It has just turned up from its rising WMA, which is a positive sign.

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Mauritius imports most of its food and energy, so rising world prices are pushing up inflation.

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Within months, another upscale down-home establishment sprang up in its place, helmed by the rising star Shea Gallante, and it may well be serving the finest, if hardly the cheapest, Italian food in New York.

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In the lethal U.S. market, where makers scrap to gain a tenth of a point in market share, Nissan and its Infiniti luxury brand have picked up nearly two and a half points, rising to 6.3% since Ghosn took over.

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They included that construction spending was up again in November, its third monthly increase in four months, rising 1.2% versus the consensus forecast of only a 0.5% gain.

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But it is clear that the carrier needs to catch up with the current LTE leader, Verizon, before LTE adoption starts rising and its network deficiencies become more apparent.

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Public spending has been rising there as the government tries to prop up the economy with fiscal stimulus packages like its car-scrapping scheme, but the state has also started reining in its spending to repair its poor public finances.

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Now the ADB is arguing that, with demand from the advanced economies for its manufactures unlikely to pick up strongly soon, Asia needs to shift to a model based more on rising domestic demand and relying more on its service industries.

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