Later this month, the Department of Enterprise will begin publishing a composite economic index which will effectively produce a separate gross domestic product (GDP) figure for Northern Ireland.

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This year, Chinese officials hope to cut by 7% the amount of water used to produce each yuan of gross domestic product.

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Management did a decent job of keeping costs low even as they were able to produce better sales and gross margin expanded to 50.9% versus 47.5% in the year ago quarter.

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