Already, exporters are feeling the pinch, as inflation drives up their costs (see chart).
Public spending in Italy is higher than in Germany, if lower than in France (see chart).
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Profits last year had not fully recovered from their sharp drop in 1996 (see chart, opposite).
Its bond yields have soared in comparison with (hardly rock-solid) Russian federal Eurobonds (see chart).
Since the mid-1970s the long-term trend in household saving has been downwards (see chart above).
These applications create images by constructing 3-D polygons that describe an entire object (see chart, above).
This week it reached almost 6%, the highest level since November (see chart 1).
In the emerging markets inflation is the big problem, particularly in China (see chart).
Scores get merged out of existence or go bankrupt every year, (see chart, below).
The third company, WS Atkins, has recovered spectacularly (see chart) thanks to better management.
The region is expected to return to respectable economic growth this year and next (see chart).
Toyota's U.S. factories are able to accept nearly 90% of the changes requested (see chart, below).
Indeed Britain chalks up the world's biggest trade surplus in business services (see chart).
Even the Titans will only just keep pace with the demand for places (see chart).
That is now happening, and the liquidity facilities have begun to shrink (see chart).
Cegetel generates a lot of cash and a disproportionate chunk of Vivendi's profits (see chart).
This meant that Brazil overtook Italy to rank as the world's seventh-biggest economy (see chart).
To be sure, there is no iron link between long hours and growing rich (see chart).
They then calculated the correlations between Germany's output gap and the rest (see chart).
Lending on such terms is most popular in Austria, Britain and Italy (see chart).
NHS, partly because the market for health insurance appears to be saturated (see chart 2).
As a result, electronic payments are only a small share of all payments (see chart).
But the differences in current satisfaction are bigger than might have been expected (see chart 5).
Despite the evident dangers, investors' attitudes to Time Warner improved markedly after the merger (see chart).
Only in the past couple of years have productivity numbers improved (see chart).
Despite all Doha's difficulties, world trade has been growing nicely without it (see chart).
Its share price has risen sixfold since the beginning of last year (see chart).
Now individual funds, rather than management firms, are making most of the running (see chart).
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South Korea's Kosdaq has cooled too (see chart), but GEM is on a worse spiral.
Their price has risen by one-quarter since the merger with Dresdner was called off (see chart).
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