The government claims that the economy will record positive growth in the fiscal year to March after two years of contraction, after growing by 0.6% in the first quarter of 2000.
After a slight contraction at the end of 2008, the economy has been growing modestly this year.
Despite mostly avoiding the bank crisis that plagued so many countries, Sweden suffered a sharp contraction after the economic meltdown a 5 percent drop in GDP in 2009.
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On average, employment took about 19 months to recover after an economic contraction, and since the 2007 recession had such an impact on GDP, it makes sense that hiring will take longer than normal to pick up.
The Philadelphia Federal Reserve's index of manufacturing activity showed a bigger-than-expected contraction in August, one day after a New York reading showed a contraction for the first time this year.
Lim forecasts a 17% increase in Singapore's corporate earnings next year, after a 15% contraction in 1998.
The economy is likely to shrink this year by at least 2%, after a 2% contraction in 2009.
Through steady price increases, despite year after year of volume contraction net income has continued a seemingly inexorable ascent.
The economy eked out a 0.5% expansion in the fiscal year ended in March after two years of contraction, but that is not helping.
After a 15% contraction in GDP last year, it has recently showed a modest rebound, but Ukraine is still plagued by a large fiscal deficit, unsustainable debt and staggering levels of corruption and red tape.
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It is certainly fair to expect some near-term contraction in profits especially after coming off decade-high peaks, but I think investors are foolish to expect that contraction to be permanent.
We have seen economic growth, as opposed to contraction, for quarter after quarter after quarter.
It sees GDP contracting 0.5% in 2013, after a 1.5% contraction this year.
Capital goods production rose 9.5% after a 1.7% contraction in January.
U.K. gross domestic product fell 0.2% in the first quarter of this year after a 0.3% contraction in the final three months of 2011, raising fresh questions about the wisdom of the government's plan to slash spending and cut hundreds of thousands of public sector jobs to reduce its debts.
The company expects that in conjunction with the strength displayed by its construction activity index, the economy will rebound by 0.8% in the first quarter after an unexpected 0.5% contraction at the end of 2010.
Five years later, after the market had suffered its worse contraction since the 1930s, Michaels had Warren Buffett reinterviewed to get his views on where the market would go next, especially since the prevailing feeling was all doom and gloom.
Looking ahead in 2013, the economy is likely to regain a sounder position in the first quarter, after expanding for 13 consecutive quarters before the contraction in the fourth-quarter.
Fears of economic contraction continue to grow, and after two years of histrionic punditry over the inevitable return of severe inflationary pressures, public gaze has begun to shift towards the truly frightening prospect of deflation.
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The data comes a day after a separate study by Markit said the manufacturing contraction in the eurozone worsened in March.
Essentially matching the moves in the global equity markets the common currency fell slightly after German factory orders posted a 0.5% contraction for the month of May.
After two days of pacing, his legs gave out and he was reduced to a contraction of limbs, lying in his own waste.
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