The GDP slowdown during the first half year caught all the economists, including Bernanke, with their pants down.
"This summer, on the back of a dynamic first half year, Eurotunnel again set new traffic records, " said Jacques Gounon, chairman and chief executive of Groupe Eurotunnel.
Global loan volume fell 61%, and loan volume in the U.S. fell 53% in the first six months of this year from the first half of last year, according to Dealogic.
The Saudi authorities say that investment in the first half of this year was 17 times last year's first-half figure.
Some projects approved by the NDRC, construction of which was scheduled to start in the second half of this year, have been brought forward to the first half of this year, he said.
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Hammond struggled just to pay the bills but earned 15% his first half-year in operation.
Excluding fuel, like-for-like sales in the first half half of the year, which strip out the impact of sales from new stores, rose by 2.2%.
Statistics from Sichuan showed in the first half this year, migrant workers who returned to Sichuan had set up more than 2, 000 businesses with a total revenue over ten billion yuan.
In recent weeks, Wall Street had been hopeful that a slumping housing market that seemed to portend an economic slowdown would lead to a rate cut by the central bank during the first half the year.
China's total exports have already leapt 185% in the first half this year, propelling it from eighth position in the league of exporters to third, behind only Japan and Russia although the volume of exports has declined since the summer.
Its online sales, which have exhibited strong growth throughout thedownturn up 29% in 2008 and 19.6% 2009 and climbed 28.1% through the first half this year should continue to enjoy strong growth, especially now that stores are capable of accessing online inventory to satisfy customers.
The chief executive of Centrica, Sam Laidlaw, says I am painting a misleading picture - that I failed to point out that British Gas's residential supply business had an unusually weak first half last year, and that profits were therefore returning to nearer the norm.
The sector was first into the downturn in the first half of last year and the first out since March 2012.
In the first half of this year, more than half of the 193 people charged with drug offenses were E users.
The strong Lumia performance, together with a sustained high demand for Asha smartphones in the emerging markets, helped the company maintain underlying profitability for the full year despite reporting losses in the first half of the year.
Only eight financial-crisis cases were filed this year, compared with 38 in the first half of last year.
The economy had stumbled badly in the first half of the year, and as the 2nd half began, economic reports coming in for July and August were even worse.
Wage and salary growth has slowed from about 4.5% before inflation year-over-year during the height of QE2 during first half of last year to a meager 3.2% nominal growth year over year since the start of this year.
China's steel production rose 15% year on year in November after flat-lining in the first half of the year.
Growth was 140% in the first half of 2007 and 50% in the first half of this year, according to market research firm NPD Group.
Wang added that ahead of the full launch of TD-LTE, his company will be initiating user trials for TD-LTE data devices and phones throughout 2013 -- the first half of the year for the former, and the second half for the latter.
The U.S. dollar fell about 2% in 2010 and it continued to lose ground against global currencies in the first half of 2011, depreciating 3% in the first half of the year.
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Those pay-per-click ads accounted for 44% of online ad spending in the first half of 2008, up 3% from the first half of last year, while spending on banner ads stayed flat at around 21% of the total.
He expected 2006 to be a tough year for Nissan because of a new product drought in the first half of the year.
Meanwhile, the Federal Reserve and Wall Street are assuring us that the economic slowdown in the first half of the year was temporary, that the current quarter and second half will see a robust recovery.
For instance, net profits of Cheil Jedang, a food and beverage company, last year jumped tenfold, to 106 billion won, and in the first half of this year by 57%, to 94 billion won.
In the first half of 2007, more luxury apartments sold in Manhattan than in any first half of any year since at least 1989.
Eric Chaney, an economist at Morgan Stanley, reckons that output per hour in the euro area grew at an annual rate of 2.6% in the first half of this year twice the pace of 2000-05, the first six years of the single currency's life.
We currently forecast Jones to maintain steady margins across its product segments in 2011 as the firm plans to raise prices on clothes and its more expensive shoes in first half of the year, followed with hikes across all of its products in the second half.
U.S. GDP growth will remain tepid in the first half of the year, before picking up to a near 3% rate during the second half of the year.
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