The advanced read saw economic activity grow 2.8% in the U.S. during the final quarter of 2011.
For the whole year, economic activity expanded 2.2%, a fairly meager pace that may be repeated in 2013.
Construction activity fell 2.5% in the first quarter and remains more than 18% lower than it was before the start of the financial crisis in 2008.
Every day all this new digital activity is creating 2.5 quintillion bytes of data.
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Reading books is the No. 2 activity by hours consumed, after watching television.
The researchers took into account smoking, weight, physical activity, type 2 diabetes, and other factors that could influence the results.
For the whole year, economic activity expanded only 2.2% in 2012, a fairly meager pace that may be repeated in 2013.
This would shift the average point of activity for adults from 2.4 days to 3.4 days.
Examination of 75 patients showed that the activity of bcl-2 in a tumour was a strong indicator that a patient would respond well to a drug called tamoxifen.
Electricity production, the most reliable indicator of Chinese economic activity, was up only 2.7% over the same month last year.
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Emissions of nitrous oxide -- 40% of which are estimated to come from human activity -- reached 324.2 ppb, up one ppb on the 2010 figure and 120% higher than pre-industrial times.
The Russell 2000 index of small-capitalization stocks also declined, while the Dow Jones Transportation Average an index of 20 shipping, railroad and airline stocks that is considered a bellwether of economic activity dropped 1.2%.
Although timing the resolution to these macro concerns remains challenging, recent bidding activity in Tier 1 and Tier 2 carrier accounts both domestically and abroad leave us very confident about our positioning as these markets rebound.
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The level of financial speculation in commodity trading today may be 2 to 3 times normal activity.
Options activity was brisk on Wednesday, as 2.4 million calls and roughly 2 million puts changed hands on the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE).
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Products like ZEO and Fitbit have been the darlings of the industry for a long time yet there are several others such as the Withings Smart Activity Tracker and the The BodyMedia CORE 2 tracking band.
It's expensive at 0.85% a year in fees, and very liquid, with 2 million shares a day of activity.
The Kobe earthquake of 1995 saw a hit to industrial production of 2.6%, but activity rebounded quickly in the following months.
That pales in comparison to the level of activity on Twitter, which recorded 13.2 million tweets during the three-and-a-half-hour telecast.
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That's up from an estimated monthly average of 28 hours in December, based on the 2 billion hours of combined streaming activity that occurred during the final three months of last year.
The strength of consumer spending, which accounts for about 70% of all US economic activity, helped the US economy to record a 2.5% annualised rate of growth in the first three quarter.
Next, the costs cannot exceed the revenue from the activity--and this limitation is applied before that 2% floor.
The data comes from market-sentiment specialists Marketpsych data who plot around 2, 000 different emotional responses to business activity, daily.
Flex activity, therefore, favored issuers over investors by a 2:1 ratio in July, pushing down new-issue clearing yields across the board.
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If the rental real estate activities are section 162 trades or businesses, the rules in section 469(c)(7) and Sec. 1.469-9 will apply in determining whether a rental real estate activity of a real estate professional is a passive activity for purposes of section 1411(c)(2)(A).
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That chance increased to 2.9% if your return showed business activity.
More notable, 2012 activity was 36% lower than 2010, when filings peaked at 2.9 million properties.
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The seasonally adjusted HSBC Service Sector Business Activity Index fell to 51.4 in March from 54.2 in February.
The researchers said drugs that enhance the activity of calcineurin or NFAT could become a new treatment for type-2 diabetes, in which the beta cells do not produce enough insulin.
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