Quarter
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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%.
Long Live China’s SlowdownNEW HAVEN – At 7.7%, China’s annual GDP growth in the first
quarter
of this year was slower than many expected.
While the data were hardly devastating relative to a consensus forecast of 8.2%, many (including me) expected a second consecutive quarterly rebound from the slowdown that appeared to have ended in the third
quarter
of 2012.
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).
In the third
quarter
of this year, GDP contracted, on a year-on-year basis, not just in well-known cases like Greece and Portugal, but also in Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, and the Czech Republic.
Of the fossil energy sources - primarily oil - that African countries do exploit, only a
quarter
is consumed locally.
First, there was a 2.2% annualized decline from the first
quarter
of 2008 through the second
quarter
of 2009.
In the eight recoveries since the early 1950’s (excluding the brief pop following the credit-controls-induced slump in the 1980’s), the stock-adjustment response lifted real consumption growth by 6.1%, on average, for five quarters following business-cycle downturns; spurts of 7-8% growth were not uncommon for a
quarter
or two.
Moreover, the strongest quarterly gain was a 4.1% increase in the fourth
quarter
of 2010.
In the second
quarter
of 2004, Chinese exports to Mexico grew by 67%, while Mexico’s exports to China fell by 1.3 %.
In 1970, a
quarter
of all pensioners lived in poverty; today, the figure is only 4%.
As the world’s largest polluter, accounting for roughly a
quarter
of global carbon emissions, America’s reluctance to do more is perhaps understandable, if not forgivable.
As a result, total compensation per hour is rising more rapidly, with the annual rate increasing to 3.1% in the first
quarter
of 2015, from 2.5% in 2014 as a whole and 1.1% in 2013.
In this environment, the pass-through of dollar movements into non-fuel US import prices is one of the lowest in the world, in both the short term (one
quarter
out) and the longer term (two years out), for three key reasons.
According to the CSO, as a result of the methodological change, annual output growth in the second
quarter
of 2014 stood at 8.2%, up sharply from the original estimate of 5.3%.
They are trying to cook up ways to discipline financial firms, albeit without conspicuous success so far, as demonstrated by the large sums stashed away for employee compensation by Goldman Sachs after its most recent profitable
quarter.
Poor, dictatorial, marginalized from Europe, Spain's experience during the last quarter- century is one of history's most successful transition stories, as it became a prosperous, thriving democracy and ceased being a major exporter of brains.
In 1900, Europe accounted for a
quarter
of the world’s population.
Then he was in Brazil, where he was impressed by the country’s use of bio-fuel to power a
quarter
of its automotive traffic.
And, by streamlining the exchange of information and facilitating coordination of complex tasks, the Chinese social-media app WeChat – with 938 million users as of the first
quarter
of 2017 – has contributed to previously unimaginable productivity gains.
The vast majority of respondents were from a migrant background, and a
quarter
were Muslims whose families had been in Germany for a generation or more.
“Green” eco-activists, while feeling awkward about support from this quarter, nonetheless find them useful allies.
In the US, revised data released at the beginning of December show productivity up only 0.6% year on year in the third
quarter.
The Pentagon's budget is not simply big: it accounts for more than one half of all US government spending on research and development: in France, defense spending is only around a
quarter
of the total.
Even China itself uses the renminbi in only about a
quarter
of its international trade, and its international finance remains dollar-denominated.
The idea is that when shareowners furiously trade their stock, corporate executives feel pressed to ensure high earnings every quarter, so that the share price does not fall.
Nor will it make corporate executives less concerned about the next quarter’s results.
In the last
quarter
of the twentieth century, many central banks used intermediate targets, including monetary aggregates.
Manufacturing surcharges therefore amount to nearly a
quarter
of profit, putting a further squeeze on low-profit manufacturers.
A third of the world’s mammal species and more than a
quarter
of all known reptiles and bird species can be found there.
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