Business inventory and industrial production figures also suggested that the economy was still growing.
If China's electricity production figures have a story to tell, it is of structural reform.
The slump began when OGX reported weak production figures for its first oil wells in June 2012.
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In the near term, production figures will continue to rise, even as rig counts start to fall.
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But if population figures are uncertain, Professor Murphy says, this is even more true of food production figures.
's output will soar to 20 million tons -- an eightfold rise over the production figures of last year.
Industrial-production figures are likely to be the more reliable of the two, because they come directly from industry reports.
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For the first nine months of the fiscal year, the company reported lower production figures for both gold and copper.
Although more than 80% of cars manufactured in the UK are exported, production figures were boosted by strong domestic demand.
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Factory production figures out today suggest America's manufacturing industry is recovering, as does some data from the New York Fed.
But, as I demonstrated in the preceding paragraph, JODI, the EIA, and the IEA produced extremely different production figures for 2011.
Jeannes elaborated on those production figures in an interview with Kitco News.
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With the production figures expected to be low for some time, Newmont is looking to cut costs across the board in all ways possible.
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How is that sort of decision, which has an enormous impact on data quality and headline production figures, left up to the countries themselves?
Germany's four big power producers have undertaken to post weekly production figures on the website of a second carbon-trading exchange, the European Energy Exchange in Leipzig.
In its Q2 2012 earnings results, the company had projected lower production figures for this year, which led to a steep fall in its share price.
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When reviewing automotive sales and production figures in China, it is often unclear whether the numbers represent passenger car sales only, or whether they also include commercial vehicles.
As the Asian markets get started again later today, traders of this pair will want to pay particular attention to the Household Spending and Preliminary Industrial Production figures being released early in the session.
While a PepsiCo India spokesman says that production figures relating to individual bottlers are not in the public domain, he confirms that half its beverage volume is from seven franchise bottlers of which Varun Beverages is the biggest.
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Airbus, with over 300 aircraft ordered for delivery in 2003, is likely to produce more than Boeing, which expects to make 275-300 (in aircraft manufacturing, production and delivery figures are usually identical).
It looks at what happens to the figures from production (not tax) when you strip the sector out of the UK statistics.
Later Friday morning, the Street will get new figures on industrial production and consumer sentiment.
The latest figures on industrial production appear to confirm Mr Greenspan's confidence about the recovery.
Disappointing figures on industrial production and construction in November have added to fears that the UK economy contracted in the last quarter of 2012.
But now we are seeing stabilization in some key figures like industrial production and inventory levels, as well as signs of improvement in the housing sector.
He explained that they like to maintain a level of mystery around the facts and figures of the production so as not to undermine the suspension of reality that the production encourages.
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Earlier this month, government figures showed farmed salmon production hit a seven year high last year.
Meanwhile, figures showed that industrial production in France bounced back in February, gaining 0.7% on the previous month.
But the latest moves come as new figures show Spanish industrial production fell for the second consecutive month in October.
And official figures from Eurostat showed eurozone industrial production for September down 2% from August.
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