An expansion in the short-term yield differentials would make currency hedging more expensive for life insurers.
Service industries booked an expansion in December at the fastest pace since May 2006.
But the big unresolved issue is how such an expansion in education will be paid for.
True, there was an expansion in November, but that followed a contraction in October.
Gross profit increased due to the higher revenue and an expansion in gross margin of 220 basis points.
Virgin says that the business is at the beginning of an expansion in Belgium, South Africa and America.
It is too soon to write off the scope for an expansion in private-sector health care in Britain.
Over this period, real GDP growth has been led by an expansion in the private sector (see second chart below).
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The expected increase in manufacturing capacity would come largely from increased plastics capacity and an expansion in refining extra-light oil for export.
It showed an expansion in orders, unlike the Chicago report, and the chart suggests it may be a leading indicator for the Chicago PMI.
Meanwhile, a survey of manufacturing activity in South Korea indicated an expansion in the sector for the first time in seven months in December.
If an international firm has been planning an expansion in the U.S., it only makes sense to make a move when the dollar is relatively low.
In remaining above the midpoint of 50 for the fourth consecutive month, the reading still signalled an expansion in activity but at a slightly reduced pace.
Obama, who has overseen an expansion in spending, does not have the fiscal credibility that helped give President Bill Clinton the winning political hand in 1995 and 1996.
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The World Bank cut its forecast for global growth last week, projecting an expansion in 2013 of only 2.4%, down from its forecast six months ago of 3%.
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In addition, ICA is seeing an expansion in its membership in Asia, and the Hong Kong offices will enable it to better serve them, says ICA President Wilson Yuen.
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Treasury purchases get sterilized into excess bank reserves without a significant expansion of U.S. money, but some reserves seep out and cause an expansion in foreign money, which is only spent on food.
Export-led growth works well in a world where the price elasticity of demand for the exported goods is effectively infinite, where any decrease in costs will always lead to an expansion in sales.
Both disasters prompted policy makers to ease monetary and fiscal conditions that fueled an expansion in the aggregate demand, especially a construction boom that boosted equity prices, especially shares of companies involved directly or indirectly in reconstruction.
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The rise of the self-sufficient home comes amid an expansion in green homebuilding that is projected to swell to between 29% and 38% of the U.S. residential market by 2016, according to a study by McGraw-Hill Construction and the National Association of Home Builders, up from 17% in 2011.
The Magic started as an expansion team in 1989 and has remained rickety since.
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Barely half the district banks, for example, reported an unambiguous expansion in manufacturing.
The Bobcats were an expansion team in 2004.
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While the smartphone maker argues that the phone does offer an expansion option in the form of a microSD card slot (up to 64GB, no less), some apps still seem to prefer to reside on built-in storage over anything removable -- Amazon's Cloud Player comes to mind.
So, perversely, the process has worked in reverse: it has resulted in an expansion of public-sector inefficiency, financed in part by the private sector.
The first is an expansion by banks in areas such as trading currencies and financing trade.
Indeed, for NYU, this continues an expansion already underway in Downtown Brooklyn.
For Yahoo, the plan will provide an outlet for expansion in developing countries and in rural markets, where Nokia serves billions of customers around the globe.
All of this has led Fed-watchers to conclude that the most likely course of action will be an expansion of QE3 in January 2013, perhaps announced in December.
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Weekend press reports said the British government would opt to build a new runway at Stansted after pollution concerns ruled out an expansion of Heathrow in the near future.
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