• And given that he recently signed a six-fight 30-month deal with Showtime, his activity rate might increase.

    WSJ: Mayweather's Next Opponent: History

  • Women have probably penetrated about as far into the job market as they will go: since the early 1990s, their economic activity rate has risen only slightly.

    ECONOMIST: Why Britain is becoming less socially mobile

  • The immigrant rate of entrepreneurial activity declined slightly in 2009, but remained substantially higher than the native-born rate.

    FORBES: Boomers are Driving a New Entrepreneurship Boom

  • Eastern Canada has a relatively low rate of earthquake activity, according to Natural Resources Canada, but there have been large earthquakes before, with about four exceeding magnitude 4 per year.

    CNN: Quake reported in eastern Canada

  • Contrary to what most of you might guess, the highest rate of entrepreneurial activity over the last few years is not Gen-Y young upstarts, but Baby Boomers in the 55-64 year age group.

    FORBES: Boomers are Driving a New Entrepreneurship Boom

  • Friday's financial market activity reduced the chance of a rate increase at 24%, from 91% a week ago, according to Lehman's models.

    FORBES

  • Over that same thirty-year period, the U.S. has been experiencing a slow, but steady decline in the overall rate of new startup activity.

    FORBES: The Great Startup Slowdown

  • However, future activity may not keep up this rate of growth, since applications for building permits for the future fell 3.9%, to an annual rate of 902, 000.

    BBC: US housing starts best since June 2008

  • "The recent slowing down in monthly house price inflation, together with further evidence of moderation in housing market activity, suggest that the interest rate rises since last summer are having an impact on the market, " said the Halifax's chief economist Martin Ellis.

    BBC: NEWS | Business | House price inflation easing off

  • The upshot of all this activity is a marked reduction in the rate of new infections, though sceptics point out that the fall began before ARV use and circumcision became widespread, and that the role of behavioural changes (including a greater willingness to use condoms) should thus not be underestimated.

    ECONOMIST: The 19th International AIDS Conference: Looking into the future | The

  • Usk's record over the past 12 months has been exemplary, says the trust, with an assault rate of just 0.3%, almost double the UK's prisoner activity levels (37.9 hours) and a drug abuse rate of 3.6%.

    BBC: Prison faces poor drugs record

  • On the domestic front, business activity among Texas-area manufacturers is expanding at a slower rate this month than in January, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas' general business activity index.

    WSJ: Stocks Falter

  • Applications for building permits, which are an indicator of future building activity, jumped 12% to an annual rate of 894, 000 in September.

    BBC: Fresh signs of recovery in US housing

  • "The substantial decrease in the clinical consultation rate for influenza shows that flu activity is declining in Wales, " said Dr Tony Jewell, the chief medical officer for Wales.

    BBC: 'Dramatic drop' in flu in Wales say GPs

  • On Wednesday, a joint study by Babson and Baruch Colleges reported that the average rate of early-stage entrepreneurial activity in the U.S. rose to nearly 13% last year, up from 7% in 2008 and the highest level in more than a decade.

    WSJ: Startup America's New Partnership

  • Better readings for U.S. manufacturing activity and consumer spending point to a faster growth rate in the fourth quarter, analysts still say.

    FORBES: Congress, Europe Keep Stocks Cautious

  • Their most publicised activities, such as using derivatives to speculate heavily on interest-rate or exchange-rate movements, are hardly the kind of activity that will endear them to politicians.

    ECONOMIST: The villains of global finance deserve a better reputation

  • On the one hand, a combination earnings growth and liquid capital markets will depress default activity across the general leveraged loan population, keeping the rate inside the historical average of 3.4%.

    FORBES: Connect

  • Activity in Eurozone manufacturing shrank last month at its fastest rate in three months (46.8 vs. 47.9) and new orders also declined at a swift pace, in-turn suggesting the industry will continue to struggle.

    FORBES: EURO: No April Fool Joke

  • Only downward surprises on current inflation and activity could pave the way for another cut in the Selic rate.

    FORBES: In Brazil, Who Let The Doves Out?

  • In recent years its growth rate, thanks largely to the canal and the activity associated with it, has been the highest in Latin America: 7%-plus in 2004 and 2005, 8.5% in 2006, 12.1% in 2007 and 10.7% last year.

    ECONOMIST: The Panama Canal

  • Consumer confidence remains in the doldrums even after the central bank this month lowered interest rates to a record low 2.75%, adding to a string of rate-cuts since late 2011 designed to spur activity in weaker parts of the economy such as retail sales and housing.

    WSJ: Australia Tops 'Better Life' List

  • "Activity on the Main Board will be slow mainly because of interest rate concerns, " says Patrick Lim, president of the Malaysian Investors' Association.

    CNN: A PUNTER'S SURVIVAL GUIDE

  • All these plans translate to sustainable economic activity (think jobs) at a time when the national unemployment rate is stuck at over 8 percent and tens of millions of Americans are trapped outside the workforce, desperately trying to get in.

    FORBES: Obama's Smokescreen Obscures Smart Energy Policies

  • The entrepreneurship rate in the Kauffman Index and the unemployment rate run in opposite directions because of the countervailing forces underlying entrepreneurial activity.

    FORBES: Guest post by Jordan Zachary Bell-Masterson

  • Some congressional staffers understand this to mean the same rate must be applied down to the individual program, project and activity level, leaving scant room for tradeoffs.

    FORBES: Budget Uncertainties Provoke Panic In Defense Sector

  • Finance Secretary John Swinney said the SNP government had made increasing Scotland's sustainable economic growth rate with opportunities for all to flourish the purpose to which its activity was directed.

    BBC: Government's economic strategy debate part 1

  • 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.

    BBC: US consumer spending in March beats forecasts

  • But, those rate readouts can be quite useful while involved in any sort of physical activity, making them a necessary hindrance.

    ENGADGET

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