And since the unemployment rate is a lagging indicator, that figure increased even further to 8.2% in December of 1975.
As explained above, because the Kauffman Index is calculated using non-employer businesses as well as employer businesses, a slowing business creation rate is actually an indicator of improving economic health.
And if past experience is any indicator, the rate of decline will be higher in weapons accounts than other types of military outlays.
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Guidant is developing a wireless "advanced patient management" system for defibrillators, and is evaluating whether heart rate variability is a good indicator of attacks.
Our fifth indicator is the real rate of interest, which is negative in over half of the economies.
But according to US government statistics, Afghanistan's dismal rate of infant mortality, a basic indicator of a country's development, has shown no sign of improvement.
The indicator shows the annual average growth rate, based on financial statements filed in the most recent three months.
Fortunately, there is at least one indicator that bodes well: the London interbank offered rate (Libor), which banks charge each other to lend.
Starts, which are a forward indicator as they track construction, rose by an annualized rate of 750, 000 in August from a downwardly revised 733, 000 in June.
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Applications for building permits, which are an indicator of future building activity, jumped 12% to an annual rate of 894, 000 in September.
His model is based on factors such as changes in bank lending, the economic growth rate and the size of the speculative-grade market (a glut of issuance tends to be an indicator of loose lending practices).
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