Australian GDP growth slows to 3%
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Australiaâs economic growth slowed in the third quarter to 0.3 percent amid a sluggish export sector, below expectations and raising doubts about the need for tighter monetary policy.
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Australia pared its economic growth forecast yesterday because of sluggish exports, as expected, but said rising tax receipts would boost the country&#39;s budget surplus.
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SINGAPORE - Singapore&#39;s economy slowed in the third quarter but still recorded growth of 7.7% year-on-year, the government said Monday.
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The economy grew at a 3.8 percent annual rate in the April-to-June quarter, slightly less robust than a previous estimate of a 4 percent growth rate.
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October 30, 2004 -- The US economy grew at a slower-than-expected 3.7 percent annual rate in the third quarter as rising oil prices contributed to a record trade deficit and companies added less to inventories.
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WASHINGTON -- The economy nearly stalled in the first quarter with growth slowing to a pace of just 0.6 percent. That was the worst three-month showing in over four years.
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Annual economic growth in China has slowed for the third quarter in a row, to 9.1 percent, responding to Beijing&#39;s efforts to rein in breakneck investment and lending, third-quarter official data shows.
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BEIJING - Growth in China's economy slowed slightly in the third quarter, a sign that tightening measures were taking effect, the government said yesterday. Economists said the peak of the latest boom may have passed.
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Britain's economy grew 0.7 percent in the third quarter, according to official data published Thursday.
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New figures show Japan's economy is barely staying out of recession with annual growth of just 0.2% in the third quarter.
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China&#39;s economic growth has slowed for a third straight quarter as efforts by the government to rein in booming expansion continue to take hold.
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Economic growth in the euro area slowed to 3 percent while the EU as a whole expanded by a slower 3.2 percent in the first three months of the year as household spending barely moved, the European Union said Friday.
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US economic growth will slow to 3.3 per cent in 2005, more than a full percentage point below this year, with the effect of high energy prices dragging on the economy for the next few quarters, the OECD said on Tuesday.
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The countryâs trade deficit narrowed in January as coal and manufacturing exports rose, signaling that growth may pick up in the Asia-Pacific regionâs fifth-largest economy. The trade shortfall narrowed to 876 million Australian dollars ($677 million) from 1.38 billion Australian dollars in December, the Bureau of Statistics reported. Exports rose 2 percent and imports dropped 1 percent. Total exports climbed to 18.12 billion Australian dollars in January. Farm exports like meat, sugar, wheat and wool declined 1 percent. Shipments of nonrural goods, which include minerals, increased 3 percent. Total imports fell to 18.99 billion Australian dollars from December. Imports of intermediate goods, which include fuel, decreased 1 percent.
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Growth of the US economy slowed to an annual rate of 2.8 percent in the second quarter of this year, lower than the 3.0 percent rate previously estimated, the US Commerce Department reported on Friday.
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WASHINGTON, Oct 29  - The US economy grew at a 3.7 percent annual pace in the third quarter, the government said Friday, unleashing a last-gasp scrap in the lock-tight, four-day race to the White House.
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The US economy grew at a slower-than- expected 3.7 percent annual rate in the third quarter as rising oil prices contributed to a record trade deficit and companies added less to inventories.