Between January and June Japanese firms made 262 foreign acquisitions, according to Recof, a consultancy: a record for the first half of a year.
"Somebody" also marks the first time a song has sold over 5 million in the first half of a year, though Gotye's smash wasn't alone in that feat, joined by Fun.
Wage and salary growth has slowed from about 4.5% before inflation year-over-year during the height of QE2 during first half of last year to a meager 3.2% nominal growth year over year since the start of this year.
Suning is among a number of big Chinese retailers reporting sharply lower profits in the first half of 2013 from a year earlier.
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"The industry experienced a number of headwinds during the first half of the year, including a significant adverse movement in exchange rates, due to the relative strength of the US dollar, combined with higher fruit, " Fyffes said.
China's railway ministry saw infrastructure investment fall 39% in the first half of 2012 from a year earlier.
U.S. GDP growth will remain tepid in the first half of the year, before picking up to a near 3% rate during the second half of the year.
Its return on equity in the first half of the year was a measly 1.3%.
The report noted that so-called "mega-lawsuits" had nearly tripled in the first half of the year as a result of the credit crisis and extreme market volatility.
"There is a possibility that the company could face a liquidity crisis in the first half of next year, " said Henry Diamond, a diversified services analyst with Credit Suisse First Boston.
He expected 2006 to be a tough year for Nissan because of a new product drought in the first half of the year.
Analysts said China remained on course for a moderate recovery in the first half of the year after slowing to 7.8 per cent growth in 2012, its weakest year in more than a decade.
Overall figures were hard to verify but one local newspaper report said that exports fell by more than 50% in the first half of this year because of a collapse in Western orders.
Based on current sales, the first half of this year will bring a rise in digital ad sales of about 30% says Chuck Cordray, senior vice president and general manager of Hearst Magazines Digital Media.
Well, that's pretty much the kind of cluster we're going to be running into with the Android camp come the first half of next year thanks to a rumored bumper crop from HTC, some Sony Ericsson gear, undoubtedly a few lookers out of Moto, and now this gear from Acer.
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However, Commerzbank's have climbed even faster, and its return on equity slumped to a miserable 4.5% in the first half of this year, far behind its rivals and a long way short of its long-term target of 15%.
So if you make half a million dollars a year, you still get tax relief on the first half of your income.
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"Baltic is entering a fresh phase of progress, building on its first very successful year and a half since opening and we are very fortunate to have attracted someone of Stephen's reputation and exceptional abilities to take Baltic forward to even greater achievements".
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The number of empty shops in Scotland has increased in the first half of this year, according to a new report.
Scottish firms expect to see little improvement in trading conditions in the first half of this year, according to a new survey.
The Scottish beer division's operating profit increased by 20% in the first half of the financial year, on a 7% rise in revenues.
"This summer, on the back of a dynamic first half year, Eurotunnel again set new traffic records, " said Jacques Gounon, chairman and chief executive of Groupe Eurotunnel.
Customs data showed that China imported 9, 300 tonnes of polysilicon from the EU in the first half of the year, an increase of 30.8% from a year earlier.
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Another report released on Monday, by Advertising Age, shows that the U.S. media business recovered in 2010, with revenue for top firms gaining 6.1% during the first half of the year, compared to a 3.8% loss for 2009.
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But on August 3rd new data showed that in the first half of the year, energy intensity nudged up by a mere 0.09% compared with the same period a year ago.
Already being hit up by a few anonymous mobile producers, CSR plans to get these things shipping "during the first half of this year, " and hopes to start turning a profit on them by 2008.
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The same source reports that disputes in the first half of 2009 were 30% higher than a year earlier.
Average leisure property prices in London, New York, Paris, Tokyo and Sydney recovered from a 3.8% drop in the first half of 2011 to see a 0.3% increase in the second half of the year.
Meanwhile, the Federal Reserve and Wall Street are assuring us that the economic slowdown in the first half of the year was temporary, that the current quarter and second half will see a robust recovery.
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