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He said he expected new rules to be formulated during the first quarter.

Since the firm's handset business also tends to be slow early in the year, Sanjay Jha, its boss, expects a loss in the first quarter.

Prices, which zoomed up in the first quarter of this year, are now steady and should not increase again for several months.

Economic growth in the Philippines slowed down in the first quarter of 2011 due to lower government spending and a slowdown in global trade.

But all in, the actual rate of reserves accumulation in the first quarter might be up to $100bn higher than the published number suggests.

In April, Mr. Otellini said demand for its computer chips appeared to have 'bottomed out' in the first quarter.

But he said it was "unreasonable" to expect investment banking to remain as strong as it was in the first quarter.

and he perceived that she was going through their two families alphabetically, and that they were only in the first quarter of the alphabet.

Profits fell in the first quarter from a year earlier, but by less than those of many rivals.

Ad spending in those markets in the first quarter was down at least 5% from a year earlier -- and much more in some markets.

Indeed, some had been hoping for a modest decline in the first quarter to take some of the heat out of the market.

The timing is unclear, but economists estimate that up to $100bn of that target could have been shifted to CIC in the first quarter.

The first-quarter GDP data show just how much Japan's overall economy depends on exporters and the businesses that cater to them.

Analysts predict it will be negative this quarter before beginning to pick up in the first quarter of next year.

Analysts also noted there was an improved quality of the earnings in the first quarter, which had fewer one-offs than in previous quarters.

The U. S. recovery braked sharply at the start of the year, with the economy growing at just a 1. 9 percent pace in the first quarter.

For months China's policymakers have been trying to slow the country's economy, which grew venomously in the year to the first quarter.

But even this flicker of life may prove to have been snuffed out in the first quarter of this year.

Lenovo said the new LeTV will be an Internet-connected product and is expected to launch in the first quarter.

Morgan Stanley is the only one of the five biggest US investment banks to report a rise in fixed-income revenue from the first quarter.

Profits seem to have already turned around, and Mr Gordon predicts employment will follow by the first quarter of 2010.

GM's China auto sales rose 10% from a year earlier in the first quarter, about one-third as fast as they rose in the year-earlier quarter.

Profits seem to have turned around already and Mr Gordon predicts employment will follow by the first quarter of 2010.

China reported that its sizzling economic growth continued to slow modestly in the first quarter of this year.

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

Capital investment by businesses turned up in the first quarter, boosted by outlays for commercial structures and equipment and software.

What I mean is with the profits from the first quarter acre, the farmers could buy a second, and a third, and a fourth.

Their contribution in the first quarter of this year is likely to be just 0. 1 percentage point, the bank adds.

COP is slated to complete its split in the first quarter of next year, giving the company's shares some time to turn to the upside.

The only positive sign was that volumes fell less quickly than in the first quarter, when traffic declined 27 per cent.

Ford yesterday declined to comment, referring to former statements that it expected the deal to be signed by the end of the first quarter.

This, along with the general weakness of the PC market, explains why its earnings dropped almost a third in the first quarter of this year.

This was in sharp contrast with a $961m or 85 cents a share profit for the first quarter a year ago.

Chinese bank lending is usually strongest in the first quarter and moderates as the year goes on.

The company estimated that it remained profitable so far in the first quarter.

The latest purchasing managers readings, he said, were consistent with a 1 per cent fall in GDP in the first quarter.

NOL stayed firmly in the red through the first quarter of the year, despite some of its biggest shipping line rivals returning to the black.

But in the first quarter of this year, growth was already back up to 11. 9 per cent, prompting concerns that it was expanding too fast.

Analysts at Bank of America Corp. , Nomura Holdings Inc. and IHS Global Insight said the first quarter may mark a trough.

ADP says the number of background checks it performed for companies rose 24% in the first quarter from a year earlier.

The privately owned company will release full financial figures with its annual report at the end of the first quarter, Mr. Gan said.

But the worse the inventory draw-down in the first quarter, the better second-quarter GDP will look.

