Interest bearing debt in June was also up over March the first rise in three quarters.
That is 51 more than the year before and the first rise since 2003.
Mr Robinson said it was the first rise since 2011 and less than inflation.
Japan's shipments to China rose by 3% in January from a year earlier, the first rise since May.
The net-long position rose to 9, 980 contracts, the first rise since April 12.
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Last month the Central Bank raised its benchmark Selic interest rate by 0.75%, the first rise in nearly two years.
In 2012, 36 people died compared to 19 in 2011, which is the first rise in seven years, the county council said.
Dutch business confidence improved as well, its first rise in ten months.
They were set for their first rise three days, but it appears persistent fears about the China growth are weighing on the market.
The first rise was complete before we'd finished our coffee.
In the case of the most-active copper contract traded on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange, Tuesday was the first rise in nine trading sessions, although volume was small with electronic activity only as trading floors remained closed due to Hurricane Sandy.
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Firms bought more computer equipment, the first such rise since the last quarter of 2000.
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He said it was the first above inflation rise for four years and was "regrettable but unavoidable".
The photojournalist, the country's first woman to rise to prominence in her field, chronicled India's tumultuous midcentury of liberation, war and independence.
The first prices to rise when the dollar falls are international commodities.
He may well have wanted to be the first president to rise above the petty politics of Washington, but now that he's here, there's another consideration: winning.
The first is a rise in global inflation and the second is emerging markets intervening in currency markets and then diversify their holding with more gold and less U.S. dollars.
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Relative spending would rise first at Manchester United and then later at Manchester City as both clubs refused to sit still and instead decided to challenge Chelsea on the spending front.
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But with the rise first of big-box book sellers such as Barnes and Noble, the increasing dominance of Wal-Mart and Target as book sellers and the omnipresence of Amazon, this advantage has evaporated.
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In a long shuttered, 19th-century building said to have been the first high-rise in New York City, the designers displayed a restrained color palette of white, black and subtle pastels that included mint and peach.
It reported a 23% rise in first-half pretax profit, but its outlook statement disappointed investors.
The first is the ongoing rise of luxury spending in Tier 2 and 3 cities.
Similarly AMEC reported a 20% rise in first half profits also underpinned by the governments PFI programme.
At first blush, a rise in the unemployment rate sounds like bad news.
But after the closing bell, Apple reported a forecast-busting rise in first-quarter net profit, following a jump in iPhone sales.
Recently, the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) said that mortgage lending had picked up last year, led by a big rise in first-time buyers.
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The bearish thinking is that, if an economic slump occurs, malls will suffer first: Vacancies will rise, their cut of the stores' take will shrivel.
General Electric has reported a 16% rise in first quarter profits, helped by a one-off gain from the sale of its stake in NBC Universal.
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