They were up a bit, half a percent, the first increase in eight months.
This amount (not adjusted for inflation) is the first increase since fiscal year 2007.
The most recent data, which show a tiny upturn, are the first increase in 10 quarters.
But retail employment was flat and the leisure and hospitality industry gained 7, 000 jobs, the first increase since September.
Sales at established U.S. locations increased by 0.9%, the first increase since 2010.
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That sounds skimpy, but it was still the first increase in 16 years.
It includes the first increase in vehicle fuel economy standards in decades, which Detroit finally succumbed to earlier this month.
Graduate pay will rise by 4% this year - the first increase since 2009, the Association of Graduate Recruiters (AGR) has estimated.
It will be the first increase in three years and reflects rising profitability and cash reserves being achieved through cost cutting and business growth in emerging markets.
Last month Frontier managed to boost revenue per seat by 4% over the same period last year--the first increase in 10 months--versus a 2.8% decline for the industry.
Mr. Gross boosted Treasury holdings to 35% in May from 31% in April, the first increase in four months, according to the latest data from the company's web site.
But he defended the Bank's decision last August to raise interest rates to 0.25%, the first increase in 10 years, a move critics say is implicated in the country's economic slowdown.
In London, the FTSE 100 gave up 0.1% for its fourth straight loss, after the U.K. said the number of unemployed in the three months ended in January rose, the first increase since the three months to January 2012.
After Asian markets closed on Friday, the U.S. reported nonfarm payrolls rose 69, 000 in May, the smallest increase for a year, while unemployment in the world's largest economy edged up to 8.2%, the first increase in just under a year.
Obama announced that the U.S. will begin talks with the European Union on a trans-Atlantic trade agreement, as well as calling for increased spending to fix roads and bridges and the first increase in the minimum wage in six years.
And Alan Greenspan's decision this week to raise interest rates by just a quarter of a point, never mind that it was the first increase for two and a half years, will do little to disturb their equanimity: the change had been widely expected and when it came the markets applauded politely (see article).
The uptick marks the first quarterly increase since the first quarter of 2008, and the most significant gain since the first three months of 2006.
Since the first rate increase in June 2004, the Fed has talked softly and carried a little stick, hiking gingerly on the view that the recovery was fragile and might soon slow.
Moreover, the annual increase in federal income tax revenues from the first four years of the Bush tax cuts (10.5 percent) was greater than the annual increase in tax revenues from the first four years of the Clinton tax increases (9.6 percent).
The first goal: increase the public university's enrollment by 2, 000 over the next two years.
Just last month, the FOMC listed mid-2013 as the possible date for the first rate increase.
UK-wide footfall fell for both out-of-town destinations and shopping centres, but the high street experienced the first annual increase for three months, reaching 2.7%.
Total consumer spending on home filmed entertainment for the second half of the year rose nearly one percent, fueled by a strong third quarter in which spending was up five percent, which marked the first quarterly increase since 2008.
Despite the first monthly increase in home prices in 7 months, as the Case-Shiller indexes showed on Tuesday, there are still more than 10 million properties with underwater mortgages, and a shadow inventory of 1.5 million, or four months supply.
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In his new offer, Mr. Boehner for the first time moved off the no-rate-increase stance and made the first move toward compromise.
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In the first quarter the company finally managed to achieve its first increase in display advertising revenues since the spinoff, a thin 4%.
The SSA had been projecting a 15% increase as the first wave of baby boomers hit 62 and attributes the greater than forecast increase to workers being forced into retirement because of their inability to find new jobs.
The first has been to increase the number of rules and to enforce them more strictly.
But the first priority was to increase the footfall of passengers.
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