Its last reading was a significant negative surprise, showing a decline from 68.0 in February to 59.7 in March.
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Given that the last reading of GDP for the third quarter was 2.7%, it could push the U.S. into a recession.
The last reading of consumer spending, in November, was surprisingly strong.
Although the last reading of Case-Shiller's gauge of prices for 20 cities was flat against a month earlier and down 2.6% year over year, it may be missing a robust turn in housing.
And the reason I ask this question is, I was reading earlier today that the consumer confidence index is down almost to the lowest point this year in the last September reading.
For example, last week Reading clinched the second division championship, and will be playing in the Premier league next year.
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An initial reading last week stunned investors with a 0.1% contraction in the economy.
"Maybe when I went down to Reading last year, that was my aim, " he told BBC Radio Suffolk.
The last official PMI reading, the government's gauge, came in at 50.6 for December, a third month of expansion.
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He was refused permission to speak to Reading last month, and most recently has been linked with the managerial vacancy at West Brom.
This was the legislation that upset Mr Hojdar, a left-winger from a poor region of the north, when it survived a first reading last week.
The government opposed Ms Harris's bill when it had its second reading last December on the grounds that it made no provision for consultation with Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Until last year, reading it was delightful but heartbreaking.
But in keeping with other recent signs that activity might be fraying at the edges, a Sentix investor confidence report for April slipped to 14.2 coming off its highest reading last month at 17.1 since September 2007.
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Last night I was reading the cover article of the latest Harvard Business Review.
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The seasonally-adjusted increase of 0.4 percent in the CPI is the highest monthly inflation reading since last April.
Only about 45% of elementary students passed state reading exams last year, and 33% passed the math test.
In another report, the Labor Department said the number of new applications filed for unemployment benefits was unchanged from last week's reading of 384, 000.
New orders were strong, the first positive reading since last May.
Evan Browning, a 26-year-old freelance photographer based in New York City, e-mailed me after reading my last post about La Salada in Buenos Aires for the Megacities Blog.
Annual rates furthered their decline in April, with the 20-city composite accelerating its fall to -4% over April 2010, compared with a decline of 3.8% last month over its reading a year ago.
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The idea that we should be reading the last rites for the City and the UK's financial services industry, because of new constraints on how and what top bankers are paid, doesn't seem quite right in the context of the announcement today by JP Morgan of substantial new investments in London.
Everton will play Reading in the last 16 at Goodison Park on Tuesday, 1 March.
Its services PMI reading for Germany last month was 52.1, down from 52.8 in February.
But last week's unemployment reading sparked a sell-off that extended into the early part of this week.
The country revised up its gross domestic product figures for the October to December period to show a 0.2% increase in the quarter on annualized terms, compared to last month's initial reading of a 0.4% contraction.
One of my amusements over the last few days has been reading the testimony of David L. McClure of the Government Accounting Office before the House Subcommittee on Government Management Information and Technology regarding this proposed new position.
Speaking to a standing-room-only lecture hall lined with dozens of students and faculty members, he spent the last minutes of his presentation reading off the names of students, post-doctoral fellows, collaborating groups and funding sources from a projected slide that listed even more of them.
But Cardiff - after a home derby loss to Swansea and a draw at Reading in their last two games - can look proudly down on the rest of the Championship thanks to Nottingham Forest holding previous leaders Queens Park Rangers to a draw on Saturday.
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