As we predicted, the five-year EVA Momentum rankings have not changed much in the last half year.
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The Web magazine RecessionWire (subtitle: "The Upside of the Downturn"), whose founders were themselves laid off from other companies, has nursed this idea of reinvention over the last half year, with stories on poverty-provoked spiritual awakenings and musings on next steps.
Although the housing market has stabilized over the last half a year, the chorus calling for a double dip in housing is growing louder as data such as this runs counter to a sustainable recovery thesis.
It stuck with that outlook until August, projecting that economic growth would slow for a couple of quarters but not into recession, and then begin to grow again in the last half of the year and through next year.
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While Goldman is the gold standard in the trading business, with its fixed income, currencies and commodities trading division one of the most profitable in the industry, the macro environment has a been difficult one for trading in the last half of the year.
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You can see, however, that Apple has changed the privacy policy on its website four times in the last half a year, and that Facebook has changed its terms of use seven times.
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Counting the pending Los Angeles state court action Koch filed against a California wine collector late last year (see September 2009 report from Wine Spectator), that makes two counterfeit-wine suits Koch has filed in the last half-year.
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In addition, the average 142, 000 monthly jobs growth in the last half of this year was 40% greater that during the last 10 months of 2010, when the economy should have been rebounding strongly and federal stimulus spending was in full swing.
Global loan volume fell 61%, and loan volume in the U.S. fell 53% in the first six months of this year from the first half of last year, according to Dealogic.
"One of our suspicions is that this year unfolds a lot like last year, where we get these prolonged bouts of risk like we did in the back half of last year, " said Mr. Weinberg, who said he was concerned about the impact of a Hollande victory in France's election on markets.
Those who want to present the bullish view will give you sales or price numbers for real estate for the first half or the last year.
In the first half of this year, investment has grown by nearly 24% compared with the same period last year, with half of the money going into high-tech industries.
The sector was first into the downturn in the first half of last year and the first out since March 2012.
For the first three months of the year, 52 institutions opened accounts, about the same number as during the entire second half of last year, the paper said.
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Those pay-per-click ads accounted for 44% of online ad spending in the first half of 2008, up 3% from the first half of last year, while spending on banner ads stayed flat at around 21% of the total.
For example, in its fourth amended registration statement, filed with the SEC in October of 2011, Zynga noted that during the first half of last year it estimated the blended average paying player life for a game as 15 months, down from 19 months a year earlier.
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The Colombians have an acute shortage of helicopters and air power, and it is hoped the new aircraft will help them build on the military successes against the rebels that the army achieved in the second half of last year, partly thanks to the use of air power.
The teams that finished in the lower half of the league last year have been moved into Division Two.
Only eight financial-crisis cases were filed this year, compared with 38 in the first half of last year.
Ronaldinho, fancied to add the European Footballer of the Year to the World Player award he won last year, shone in the second half and capped his display with his superb double strike.
Scotch whisky sales in the second half of last year were "challenging" in South Korea, according to Pernod Ricard's half-year report.
But the number killed in the second half of last year rose, suggesting that Afghanistan is likely to face continued violence as the Taliban and other militants fight for control.
In the second half of last year, after Danish carriers stopped offering subsidies, phone sales declined about 10% from the second half of 2010, according to IDC analyst Francisco Jeronimo.
In comparison with the strong readings in the first half of last year when average job creation was around 170, 000 the data suggest that the labor market might be cooling, but not contracting.
Tombini said that the new regime at the Central Bank has been more closely aligned with other Central Bankers since the crisis of 2008 and saw the economy slowing into the second half of last year, therefore slashing rates even when inflation was still quite high, surprising the markets.
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And what I think all of us here have learned, and certainly those of us in the White House have learned, in the last year and a half is that getting things through this Congress that enjoy broad public support but which are opposed by a particularly powerful wing of the Republican Party, especially in the House, requires taking it to the people.
It has been split up into two divisions with Coventry coming in from the Midlands League to join clubs who finished in the top half of the Northern League last year in Division One.
In the rainy season, which can last for over half the year, getting from one side of town to the other, let alone elsewhere in the state, can become impossible.
Not only has the ratio of female to male founders exploded by 30% over the last year and a half, female entrepreneurs now lead one in five startups across the planet.
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