It hit an all-time high of 5.4% in the July-September quarter, according to latest central-bank data.
Developers can now create web software, mobile apps or Google Motion Charts based on World Bank data.
The index is compiled on a quarterly basis using official government statistics or central bank data where available.
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World Bank data shows that Brazil, the country with the strongest internal market in Latin America, is also the least trade-dependent economy in UNASUR.
Central bank data last week showed the current-account gap widened to a record 6.7% of GDP in the October-December quarter, from 5.4% in the preceding quarter.
Nodding to World Bank data that it takes 151 days to clear formal hoops to open for business in Indonesia, he vows to more than halve that.
Bank gets data for ImpactSpace partly from his own reporting for ImpactIQ, along with information supplied by some partners, such as the Aspen Fund.
Hackers have been after passwords, bank account data and other personal information used for identity theft or years, but now cyber criminals appear to have a new target: airline miles.
Graph Search capitalizes on Facebook's massive bank of data about its users, or "social graph, " to seek out friends, or other users who have made their information public, using information about them.
The bank will soon report data on international bank lending quarterly, rather than just twice a year, and it hopes to help spot incipient crises by providing information on borrowers' obligations at home as well as abroad.
Net-natives like the Influencers see the Web as more than just a data bank.
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Foreign investors have been net buyers of gilts since July, according to Bank of England data.
According to the Global Soil Moisture Data Bank, global soil moisture increased throughout the 20th century at almost all sites.
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Wendler hopes to build up a broader data bank of personal profiles, which will include age, gender, religious and ethnic background, to advance the software.
Fiserv already uses some of its bank customers' data to spot fraud, even if it can't yet serve as an early warning signal of potentially sleazy activity.
Bankinter, a Spanish bank, developed data-mining techniques to such an extent that it has been able to set up a useful business as a private detective agency for suspicious spouses.
Bank of America shares fell 3 percent in trading the day after Mr. Assange made his threat against a nameless bank, and while the stock has since recovered, the prospect of a Bank of America data dump from WikiLeaks remains a concern, said Moshe Orenbuch, an analyst with Credit Suisse.
The information gathered by Perfect Citizen could also have applications beyond the critical infrastructure sector, officials said, serving as a data bank that would also help companies and agencies who call upon NSA for help with investigations of cyber attacks, as Google did when it sustained a major attack late last year.
The Bank of England describes the Merlin numbers like this: "these data are not collected under the Bank of England's statistical code of practice and definitions of data vary across banks".
George Buckley, at Deutsche Bank, said the data told two stories about the jobs market.
For example, end of day operations in a bank will use a data warehouse database.
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The IRS and DOJ have a goldmine of data from bank deals, whistleblower claims.
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Much has happened since 2005, when the World Bank last collected its data, but the relative orders of magnitude are still striking.
According to the Central Bank, February GDP data from the IBC-Br monthly figures showed the economy contracting by 0.23% month over month (seasonally adjusted).
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In 2009, Assange told the newswire IDG that he possessed five gigabytes of data from Bank of America, which was more than he could easily publish at the time.
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Americans are borrowing more to pay for college while reducing other debt as a weak job market prompts more people to go to school and tuition keeps climbing, new Federal Reserve Bank of New York data show.
The 16-digit account number stored in your card's magnetic stripe zooms across a leased phone line to the merchant's bank, zips under the Pacific to Visa's data center outside Tokyo and rides the Visa network to the data center of your issuing bank in Delaware.
Anubhuti Sahay, an economist at Standard Chartered Bank, said Monday's data should come as a "big relief" to the central bank.
These sites, which claim to have bank-level security, automatically import data from users' credit cards, loans, and bank, brokerage and 401(k) accounts, and break down spending into categories, such as groceries, clothing and coffee.
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