When he turns away an opportunity for alms giving, he uses the zero growth rationale.
It would also mean the economy saw zero growth for the whole of 2012.
Another eurozone heavyweight economy, France, is also set for contraction, following three consecutive quarters of zero growth.
In fact, in a zero growth environment, innovation is the only realistic path to sustained earnings growth.
Apple is currently being priced as a near-zero growth stock at 9x forward earnings, net of cash.
Without adjusting for inflation, Scottish sales showed zero growth in value for the second quarter in a row.
Yet China clearly flatlined in Q3, when the economy flirted with zero growth and may even have contracted.
Surely, it can maintain a near-zero growth rate to fulfill current market valuations.
Expecting zero growth from a company that has grown NOPAT at 7% compounded annually since 1998 seems overly pessimistic.
Slow or near-zero growth in domestic demand has made the inflexibility of the German labour market ever more costly for businesses.
The Fed keeps interest rates minimal with its eye on unemployment statistics unlikely to recede in a near zero growth economy.
The economy has stalled, with zero growth in the past three months.
Germany is facing its third successive year of sluggish or zero growth.
The Russian beer market had zero growth last year except for the premium beer segment, according to Carlsberg's chief executive Jorgen Rasmussen.
Top marks this time go to Morgan Stanley's forecast of zero growth.
Brazil retail sales were slightly above expectations in August, rising by 0.2 percent month over month and beating market estimates of zero growth.
Put that decline together with volatile financial markets, inventory cutbacks and our spiraling trade deficit and it was easy to project zero growth.
Luis Secco, an economist, argues that with Argentina now risking zero growth, or worse, it will be no soft touch for Brazil's exporters.
Despite all the loose lending promoted by the Fed, we could sink into a decades-long slump of depressed consumerism, cash hoarding and zero growth.
Some analysts expect zero growth in China in the coming months.
The service sector, which accounts for three-quarters of the UK economy, was revised down to a 0.1% contraction, compared with zero growth in the first estimate.
Rohan asserts that the company should be able to grow 30% or more organically for the next two years, even in a low or zero growth environment.
The employment data showed zero growth in August and revised growth numbers for June and July of 45, 000 payroll jobs added, down from 130, 000 previously reported for those months.
The European Central Bank also on Thursday said it has reduced its economic growth forecast for the Euro zone, predicting zero growth in 2013 from its previous forecast of 0.3% growth.
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Even this matters: with the economy currently close to zero growth (second-quarter GDP figures will be released on July 25th) tiny changes make a big difference to headlines and political fortunes.
That compares with zero growth through traditional retail channels.
Merkel is seen as the ring leader of the tax raising solution to cut debt at a time when many debt overloaded peripheral countries, like Portugal and Greece, are facing near zero growth.
Even Britain's economy largely immune from the global downturn last year saw zero growth in the first few months of 2002: the current stockmarket gloom was therefore bound to make the Bank of England cautious.
The ONS gives its final estimates for growth in June, and if other parts of the economy remain unchanged, the economy as a whole would register zero growth, rather than a contraction of 0.1%.
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