New homes were started at the fastest rate since July 2008 in September, official figures show.
In the past two years non-defense federal spending has grown at the fastest rate since 1992.
That is the fastest rate of like-for-like sales growth since December 2009, the group said.
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Last year, after all, global GDP grew by 5.1%, the fastest rate in a generation.
Last year, the world's total output grew by almost 5%, its fastest rate for 16 years.
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It showed that in January the service sector was growing at its fastest rate since March 2011.
Indeed in the second quarter they were declining at the fastest rate since the start of the crisis.
The US economy grew at its fastest rate in two years in the first quarter, revised figures show.
Companies added to inventory levels at the fastest rate since 1998 (and the second fastest on record).
Of the three types of coniferous trees studied, pines were found to be dying at the fastest rate.
In other news Tuesday, the German economic expectations (ZEW) survey declined at fastest rate in over a year.
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In the late 1990s, the black-white wage differential closed at the fastest rate since the civil rights era.
In other EU-related news Tuesday, the German economic expectations (ZEW) survey declined at fastest rate in over a year.
Despite high prices, last year the world economy grew at its fastest rate for a quarter of a century.
Migration from other parts of America means that the state's population is growing at the second-fastest rate in America.
There is particular weakness in German manufacturing, which was contracting in June at its fastest rate in three years.
Firms also continued to cut employment at the second-fastest rate since January 2010.
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The region's labor force is growing by 3% to 4% a year, the fastest rate of increase in the world.
As governments subsequently slashed tariffs, a middle class emerged and poverty plummeted at the fastest rate in the country's history.
Permanent salaries increased at the fastest rate in Aberdeen, while the strongest rise in temp hourly pay was posted in Glasgow.
India's industrial production is now dropping at its fastest rate since 1993, and the rupee continues to weaken as a result.
Global investors are piling into Japan at the fastest rate in several years, sending the stock market up 5.8% last week.
Permanent salaries rose at the fastest rate in Aberdeen, while the strongest rise in temp hourly pay was posted in Glasgow.
The improved trends in output and new orders prompted businesses to record the fastest rate of job creation for five months.
New homes have been selling at the fastest rate in 19 years.
The core index increased at its fastest rate since summer in 2008.
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The output index grew at the fastest rate since March, but the prices index was at its lowest for over a year.
Output per worker per hour grew at an annual pace of 9.4% in the third quarter, the fastest rate for 20 years.
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