But the expansion of the system of suspicious activity reports (SARs) is swamping the National Criminal Intelligence Service, the authority responsible for processing and analysing them and then passing them on to prosecutors and police.
The indicators are designed to provide early signals of turning points between the expansion and slowdown of economic activity, and are based on a wide variety of data series that have a history of signaling changes in economic activity.
This business has less correlation with the PC business and more closely follows the expansion of data center activity.
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Better is to stabilize the level of economic activity and encourage the strong expansion of the economy.
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The PMI is a key indicator of the activity in the sector and a reading above 50 shows expansion.
At risk is the background consensus that supported the expansion of government to the point that public spending now accounts for roughly half of all economic activity among the 17 nations in the eurozone.
Along with the outsourcing of manufacturing, traditionally a fertile ground for union recruitment, the expansion of the part-time workforce has hampered union activity, as this sort of employee is harder to organise.
"I stated in April that the recent expansion activity in the group, the relocation of distribution facilities and the resolution of the stock and property issues in the Blacks business would impact results in the short term, " said JD executive chairman Peter Cowgill.
In remaining above the midpoint of 50 for the fourth consecutive month, the reading still signalled an expansion in activity but at a slightly reduced pace.
The overall level of activity is likely to go down as a result of the exit and expansion, but the biggest firms are likely to get bigger even if the market overall gets smaller.
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We believe in the importance of economic expansion, and also regulation of economic activity.
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Meanwhile, a survey of manufacturing activity in South Korea indicated an expansion in the sector for the first time in seven months in December.
The Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia's March business-activity index showed expansion, while economists had expected contraction.
Giving a big boost to stocks was the release at 10:00 a.m. of the ISM Manufacturing Survey, showing a second straight month of expansion, with index of factory activity rising to 51.7 in October, up from up from 51.5 in September.
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Economic activity among manufacturers in the central-Atlantic region contracted in June after months of slowing expansion, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond's manufacturing general-business index.
The firm expects construction activity to slump 30% in 2009, after a 9% expansion in the first nine months of this year.
The reforms also include measures to stimulate economic activity and improve competitiveness in Spain, such as an expansion of tax cuts for small and medium sized companies, and measures to make it easier to set up new firms.
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