pre-recession

By the end of the current quarter the American economy may have returned to its pre-recession peak in real GDP.

The U. S. economy grew less than 1 percent in the first half of the year and has yet to return to its pre-recession size.

A pre-recession argument for corporate responsibility was that it gave companies a moral "licence to operate" .

That's certainly better than nothing, but it's still a step down from the nearly 4% median increase seen in the pre-recession days of 2007.

Rough diamonds continued to rise in value in the first quarter of this year, and broke their pre-recession levels.

It is the only one of the four main groups where output has recovered to above the pre-recession peak.

Tax revenues remain far below their pre-recession levels though October was a strong month.

Although gross domestic product has recovered to its pre-recession peak, employment has not.

Ballmer reiterated he saw the technology sector returning to growth only slowly, and said it would take time to reach pre-recession levels.

That equates to a breathtaking annual savings rate of 6%, compared with the pre-recession norm of less than 2%.

One is that tech employment is still below the pre-recession level, so some of this hiring is simply a return to earlier staffing levels.

In fact, they've been better; real output has yet to return to its pre-recession peak, even after five quarters of recovery.

Active spending by the wealthiest shoppers has returned sales of luxury goods to pre-recession levels after several difficult years.

It was not the most severe, measured from the pre-recession peak to the trough.

Online work will continue to double year-over-year, while local employment will not rebound to pre-recession levels.

However, the jobs market has yet to return to its pre-recession state.

The economy is bouncing back and unemployment has fallen to nearly pre-recession levels.

Some companies are now worth ten times as much as in the spring of 2009, although they remain far from pre-recession heights.

As a result manufacturing production is closer to its pre-recession peak in Britain than in Germany or the euro area (see chart).

Output remains below pre-recession levels and unemployment is frustratingly high.

So far an anaemic recovery has left UK output 4 per cent below its pre-recession peak.

While more companies came to recruit this year, their numbers were still fewer than pre-recession.

The sector is still some 2. 2m jobs below its pre-recession peak, and new hiring there would help a dismal labour market.

The idea that economic recovery can't happen unless our housing prices return to pre-recession levels makes no sense.

Both of these countries are projected to take 8 or 9 years to reach their pre-recession levels of output.

Its house prices are closing in on pre-recession levels. Its smart hotels are booked up months in advance.

Businesses will start hiring soon, he believes, but most people won't return to their pre-recession spending habits.

Fact 1: Pre-recession housing prices were a historic anomaly based on easy credit caused in part by misguided government policy.

"Global oil demand has recovered its pre-recession peak, " Mr Osborne says.

In France, the outbursts of urban violence occurred pre-recession.

It will be quite some time until employment and growth return to pre-recession levels.

Real median household income in 2009 was 4 per cent lower than its pre-recession high and about the same as it was in 1997.

On the whole, average weekly hours are far below their pre-recession level.

It is unlikely that fees will return to pre-recession levels once the economy recovers.

The economy at this stage in the previous four US recoveries from recession was 10 per cent above its pre-recession peak.

With more money, consumers' spending appetites would return, and our pre-recession economy would come back, if slowly.

Next, past recessions have often served to accelerate the development of practices and processes that had limited popularity pre-recession.

Output has not yet regained its pre-recession peak. And the feeble recovery is petering out.

It will be 2014 before Florida's payrolls recover to pre-recession levels, he predicts.

But they're still about 25% below pre-recession levels.

Government payrolls, the orange line above, are up 0. 44 percent relative to their pre-recession levels.

That overshadowed a solid 4. 6 per cent rise in exports, which finally recovered to their pre-recession level.

And while unemployment remains high in America, it has come back down to (or below) pre-recession levels in countries like China and Brazil.

Even without that likely revision, at 2010's sluggish pace payrolls wouldn't hit their pre-recession peak until March 2020.

Supply is not growing substantially, and global demand, which regained its pre-recession peak last year, is expanding briskly again.

On the other hand, employment on the tech side is much closer to pre-recession levels than employment on the manufacturing side.

But McEwen adds that a return to the pre-recession 1. 45 against the euro and 2. 0 against the dollar is doubtful.

In the background of the EU's wrangling were some goals laid out last year in pre-recession times.

Shares in both companies have more than tripled from last year's lows, although they are still well below pre-recession peaks.