enterprises receivables totaled 8.2 trillion renminbi ( 1.3 trillion), up 16.5 year on year, forcing many to borrow even more to fill the gap, which has driven up debt further.

Any adjustments reported in the final report have always been recorded by agencies in the subsequent year . One could expect such adjustments to be completed within first quarter of the year following the expenditures and billing.

In the first quarter of this year, Chinese banks foreign exchange purchases skyrocketed to a record 1.2 trillion ( 195 billion) more than double last year s total.

If you represent the Earth's lifetime by a single year, say from January when it was made to December, the 21st century would be a quarter of a second in June a tiny fraction of the year.

Less than a quarter of the world s children living with HIV have access to treatment, and up to a million people still die of malaria each year.

Five year real earnings growth on the S P 500 set an all time record in the period ending in the first quarter of 2007, at 192 .

Space and Time (Ar) links to UN statistics which show that Arabs read a quarter of a page a year on average, while Americans read 11 books.

a quarter of a millimeter.

A quarter million? A million?

Annual GDP growth slowed significantly in the last quarter, to 4.4 , consumer price inflation is high, and the current account and budget deficits last year were too large.

First, there was a 2.2 annualized decline from the first quarter of 2008 through the second quarter of 2009.

Data collection took place during the first quarter in nine countries, with two more beginning in the second quarter.

Meanwhile, interest rates on bank loans to nonfinancial enterprises remain close to 7 , despite having fallen slightly over the last year. And, in the second quarter of this year, the annualized interest rate on loans to small nonfinancial corporations surpassed 25 .

These policies should allow Colombia s economy to grow barely this year, but only as long as the world economy begins to stabilize before the end of the first quarter.

The key word here is should. Today s 100 million Mexicans have real incomes at purchasing power parity of roughly 10,000 per year, a quarter of the current US level.

Cardiovascular diseases account for 13 million deaths in low and middle income countries each year, more than a quarter of the entire death toll, and risk factors are growing.

Thirdly, my Government has high expectations of the analytical work that will be done by the CTED when it becomes fully operational during the first quarter of this year.