Growth in gross domestic product (GDP) across the 12-member eurozone over the October to December period is likely to have fallen within the range of minus 0.3% to plus 0.1%, the commission's new economic forecasting model has estimated.
What's clear from that table is that you see in 2009 there is a bump up in spending in that category because of the Recovery Act, which again was necessary to -- a key part of moving from minus 5 percent to more than plus 5 percent on economic activity.
But that is where people start, and as it turns out that seems to work pretty well up to a certain point, from little changes up to kind of small-plus to medium-minus, if you will.
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In an inflationary age it no longer means anything to look at a quarterly statement to see if there is a plus sign or a minus sign next to the return box.
The survey's questions have error margins of plus or minus 3 to 5 percentage points.
This showed that the main source of these figures was only accurate to within plus or minus 35, 000 people.
Another poll, conducted by ICM for the Guardian, found that Mr Blair's approval rating has fallen to minus 17, down from plus seven just after the war ended.
The fact that West German and other allied manufacturers are now able to produce machines tools with accuracies better than plus-or-minus 3 microns has prompted some to argue that the present export control standard is too stringent.
To help colorblind users in the trading world, Bloomberg financial-data terminals include plus and minus symbols or up and down arrows to indicate the direction of the market or stock price, says a spokeswoman for Bloomberg LP.
The sampling error for questions posed to Catholics was plus or minus 6 percentage points.
The recession ate into the surpluses until the plus signs turned to minus.
The Empire State survey of manufacturing conditions on June 15 reported a big drop to minus 7.8 from a plus 11.9 the prior month.
With a trailing multiple of enterprise value (market cap plus debt minus cash) to operating income of 14, giant Comcast is cheaper than its smaller, slower-growing peers.
Whether this is a plus or a minus is up to the individual player.
This is the ratio of enterprise value (market value of common stock, plus debt, minus cash) to operating income (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization).
Crew is a Wall Street darling, as you can see in its high enterprise multiple, defined as the ratio of enterprise value (market value of common, plus debt, minus cash) to Ebitda (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization).
The sampling error for questions posed to non-Catholics was plus or minus 4 percentage points.
For the current quarter, AMD predicted revenues would fall 8%, plus or minus 3%, compared to the prior quarter.
For the fourth quarter of 2012, AMD expects revenue to decrease 9 percent, plus or minus 4 percent, sequentially.
Operating margins are estimated to be 22.5% plus or minus 0.5%.
The closely watched Philadelphia Fed Business Index surged up from minus 10.7 in November all the way up to plus 8.1 in December, with big increases in both new orders and shipments.
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Since 1926, according to our research, the index had returned between minus and plus 1% only three times before, most recently in 1970.
Nokia and Nokia Siemens Networks expect Nokia Siemens Networks non-IFRS operating margin in the first quarter 2013 to be approximately positive 3 percent, plus or minus four percentage points.
That compares to a previous estimate of negative 6 percent, plus or minus four percentage points.
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Bush leads 60 percent to 37 percent, with a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points, the survey found.
Nokia and Nokia Siemens Networks currently estimates that Nokia Siemens Networks net sales in the fourth quarter 2012 were approximately EUR 4.0 billion and the non-IFRS operating margin was between 13 and 15 percent, which compares to the previous outlook of approximately positive 8 percent, plus or minus four percentage points.
There may be times when a long-term bull market periodically consolidates but fails to avoid getting out and staying out of a long-term bull market that periodically consolidates but fails to meet your 10% target to re-enter, consider putting 5% back to work for each quarter where the total return is plus or minus 5%.
There was little difference in how Democrats and Republicans responded to the poll, which had a sampling error of plus-or-minus 3 points.
The Sky Warrior's automatic takeoff and landing system can put a plane on a runway "plus or minus one foot, " says one Department of Defense official who asked not to be named.
Among registered voters, Bush edged Kerry 49 percent to 46 percent, practically even given the poll's margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.
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