In the first quarter of this year, SJM's share was 28 per cent, a far cry from the pre-2004 era when it had a monopoly.

China's online recruitment market, on the other had, grew by 36 percent in the first quarter over the same period a year earlier.

Ba shusong said, the first quarter startup dense deflation policy may include raised bank reserve ratio, interest rate and exchange rate.

The company warned that results later in the year "may not be as strong as the first quarter" .

Membersip fees should be paid within the first quarter of every year.

Signs of a slowdown in the first quarter are now expected to be followed by a jump in lending in April.

In the first quarter, Jackson let Bryant, a starter, stay on the court when he subbed the rest of the first unit out and brought in O'Neal.

Taking the first quarter as a whole they rose by just $8 billion, compared with $154 billion a year earlier.

The estimates of the private-sector economists polled by the Journal suggest the first-quarter pickup wasn't all due to that base effect.

At dbFX. com, volume rose 37 percent in the first quarter from a year earlier and its customer numbers more than doubled in 2008.

The Sands generated more than twice as much operating profit in the first quarter on less than half the invested capital .

Qu Hongbin, an economist at HSBC, forecasts that exports in the first quarter could be 19% lower than a year ago.

The economy grew at just a 1. 8% annual rate in the first quarter and probably only a little faster in the second.

Speaking on a television talk show, Kiichi Miyazawa confirmed expectations of a 2% growth rate for the first quarter of the year.

Bank of America posted a net profit for the first quarter of $3. 2 billion, a drop of 24% compared with a year earlier.

But since the end of the first quarter there have been growing signs the economy is stabilising.

My parents did not approve of our relationship and when the first quarter of 1991 came, my parents made me quit my job.

Goldman was the busiest firm in the region excluding Japan during the first quarter measured by the value of equity-capital-markets deals.

Most economists in a Reuters poll said they do not expect the Fed to raise interest rates before the end of the first quarter of 2011.

Even with a strong currency, household consumption fell in the first quarter.

Second-quarter net income, to be reported today, is expected to be almost two-thirds better than the first quarter.

In the first quarter, Morgan Stanley's overall compensation and benefits fell about 45% from a year earlier.

This is starting to look eerily like the erosion in estimates that transpired over the course of the first quarter.

Residential investment in the first quarter also tumbled 38%, but home building appears to have stopped declining by the end of the quarter.

Real estate cools down Prices in the first quarter fell 3% from the fourth quarter , though are still up more than 10% from a year ago .

China's gross domestic product expanded 9. 7% in the first quarter compared with a year earlier.

Despite price increases (see table below), customer satisfaction with these high-priced hotels is up for the first quarter, . . .

And this comes at a time of an external shock in the first quarter of 2011 from a stagflationary rise in oil prices.

The IMF has compared house prices in the first quarter of this year with their level a year ago in 52 rich and emerging housing markets.

Many believe the economy will continue to shrink through the rest of this year and into the first quarter of next year.

Three out of four companies that have issued guidance for the first quarter have steered investors lower.

Many analysts expect the bank to raise interest rates during the first quarter of 2011 to bring inflation expectations closer to target.

The company blew away analysts' revenue and profit estimates in the first quarter, boosting its stocks on the equity market.

CICC in 2009 the chemical industry strategy report, the chemical industry's profits will be at the bottom of the first quarter of next year.

"We wound up maintaining this view up to $110 and then got out in the first quarter of 2008. "

As a result, China's energy intensity worsened in the first quarter of this year after years of continuous improvement.

China's growth in the first quarter of this year has led some to conclude that the government is up to the same old tricks.

The quality of China's economic performance continued to improve in the first quarter.

Chinese PC maker Lenovo has reported better-than-expected profits for the first quarter on higher overseas and commercial sales.

Shipment of these orders is expected to be completed before the end of the first quarter of 2010.

But with Ms Lin's help, Mercedes more than doubled car sales in China in the first quarter, compared with a year ago.

At the end of the first quarter, just 7% of ICBC's total loans were to local-government financing vehicles.

