Here is how these hotly criticized and much hated China financials performed in the first quarter, second quarter, first half, since the start of the second half and year to date.
This suggests the market (for now) expects cocoa prices to be flat in both the first and second half of 2010.
The consensus is for it to grow by all of 0.4%, but there's going to be a big difference between the first and second half of the year.
We didn't do that in the first half, the second half we got there a little bit.
After the calm, confident pace of the first half, the second half feels relatively rushed (though here I am suggesting that 154 minutes might not be long enough).
"We knew it was going to be a very delicate, very difficult game, but we weren't able to maintain the rhythm we had in the first half in the second half, " reflected Dunga.
The Italian champions ended a run of nine successive draws in European competition as Claudio Marchisio, Arturo Vidal and Sebastian Giovinco scored in the first half, while second-half substitute Fabio Quagliarella headed the other against the Danish league winners.
"We had three big chances in the first half and in the second half, we dominated, " added the Hammers manager.
Meanwhile smartphone shipments to India grew by 75% in the second half of 2012 from the first half, and the country is the second biggest market for the Android operating system.
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Having said this, I think the declines will moderate slightly for several reasons: first, comparisons with the second half of 2011 are easier than they have been in the first half.
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The fly-half did better with his first kick of the second half, his penalty returning the Ospreys to the lead - but the advantage did not last long.
In the U.S., given weakness in general manufacturing and softening in autos, he sees a 10%-15% decline in the the 2012 second half from the first half.
What the researchers found is that from the first to the second half of the study, optimistic participants updated their estimates based on the information given, but only if the information on actual averages was better than expected.
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If the closing stages of the first half were entertaining, the second half failed to capture the imagination.
"We had problems closing down the passing lanes, also on the outsides throughout the whole first half and also in the second half, " Klinsmann said.
The visitors would fashion the first chance of the second half, and it was one from which they should have scored, but Hugo Rodallega put his first-time side-foot effort wide after being found at the near post by Victor Moses.
While NEC isn't making any promises for the near future just yet, Rohm says that it'll begin shipping its first custom ICs in the second half of this year, and that the first products using them could start showing up by the end of 2009.
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Inflation and commodity prices will roar back and kill the rally sometime between the second half of 2009 and first half of 2010.
Having been second best for much of the first half, Motherwell needed a massive lift at the start of the second half and Rangers gifted them a route back into the match.
After a frantic back-and-forth first half, LIU Brooklyn opened the second half with a 35-31 lead.
Glenties, who had a wind advantage in the first half, went ahead in the second half thanks to a Leon Thompson goal, which saw them lead 1-4 to 0-5.
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Spanish star Michu grabbed the second with five minutes remaining of the first half before Dyer scored his second goal just after the break after being set up by Wayne Routledge.
Leeds controlled the first period of the second half before Irish regained the upper hand.
Inside the first minute of the second half, Brady scored to make it 2-0 to the Paisley club.
Miami missed its first shot of the second half, then didn't miss another field-goal attempt for eight minutes.
It was the first stop of the second half for the Baggies keeper.
"From the first minute of the second half we saw a change of attitude, " Mourinho's assistant Aitor Karanka told reporters.
And the Scotland midfielder was injured in the first exchange of the second half after coming down awkwardly on his ankle.
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The visitors carved out the first opportunity of the second half when Barrett went close with a header from Lovell's cross.
Brazil's Oscar gave them the lead in the 43rd minute after a pass from Frank Lampard, who grabbed the second in first half stoppage time.
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