"We know decisions will be made in the third week of the month, so we try to move faster and pull things ahead if we can, " says Nissan's chief operating officer, Toshiyuki Shiga.
For nearly 30 years, the third month of the year has been the best month for crude oil.
For the month, the trade fell into deficit of JPY 559 billion (USD 7 billion), the third consecutive month of deficit and the largest amount ever for the month.
At the start of the new year, The Wall Street Journal reported that 70 Chinese cities saw property prices head lower in December from the previous month, marking the third consecutive month of declines.
Kubica's season will get underway at the Rally Islas Canarias -- the third round of the FIA European Rally Championship later this month -- before he opens his campaign in the WRC 2 at April's Rally de Portugal.
The figure produced in the third month after the end of a quarter - in the Quarterly National Accounts - uses more of the available data.
But on the same day, HSBC released its own set of PMI data, showing the third straight month of declines.
In fact, the average revision since the start of 2006 between the first figure and the third month has been minus 0.01%.
China's exports contracted by 17.5% year-on-year in January--the steepest fall in 13 years and the third successive month of contraction.
It was the third shutdown of a passenger carrier this month following the motor carrier administration's deployment of more than 50 investigators to look at businesses considered to be high risk, the DOT said.
The estimate for construction output is based on published data for the first two months of the quarter, and an estimation for the third month.
February was the third-straight month of year-on-year increases and the ninth-straight month of month-on-month price growth.
In contrast, private banks for the third month running were largely out of the money creation business, the result being a three-month rate of decline in uncovered money substitutes of 14.6%.
Manufacturing activity in China, the region's biggest economy and one of the key drivers of global growth in recent years, expanded for the third straight month in December.
There was more gloom in the services sector, which represents about 80% of the US economy, which shrank for the third month in a row in December.
Though they tend to be minorities within broader political groupings, together they scooped up about a third of the vote in last month's elections to the European Parliament, with Mr Pasqua's lot unexpectedly winning 13%, a shade more than Mr Chirac's own mainstream Gaullists.
The Conference Board's index of consumer confidence also fell, for the third month running, reaching a two-year low.
Figures released on Tuesday showed that consumer prices in the US were 0.3% higher in March than in February, making it the third straight month of rising prices.
It says this is the third case of employees jumping to their deaths at the plant in just half a month.
In that month, Bergkamp became the first player in 25 years to score the first, second and third goals in BBC's Match of the Day Goal of the Month competition.
It was the third straight month with a return of more than 1%, the longest such streak in three years.
Also, the average price of housing in 100 major Chinese cities rose in August for the third straight month, indicating that the decline in property prices appears to have bottomed out.
The Ifo barometer, a measure of business confidence in Germany, rose in July for the third month running.
As for his current company, McEwen Mining commissioned the El Gallo 1 mine in Mexico last month and hopes to begin construction in the third quarter of this year on El Gallo 2.
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These days Ghosn typically spends the first week of every month in Paris, focusing solely on Renault, and the third week in Japan, preoccupied with Nissan.
It was the third straight month of lower private home approvals.
China reduced its investments in U.S. Treasury bonds in December, marking the third straight month of declines, according to Treasury International Capital data, released on Wednesday.
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