In the first quarter, net profit at Chinese listed firms fell 26% from a year before, J. P. Morgan says.

It was $28. 2 billion in the first quarter of this year, and exports continue to be a key driver of China's overall economic growth.

In the first quarter, Google's Android operating system ran on 34% of smartphones in Western Europe, up from only 8% a year ago.

Global sales of the doll have also continued to fall off, dropping 6% in the first quarter following a 5% drop in the one before.

Then, mature markets accounted for about half of combined sales; in the first quarter, that share was just over a third.

In this context the sharp narrowing of the current-account surplus to 1. 4% of GDP in the first quarter is nothing to celebrate.

The largest contributor to the first-quarter dive was the decline in exports which, in turn, drove down private investment.

The airline indicated its fortunes may have improved as it announced a Rmb981m profit for the first quarter of this year.

But the bank also cut its appetite for speculation again, with daily value at risk falling to $136m from $161m in the first quarter.

Sceptics had predicted that after the first-quarter results the unusual conditions that powered FICC revenues would not last.

On Sunday, he entered the game against the New Jersey Nets at the end of the first quarter, and played a grand total of eight seconds.

This Daily Eastern News blog post from November chronicles live the first quarter of a Southern Illinois University football game.

It was the narrowest deficit since the first quarter of 1989, the ABS said.

By the first quarter of this year, it had fallen by more than half to $327bn, or 2. 3% of GDP.

Dell continued to lose ground, with shipments diving 16. 7 percent in the first quarter, hurt by weakness in the enterprise market.

With a leap in profits in the first quarter of 2008 and a war chest from mega-IPOs, the larger banks are flush with funds.

Yahoo said the transfer of ownership occurred in August and the deconsolidation of Alipay was effective in the first quarter of 2011.

Sales of the flagship S-class, more of whose buyers inhabit China than in any other country, rose 25% in the first quarter.

The company expects to complete this trial by the end of the first quarter of 2011.

Bankers said the first quarter seemed relatively quiet after the busy autumn of 2010.

Ad pages are down 15 percent in the first quarter, compared with the period a year earlier.

In the first quarter, they were 29% lower than a year earlier.

Amid the heat, Ms. Jung said Avon is working to fix the problems and craft a new long-term plan by the first quarter.

Official statistics show China's gross domestic product rose 11. 9% from a year earlier in the first quarter.

Total passenger and cargo volumes for all Chinese airlines in the first quarter rose by 1. 2 per cent from a year earlier, Mr Li said.

GM, China's second-biggest carmaker, reported $400m of equity income from its Chinese joint ventures in the first quarter of this year.

Steelmakers were hoping the first quarter would be its worst, in terms of losses, for 2009.

Gross domestic product grew 10. 3% over the same period a year earlier, slowing from the 11. 9% annual growth recorded in the first quarter.

Actual payouts in the first quarter are projected to decline about 16% from a year earlier, according to S& P data.

Analysts think the German economy shrank slightly in the first quarter, though the data could surprise them.

The growing optimism was not dented by news of a sharp contraction in the Japanese economy in the first quarter.

With a dwindling pot of cash, Chrysler is seeking $7 billion in loans to help it pay bills coming due as soon as the first quarter of 2009.

High oil prices in the first quarter were a contributing factor to China's turbocharged increase in consumer prices.

That relief turned to excitement as it became clear the industry was enjoying a substantial profit recovery in the first quarter.

Sales rose almost a third in the first quarter of this year and the company plans to add 200 employees.

The company has said its net exposure, or potential losses if defaults occur, was $4 billion in the first quarter.

In fact, emissions are going in the wrong direction as well, up 1. 2% in the first quarter of this year, a reversal of another trend.

It is now in geosynchronous orbit undergoing rigorous testing and is expected to begin service in the first quarter of 2008.

Import growth has not outpaced exports for three consecutive months since the first quarter of 2004.

PMI10. 2% in the first quarter, is still high, invasion and existence of enterprises ' production and profit were capital goods prices.

