Michael Niemira, chief economist of the International Council of Shopping Centers, sees a ho-hum spring selling season and expects sales growth in the 2013 spring season to be weaker than in 2012.
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The CBI employers' group predicted a "slow and fragile" return to growth in spring next year.
An increasingly early Arctic spring could increase plant growth by up to 25%.
Heading out to the range or the course each spring is like a living growth chart.
The pace of economic growth slowed this spring, according to new government data, as Americans remained reluctant to consume and imports soared.
The Commission made a number of drastic cuts in its forecasts for growth for 2013, and none more so than Greece, which it now expects to contract by 4.2%, having forecast flat growth in the spring.
Even so, the drooping real-estate market, combined with declining demand for Chinese exports in Europe and elsewhere, pulled back China's economy to an 8.1% pace in the first quarter of 2012, the slowest growth since the spring of 2009, when the world was in recession.
The principal source of the slowdown in economic growth that began last spring has been the substantial correction in the housing market.
Watching the descent of consumer prices this past spring, it looked like CPI growth would approach zero by the end of the summer and then head into negative territory.
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This spring, he told me that economic growth in the United States and Europe was set to slow again.
The report suggests economic growth may hold steady this spring.
For example, the IMF states baldly that the government's tax rises and spending controls since spring 2010 have cut Britain's growth by a cumulative 2.5% of GDP over those two years.
The third quarter recovery in emerging market stocks since the late spring panic has been resilient both to downward growth surprises in the developed world and China.
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June, which was preceded by a 2.6% growth projection for 2012 at this time last year and 7.4% growth forecast for 2012 published in the spring of 2011.
The huge growth in sales of broccoli should put a spring in the step of the nation's cardiologists.
The abrupt reversal of mood recalls both 2010 and 2011, when a promising burst of growth in the early months petered out in spring and summer.
If growth returns and if these "Club Med" economies spring back to life then all will be forgiven.
Moreover, with Grand Theft Auto Vslated for spring 2013, we are poised to generate substantial revenue and earnings growth in fiscal year 2014.
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"Adecco definitely needs a good management team in the U.K., " said Michael Foeth, an analyst with Bank Vontobel, who said Spring Group's focus on professional staffing could also bring in growth and profitability in the future.
While the iPod mini stunted the growth of the flash market in 2004, that market may yet spring back as average flash player capacities increase.
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Hiring can boost consumer spending, which accounts for a large chunk of U.S. economic output, so if private sector employers start to regularly add more than 200, 000 workers each month this spring, as Shepherdson expects, it would bode well for a pickup in growth.
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After peaking in the spring, world stocks market have been sliding lately amid concerns about a slowdown in world growth and a possible double-dip recession.
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In the spring, the Commission forecast that the 27 members of the EU would collectively produce no economic growth in 2012.
Economic growth, which clocked in at a brisk 3.8% pace in the spring, is believed to have slowed to a pace of around 2.4% or less in the just ended July-to-September quarter.
It praised the site for "an abundance of colour and lush growth packed with many varieties of herbaceous perennials and colourful shrubs ... interest from early spring to late autumn, hellebores, roses, asters and many more".
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