Revolving credit decreased at an annual rate of 12% in March and non-revolving credit decreased at an annual rate of 7%.
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Covered money substitutes grew at an annualized rate of near 360% in March taking the three-month rate of growth to an annualized 214% and the twelve-month growth rate to 21.1%.
March's rate of home building was 46% higher than in March 2012.
In the real world what should be most important right now is that wage and salary growth has slumped to a 2.3 percent year-over-year rate of growth from Friday March 26 through Thursday, April 11.
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The region saw unemployment fall to 6.1% in March from 7.6% a year earlier, below the seasonally adjusted national rate of 7.6% in March, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The overall pace of homes started rose 7 percent from February to March to a seasonally adjusted rate of 1.04 million, the Commerce Department said Tuesday.
But the three-month interbank rate soared, reaching 6% by the end of March, and credit conditions have accordingly tightened despite the lower base rate.
The Federal Reserve will hold its next meeting to discuss the interest rate and the future of QE2 on March 15.
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Levels of new business increased at just a moderate pace in March, and slower than the rate of expansion recorded across the UK as a whole.
The unemployment rate in the Sacramento MSA as of March 2011 is 12.7%, which is nearly 4 percentage points higher than the national unemployment rate.
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This is obscuring steadily rising inflation in the service sector, where prices rose at an annual rate of 3.3% in March, up from 2.0% in April 1996.
The ISM said the index was consistent with an annual rate of economic growth 3.3 percent from January through March, up from a tepid 0.4 percent growth rate the last three months of 2012.
Office for National Statistics data showed that manufacturing output fell by 0.5% in March, the sharpest rate of decline in six months.
The Reserve Bank of India's campaign of 13 interest-rate increases since March 2010 has choked off borrowing and slowed growth, but done little to subdue its target, inflation.
The Department of Labor announced that the unemployment rate sank to just under 9 percent for the first time since March of 2009.
India's economy grew at an annual rate of 5.3% between January and March, its slowest pace in nine years.
The economy grew at an annual rate of 2.5 percent from January through March, the government said last week.
And growth will likely pick up in the January-March quarter to an annual rate of 1.5 percent, analysts forecast.
And this year, it grew at an annual rate of 5.3% between January and March - its slowest pace in nine years.
Clearly, nobody is going to get jazzed into relinquishing loopholes in exchange for a shaving of the corporate tax rate and a skyward march in income-tax rates.
Last week we learned that National Association of Home Builders Housing Market Index fell two points to 42 in April despite a rise in housing starts in March that exceeded an annual rate of one million units.
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Moreover, better economic tidings are putting upward pressure on rates, with the 10-year Treasury rate rising to 2.25% as of March 22, from 1.97% on Feb. 29 and 1.98% at year-end, according to Bloomberg.com and the Federal Reserve.
And a trend of 5% growth in the December quarter, followed by a 1.3% decline to 3.7% growth in the March quarter, followed by a 2.1% decline to 1.6% growth in the March quarter is a chilling rate of decline.
He has been constrained first to endorse Paul Ryan's budget plan (which he did in December 2011 after months of attempted evasion), to endorse a cut in the top rate of income tax to 28% (March 2012), and now finally to choose Ryan himself as his running mate.
Going poorly, although figures out on April 7th did show that the number of Germans out of work in March was down from 4.8m to 4.6m, a rate of 12.1%.
Completed sales of existing homes, including single-family houses, condos and co-ops, ticked down to a seasonally adjusted rate of 4.92 million sales per year in March.
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The delinquency rate for federal loans was 12.31% as of March 2012 while it was only 5.33% for private loans.
It said that it expects the rate of inflation to dip to 6.8% in March, compared with its earlier projection of 7.5%.
The Commerce Department said U.S. builders began building new homes at the fastest pace since mid-2008 in March, a seasonally-adjusted annual rate of 1.04 million homes.
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