The Lakers fell behind in the first quarter Monday night and never got into a rhythm.

ICANN is expecting 300-500 applications when it opens its doors in the first quarter of next year, he said.

Global sales of Smartphones have continued to grow, increasing by 49 percent in the first quarter of 2010.

This was 15 times more than the first-quarter profit but short of the T$28. 8bn recorded a year ago.

US light vehicle sales were 8 per cent lower in the first quarter than a year earlier.

Overall inflation in Australia rose 1. 3% the first quarter this year, and is currently up 3. 3% from a year earlier.

"The DRAM industry is going to bleed until the first quarter of 2009, " said Peter Yu, an analyst at BNP Paribas.

In the first quarter of 2009, retail sales increased by 15% from a year earlier in nominal terms.

The small Cruze sedan, sold globally, overtook the Silverado pick-up truck in the first quarter as the brand's top-selling vehicle.

Stimulus dollars helped push up fixed-asset investment by almost one-third in the first quarter, but consumer spending rose less than 10%.

In the first quarter, sales have increased about 60%, he said.

The slump in manufacturing may be abating after companies reduced inventories in the first quarter at the fastest pace on record.

Trading revenues will fall 28% from the first quarter, to $7 billion, or 29% from a year ago, he projected.

An initial campaign is expected to roll out in the first quarter of next year.

The U. S. and Japan had grown most rapidly in the fourth quarter of 2009 and the first quarter of 2010, but Europe is now catching up.

On Thursday, Google said it hired 786 new employees in the first quarter and was just getting started.

Oh! I don't know. After you hit that long jump-shot in the first quarter, I knew we were going to win.

Retail sales in the city rose 20% in the first quarter of 2011 from a year earlier, based on the city's Census and Statistics Department.

China's economic growth slowed slightly in the first quarter, but inflation accelerated to a nearly three-year high in March.

The authors take this as evidence that the output gap may have been only 2% in the first quarter, implying little or no threat of deflation.

A decline in home buying subtracted a half percentage point off of the GDP figure, compared with about a full point in the first quarter.

During the first quarter of the century, among society's upper classes, wine was central to the male dinner party.

Caterpillar's results from the first quarter -- when the dollar was still falling -- illustrate how the offsets work.

Time Warner posted better-than-expected results for the first quarter.

Bank lending typically spikes in the first quarter of each year, although analysts say the size of 2010's increase is unusually large.

Growth in the first quarter of 2008 was a sprightly 6. 1% on a year earlier.

"In the first quarter there was a clear, unique opportunity to hire a lot of available talent, " Tarrant said.

"What we believe is happening is that we're seeing customers getting rid of inventory at a slower rate than in the first quarter, " he said.

Channel inventory had been too high in the first quarter of 2011, while demand declined in the emerging markets during the second quarter.

With net income still outpacing revenue, companies also are likely to enjoy further fattening of profit margins in the first quarter.

Last week, Caterpillar reported sharply lower earnings and sales for the first quarter and lowered its outlook for the year.

Activity has also waned from the first quarter this year, when companies rushed to issue bonds to take advantage of low interest rates.

Unit shipments of microprocessors increased from the first quarter, though the average selling price declined sequentially, Intel said.

About 7% of China's foreign trade in the first quarter was done in transactions denominated in yuan, up from 0. 5% a year earlier.

China managed to stave off a sharp downturn in the first quarter of 2009 through a stunning increase in lending.

What's more, Goldman's profits were down in the first quarter of 2011.

Presentations start with the first quarter results. All businesses, with the exception of those related to housing, are getting better.

Of the trade settled in yuan in the first quarter of this year, 94% was foreign goods sold to China, not Chinese goods sold abroad.

The revision means the Renren. com user base rose 19% in the first quarter, compared with a previously reported rate of 32%.

ICBC supplied two-thirds of that in the first quarter alone.

Taking fewer chances with trading also might have cost Morgan Stanley business in the first quarter, according to some analysts.

