Word: quarters
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...economists ranging from Morgan Stanley's Stephen Roach to White House economic czar Larry Summers had been proclaiming for several years that the percentage had to come down. It has thus far stubbornly refused, with consumer spending hitting 70.7% of GDP - close to a record - in the first quarter of this year. American households have lost too much wealth and the job market is too miserable for that to keep up much longer...
...dynamic and fast growing smaller firms, has been hammered over the past year. The main index of its shares has slumped by 50% since the same time last year, far more than the losses on the FTSE 100, an index of Britain's leading shares. In the opening quarter of 2009, AIM listed just five new firms, raising a meager $4.5 million in the process. In the same period last year, 32 new companies pocketed 100 times that amount. "To all intents and purposes," Richard Thornhill, capital markets director at Deloitte, said in the firm's quarterly analysis...
...many very important indicators until July. The rate at which unemployment is rising is supposed to slow. If so, May should be the last month that the figure can rise by more than 500,000. If June is much worse, then the recovery is hardly taking hold. Second quarter earnings for banks will have to be relatively strong or the hope of a rebound in the sector, which the "stress tests" indicated is possible, will dwindle. Investors may begin to think that the test criteria were too liberal. If that happens, the public's faith in the capacity...
...received $15.4 billion from the Troubled Asset Relief Program and its total loan request could top $27 billion before the company completes its restructuring, a GM spokesman says. Even that figure assumes that GM's cash burn, which was running more than $3 billion per month in the first quarter, begins to slow later in the year. If the recession deepens, GM could be back at the bar for more. (Read about the success of GM's Chinese division...
...that weren't enough, GM predicted in February that bankruptcy, which now looks inevitable after the company's disastrous first quarter, could cost as much as $100 billion...