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.
Some projects approved by the NDRC, construction of which was scheduled to start in the second half of this year, have been brought forward to the first half of this year, he said.
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Ms. WEBSTER: Well, if you consider during the first half of the year, sales were their lowest level in 15 years. and in the second half of this year we're expecting them to be even lower.
Global loan volume fell 61%, and loan volume in the U.S. fell 53% in the first six months of this year from the first half of last year, according to Dealogic.
Goldman Sachs now thinks the American economy will grow by only 2.75% (on an annual basis) in the second half of this year and the first half of next a forecast it has revised down by three-quarters of a percentage point.
He said worries about non-performing loans are overblown and that loan growth will accelerate in the second half of this year, having plunged 37% year-over-year during the first half of 2010.
In the first half of this year, investment has grown by nearly 24% compared with the same period last year, with half of the money going into high-tech industries.
Yet rumors have been that the company is talking to its advisors since the end of the Chinese New Year on a possible IPO for the second half of this year.
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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.
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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The company also cut operating losses over the course of the year as it scaled back its marketing spending in the second half of the year, the person close to the company said.
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He reckons his harvest this year will at best be half of last year's.
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K. Singh, chairman of the Railway Board, boasts of an even better performance in the first half of this year, with an increase of 18m tonnes.
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We currently forecast Jones to maintain steady margins across its product segments in 2011 as the firm plans to raise prices on clothes and its more expensive shoes in first half of the year, followed with hikes across all of its products in the second half.
The average period chief marketing officers hold a job jumped from 34.7 months to 42 months last year, an increase of more than half a year within the space of a year.
"One of our suspicions is that this year unfolds a lot like last year, where we get these prolonged bouts of risk like we did in the back half of last year, " said Mr. Weinberg, who said he was concerned about the impact of a Hollande victory in France's election on markets.
For the first three months of the year, 52 institutions opened accounts, about the same number as during the entire second half of last year, the paper said.
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Profits in the year to March 31st will probably be half of last year's.
The economy had stumbled badly in the first half of the year, and as the 2nd half began, economic reports coming in for July and August were even worse.
He said more losses are possible into the first-half of 2012, with the second-half of the year a time for these markets to build a base in time for a 2013 rally.
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The strong Lumia performance, together with a sustained high demand for Asha smartphones in the emerging markets, helped the company maintain underlying profitability for the full year despite reporting losses in the first half of the year.
The Colombians have an acute shortage of helicopters and air power, and it is hoped the new aircraft will help them build on the military successes against the rebels that the army achieved in the second half of last year, partly thanks to the use of air power.
He also plans to start raising private money for the second factory in the second half of this year since the loan guarantee, which will translate into a government loan, will cover roughly half of the cost of building and outfitting the factory.
Only eight financial-crisis cases were filed this year, compared with 38 in the first half of last year.
Growth was 140% in the first half of 2007 and 50% in the first half of this year, according to market research firm NPD Group.
Beijing slashed export quotas on rare earths by 72% for the second half of this year after cutting them for the first half as well.
United Airlines said its installation of satellite-based equipment will begin in the second half of this year, with all planes equipped by the end of 2015.
In fact, the authorised use of wiretapping for criminal investigations during the first half of this year decreased by 39% over the corresponding period of last year.
The U.S. dollar fell about 2% in 2010 and it continued to lose ground against global currencies in the first half of 2011, depreciating 3% in the first half of the year.
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Those pay-per-click ads accounted for 44% of online ad spending in the first half of 2008, up 3% from the first half of last year, while spending on banner ads stayed flat at around 21% of the total.
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