China's international reserves rose nearly 26 per cent in the first quarter, to $2, 500bn, versus the same period a year ago.

Some analysts forecast the semiconductor division will slip into the red during the first quarter of next year.

That's an improvement on the record 9. 4% drop in the first quarter from a year earlier.

In 2007, Toyota outsold GM in the first quarter, but at the end of the year, GM held the lead by a tiny margin.

Not long ago, Guangzhou Guotufangguan Board announced in the first quarter of this year, the secondary property market transactions data.

"I'm worried, " admits the boss of another large retail chain, privately. "Things seem a little rougher now than in the first quarter. "

The home team fell behind by 14 in the first quarter, fought back to make it close, but could never quite overtake the Lakers.

The evidence suggests that GDP has experienced another sharp contraction in the first quarter of this year.

The Swiss bank said that, based on its latest estimates, it was "unlikely to be profitable in the first quarter. "

Dawn Bridges, a spokeswoman for TimeInc, the archives in their entirety would be available in the first quarter of next year.

The subsequent bounce-back in activity has distorted data for the first quarter of 2011.

Their steel output in the first quarter of the year was higher than their previous record for the period.

Expectations for second-quarter growth are not much better than the measly 1. 8 per cent annualised rate of the first quarter.

But remember that China, in the first quarter of this year alone, acquired an additional $138 billion in new foreign exchange reserves.

Citi plans to use the gains to repair its battered balance sheet and boost results in the first quarter of this year.

In the seasonal report of the first quarter from listed companies, the acceleration of wage cost almost becomes the routine.

Many analysts expect UBS to post more writedowns in the first quarter on securities linked to US residential mortgages.

Analysts expect the earnings to grow 35% this year, though their estimates for the first quarter were well short of the actual results.

Economists said tepid demand in the first quarter had left businesses with less of a need to rebuild inventories.

For now, the first-quarter data don't show a rush to diversify out of the euro.

Toyota took the worldwide lead in the first quarter as it stepped up sales in every major market.

This is the first in the first quarter is one of the main reasons for the trade deficit.

Many have aggressively bid for land to develop through the first quarter of this year.

The Aussie brushed off weak GDP data for the first quarter since growth is likely to bounce back later this year.

The stock market's 8% decline in the first quarter appears to have more closely aligned stock prices with company earnings.

A massive shelf-clearing helped sink gross domestic product by an annualized 6. 1% in the first quarter.

The likes of Deutsche and Credit Suisse have not needed to do huge deals to produce bumper earnings in the first quarter.

By the first quarter of this year, people had pushed aside quality in favor of saving money.

The company's trading pattern show high export sale in the first quarter ang high home sale in the third quarter.

While reporting its results on February 4th, Toyota put the cost of the recalls at $2 billion in the first quarter alone.

Headcount rose 200, 000 in the U. S. alone during the first quarter, thanks to the biggest recruiting drive in Avon's history.

The deflator for "core" personal consumption expenditures (PCE), which excludes fuel and food, rose more modestly in the first quarter.

It hopes to have operations in a total of 65 countries by the first quarter of next year.

Slightly more than half of the nation's insured institutions reported profit declines in the first quarter.

In the first quarter of this year, it had 42 offerings valued at $8. 6 billion.

U. S. economic growth slowed sharply in the first quarter and was expected to remain below 2 percent in the May-June period.

After successive years of improvement, the first quarter of this year saw a big reversal, with energy intensity increasing by 3. 2%.

First, the group will devise an economic stimulus plan by the end of the first quarter.

The outlook for results in the first quarter of 2011, due to be reported next week, is similarly solid.

This year the "two sessions" Shi, Minister of Commerce Chen Deming had predicted that China's trade deficit may occur in the first quarter.

The Federal Reserve will offer a fresh peek at that mountain on Thursday, when it releases its 'flow of funds' data for the first quarter.

GM and Volkswagen, SAIC's other foreign joint- venture partner, both reported unexpectedly strong vehicle sales in the first quarter.

