However, even consumer-driven processing models with operations in Europe are facing increased scrutiny with slower consumer activity expected to take hold as we head into the second half of 2012 and 2013.
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Only in the platinum group metals, where speculators shed bullish positions, was the activity as expected.
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Global monitoring has shown an earlier than expected rise in virus activity across Europe and Japan.
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Economic activity is expected to receive a boost from accelerated approval of public infrastructure projects, the IMF said on Tuesday.
Booking activity was expected to deteriorate through the first half of 2012.
Yet recent results have held up better than expected and recent order activity suggests that the worst may be over for CBI.
Similar activity is expected in 2012, especially as companies sitting on piles of cash elect to reward shareholders through more dividend payouts.
The expected rise in acquisition activity comes as the euro has slipped 16.3% in the past year and 12.4% this year alone.
Beneath the greater-than-expected expansion in economic activity during the third quarter was a marked increase in government spending, particularly in defense spending.
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The cost of reviving the 2% tax on wages for the middle class is expected to reduce economic activity by at least 0.5%.
They recently released a survey which they say shows that citizens -- even in the supposedly more conservative housing-estate heartland -- are more tolerant toward gay activity than expected.
Driven by a better than expected reading on manufacturing activity from the Chicago PMI in the U.S., as well as continued relief that the debt crisis in Greece has been at least temporarily defused, U.S. and world stocks shot higher again on Thursday.
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Rising rig counts in oil rich plays is expected to offset the lower activity in gas.
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In China, stimulus is expected to push up economic activity.
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Nonetheless, it is still expected to indicate weakening business activity.
As expected, they found increased activity in the somatosensory cortex (the part of the brain responsible for the sensation of touch) when a volunteer was tickled either by a member of the team, or by himself.
Halliburton is well positioned to benefit from the burst in exploration and production activity that is expected as oil prices continue to climb higher against the backdrop of strong demand recovery and the political upheaval in the Middle East.
Continued strength in these markets poses the greatest upside risk in the near term, but weaker-than-expected prints in the regional manufacturing indices earlier this week suggest that manufacturing activity has slowed more substantially than previously expected.
Separately, a measure of euro zone manufacturing activity was better than expected.
The world market place was impacted late in the week by a weaker-than-expected U.S. business activity report from the Philadelphia Federal Reserve on Thursday morning.
With some of the largest oil and gas companies holding massive amounts of cash while dealing with declining output, questions and rumors about increased energy sector mergers and acquisitions activity are to be expected.
One such concerns mine-sweeping, a non-combat activity that Japan might be expected to undertake for American troops making a landing on, say, a Korean peninsula at war.
"Given that the volcanic activity is continuing, it is expected that New Zealand airspace may be affected by these plumes for at least a week, " it said in a statement.
Second-to-second changes in its activity might, though, be expected to be correlated with changes in the amygdalas, because of its role in regulating them. fMRI allows such correlations to be measured.
Consumer spending, which makes up about 70% of the U.S. gross domestic product, is expected to be about in line with its activity last year, which had more pent-up demand and a larger trough to climb.
Cooling demand, explained Graf, was responsible for the deterioration in their expected performance for FedEx express, led by lower activity in Asia.
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Now, with more elections in prospect, normal politicking is likely to resume, and General Musharraf is expected slowly to relax his restrictions on public political activity.
The Philadelphia Federal Reserve's index of manufacturing activity showed a bigger-than-expected contraction in August, one day after a New York reading showed a contraction for the first time this year.
Officials with the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise said Wednesday in their first 2013 summer outlook that a dry winter and expected warming trend mean the potential for significant fire activity will be above normal on the West Coast, in the Southwest and portions of Idaho and Montana.
The Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia's March business-activity index showed expansion, while economists had expected contraction.
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