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However, they have edged up in recent weeks, helped by an increase in manufacturers' stocks in the US.

However, core inflation had edged up in recent months, and considerable uncertainty surrounded the inflation outlook.

I threw a peanut his way. He edged up, grabbed it nervously, and ran off.

Politically sensitive inflation edged up in September on higher food costs but incomes also rose strongly.

Meanwhile, 'long' positions have edged up, pushing the overall market position into a slightly bullish territory.

Economists estimate the U. S. trade deficit edged up to $27. 5 billion from $27 billion in June, due largely to declining aircraft exports.

The latter edged up in December after falling for four months in a row.

Headline inflation had edged up in recent months. The rise in interest rates had had some dampening effect on the property market .

Longer-term inflation expectations 'appear to have edged up, ' but he suggested that they haven't yet 'become unmoored. '

With incomes up slightly more than spending, the personal savings rate edged up to 5. 8 percent of after-tax incomes in August.

It jumped from less than 5% of the workforce at the end of 2007 to 12% by June 2009, but it has only barely edged up since.

Inflation expectations have edged up a little in recent months.

Spending on services, a broad category that includes everything from haircuts to apartment rents, edged up slightly.

The dollar edged up on the producer price data as investors bet this would make the Fed more wary of aggressively cutting interest rates.

Although the birth rate has edged up since then to 1. 5, it would take a huge social change to push it as high as is needed.

Federal Reserve officials have edged up their assessment of economic conditions but have not significantly revised 2010 forecasts.

One worry is that inflation has edged up in South America (in Brazil it is 6. 9%, above the Central Bank's target).

The Chinese government acted after food prices edged up and news reports said bank lending skyrocketed in the first week of January.

Since then, it has edged up slightly.

Stripping out volatile food and energy costs, core producer prices edged up 0. 1 percent, matching market expectations.

meanwhile, space devoted to processed and heat-and-serve products has edged up 2%.

The Commerce Department report showed orders excluding transportation edged up 0. 2 percent in May after a similar gain the prior month.

Not that it makes pretty viewing: prices edged up by only 0. 7% in the year to January.

The index's annualized growth rate edged up to negative 6. 1 percent from minus 6. 3 percent.

The index's annualized growth rate edged up to minus 10. 7 percent from minus 10. 8 percent, the lowest since October 2001.

Even so, the birth rate edged up only modestly.

In more stable Chile, the middle's income share edged up to 11. 7% in 2009 from 10. 9% in 2000, the same data show.

US orders for durable goods edged up 0. 2 percent in November, weaker than expected, according to government data released Thursday.

While sales have edged up 4. 7 percent this year, those of General Motors Co. 's Cadillac have surged 50 percent.

After accounting for inflation, spending edged up 0. 1%.

U. S. sales edged up 0. 6%, while same-store sales in the U. S. declined 1. 1%.

Bank shares rose 2 per cent or so in the mainland market on Tuesday, but the broader Shanghai index edged up just 0. 2 per cent.

Exports edged up 0. 21 per cent to $142. 9bn thanks to growing global demand for capital goods, cars and parts.

Exports to China rose just 1 percent, while those to Asia overall edged up 0. 4 percent.

The S&P retail index edged up 0. 1 percent.

Although the index edged up 0. 3% Wednesday to 2655. 71, it remains down 19% this year and 24% off its high last August.

Full-year sales edged up 0. 2% to 18. 994 trillion yen.

The average mortgage debt per borrower nationwide edged up to $193, 121 in the third quarter, from $192, 287 last year.

In Shanghai, the composite index edged up 0. 3 per cent to 4, 717. 73.

Shares in Hong Kong edged up, too, and the Shanghai composite was only flat.

the shenzhen composite index for the country ' s smaller second market edged up 0 . 08 percent to 430 . 24