Bank of China, the first of China's Big Four banks to report half-year profits, also warned that international markets remained "sharply precarious".
Housing starts hit a four-year high with the latest report out this morning, rising 15% to 870, 000, handily topping Wall Street estimates.
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Consumer demand for personal computers hit a four-year low in July, according to a report published on September 10th by Odyssey, a San Francisco research firm.
Co-authored by the EPA, NHTSA and the California Air Resources Board (CARB), the September 2010 Interim Joint Technical Assessment Report examines four fuel economy standards for model year 2025, ranging from 47 MPG to 62 MPG.
The Feeding for Life Foundation report, published in October last year, suggested one in four toddlers in the UK is vitamin D deficient.
In most states, the percentage of an average family's income used for a public four-year college -- after financial aid -- has increased, the report said.
But Serco met four out of five standards assessed, compared with only one in a report last year which said there was a shortage of GPs and nurses.
Last year, Paul Beales was sentenced to four years for possession of drugs and Rachel Dougall was jailed for one year for failing to report a crime.
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Only 56% of students who enroll in a four-year college earn a bachelor's degree within six years, according to a report last year by the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
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The College Board, a not-for-profit association, calculated in a 2010 report (based on 2008 data) that a typical student who enters a four-year college at age 18 and borrows his way through earns enough by age 33 to make up for his costs, including foregone wages and loan interest.
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