Real residential investment was up another 12.6% in the January-March period, after rising 17.6% year-over-year in the October-December quarter.
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The most recent data from Rosstat show that in the January-March period of 2012 things continued to get better.
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Meanwhile, Volkswagen saw profits fall 38% to 1.95bn euros in the January-March period.
Consolidated net profit for the January-March period was 5.05 trillion won.
Alcoa will provide the informal kickoff to first-quarter earnings season Monday afternoon as the first Dow Jones industrial average component to report figures for the January-March period.
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Last month, the firm reported that clothing sales fell 2.5% in the January-to-March period against the same time last year, and were 0.5% lower over the year.
According to Ms. Sahay, the current account gap was likely more than 6% in the October-December quarter, but it would narrow to below 5.5% during the January-March period.
As a result, the wedding industry refers to the January-to-March period as "Bridal Christmas, " the busy season when brides kick off their wedding plans by going dress shopping.
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Home prices haven't increased during the first quarter of the year since 2006, and the quarterly gain of 1.8% this year was the largest for the January-to-March period since 2005.
The economics minister, Hiroko Ota, said the government was keeping a keen eye on economic developments, but that orders were expected to pick up over the January to March period.
Sony had sunk to a 255.2 billion yen loss for the January-March period in 2012, slammed by its money-losing TV business and competition from rivals Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co.
Fiat is due to release its financial results for the January to March period on14 May, and to host a visit from Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi in the same week.
Toyota Motor Corp. reported Wednesday it sold 2.43 million vehicles during the January-March period, outpacing U.S. automaker General Motors Co. at 2.36 million vehicles and Volkswagen AG of Germany at 2.27 million vehicles.
Infosys had warned in January that challenges in terms of the time taken for contracts to close, and the reluctance of clients to expand projects could hurt its results in the January-March period, its fourth fiscal quarter.
In an interview with Forbes this morning, Seagate CEO Steve Luczo said the company is expecting the total addressable market for the disk-drive sector in the June quarter to be flat to down slightly from the March period, which he says is typical for the period.
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The diagram below, for the period March 9 through March 13, starts to illustrate how the flow unfolds.
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Given that Tilton still has her 2007 Zohar III funds available to her through its March 2012 reinvestment period, is she lending money to her troubled Zohar I, II and III portfolio companies to help keep them current on interest payments?
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Rough diamond output, for the period ended March 31, dropped to 500, 000 carats compared to 600, 000 carats for the same period last year.
Frank said lawyers involved in the case will seek an extension of the objection period until March 8.
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This chart of the Spyder Trust ( SPY) covers the period from March 2003 through early August of 2003.
The footage was recorded over a two week period in March, he said.
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It said the city centre as a whole had an increase in footfall over the March and early April period.
That fine covers the period from March 28 to Nov. 10 in which Apple was not in compliance with local laws.
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Because spring break tends to spread out over a four- to six-week period in March and April, Ms. Banas says there are still deals to be found.
Also , in an attempt to encourage easy access to cash machines, a rates exemption for stand-alone ATMs has also been extended to the end of the budget period in March 2015.
Meiji, which holds a 40% share in the baby-formula market, said the affected products were manufactured between March 14 and March 20, the period when the highest concentration of radiation was released in the air.
As an example, sales of the midsize Chrysler 200, which was regarded as one of the most forgettable cars on the road when it was named the Sebring, were up by a whopping 220 percent this March over the same period in 2011, and increased by 121 percent year-to-date.
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