The surge in commodity prices, which contributed to the first-quarter trade deficit, is adding to inflationary pressure.

The production of energy-intensive industries in the first quarter expanded rapidly.

One notable exception was Microsoft, which had $23 billion in net cash in the first quarter of 2009, down from $39 billion in 2002.

said volatile currency swings prevented it from giving a "meaningful outlook" beyond the first quarter.

Seasonal increases in demand also tend to support prices at the end of the calendar year and in the first quarter.

JUST when many were predicting a gentle easing of China's economic growth this year, figures for the first quarter suggest the opposite.

On May 26th the government said GDP grew by an annualised 1. 8% in the first quarter, identical to its preliminary estimate.

The first-quarter results are in, and the management is performing pretty well.

expects its technology to be approved in time for Air France to launch in-air calling on an Airbus A318 in the first quarter of 2007.

India's economy registered a slight slowdown in its growth in the first quarter (April to June) this fiscal year.

These two funds in the implementation of the first quarter dividends for investors to share proceeds timely.

Goldman's outsize trading gains in the first quarter, coming alongside weakness in other businesses, offer limited comfort.

Current production rates are two helicopters per month and is scheduled to increase to three Lakota's monthly in the first quarter of 2008.

In the first quarter, China's economy grew 11. 9% from a year earlier.

Nevertheless, most observers agree that rising FAI successfully propped up economic activity in the first quarter.

In the first quarter of this year, energy consumption rose at the annualised rate of 15 per cent.

Unit sales are over the mean for the first quarter or above the first quarter mean .

All of the major eurozone economies suffered employment declines in the first quarter, particularly Spain.

The South Korean economy grew 5. 8 per cent in the first quarter from a year ago.

Greif increased prices in the first quarter to offset rising raw material costs, particularly for steel and plastic products.

plans to open source Mojito through the Yahoo Developer Network in the first quarter of 2012.

The winter Olympics, held last month in Salt Lake City, has also distorted the spending on broadcast advertising in the first quarter.

Overall, commercial-real-estate write-downs in the first quarter are expected to rival those for CDOs and leveraged loans.

Fifth Third reported its first profit since the fourth quarter of 2007 as nonperforming loans fell by 8% from the first quarter.

After a brief respite in the first quarter of this year, asset prices plunged in the spring, sending shockwaves through global markets.

Unemployment among non-Spanish workers surged 24 per cent, between the end of December 2007 and the end of the first quarter this year.

Much of the investment in 2009 was concentrated in gold, with big inflows into exchange-traded products in the first quarter.

Footwear sales rose by about 10 percent in the first quarter of this year, with exports to several markets, including China, up.

A report from website Zillow, which lets you look up what your house is worth, says that home prices in the US fell 3% in the first quarter.

Against emerging-market and commodity-producing countries, the dollar also struggled in the first quarter.

GDP shrank by 7% in the year to the first quarter. Industrial production has fallen by over a fifth.

Investment banking results were weak in the first quarter as initial public offering and merger markets remained soft.

Russia has suffered as much as any major economy by the global crisis; its economy shrank by about 9. 5% in the first quarter of this year.

Goal: Design and implement a monthly sales report before the end of the first quarter of the current fiscal year.

The first quarter results reflect continued improvements in productivity.

The vehicle market was boosted strongly in the first quarter by government tax cuts for small cars and subsidies for rural buyers.

The actual reference implementation should follow shortly, with all loose ends tied up by the first quarter of 2001.

The net inflows in the second quarter were the strongest the industry has seen since the first quarter of 2006.

In the United States, in the first quarter of 2004, economic growth became more balanced and remained solid.

MWV has realised over $14m in cost savings in the first quarter through reduced overheads and manufacturing optimisation initiatives.

The suppliers will receive a questionnaire in the first quarter, which will help them calculate their emissions.

Papaconstantiou says those measures? shaved 40 percent off Greece's budget deficit during the first quarter of this year.

We think the very fast loan growth in [the first quarter] will turn into rapid fixed asset investment in the coming months.