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Critics will use them to demand a slowdown on deficit reduction and a more fiscally lax approach.
At constant currency rates sales were up 2%, albeit this was a slowdown on the first half.
First Union is confronting a slowdown on Wall Street, particularly in corporate lending, which accounts for more than half the division's revenue.
The US economy showed further signs of a slowdown on Friday as the US Department of Labor announced just 160,000 new jobs had been created in April, 40,000 fewer than had been expected.
Andy Haldane cited evidence of a slowdown on the domestic front and risks to the global economy from China, where an economic downturn has coincided with a stock market rout that has sent shockwaves through the world's markets.
Pubs group Mitchells & Butlers ended 1.5p higher at 423.5p after saying sales for the 17 weeks to 24 January were up 1.7%, a slowdown on the 2.4% growth in the first eight weeks of the period.
Nicholas Ayre, managing director of homebuying agency Home Fusion, said: 'While October figures are still moving ahead and are higher than the previous three months, what we are also seeing is a growth slowdown on a quarterly basis.
Now, after observing a notoriously choked stretch of autobahn, two German researchers think they understand better why even a minor slowdown on a packed highway can rapidly trigger long-lasting gridlock: Traffic at times appears to act like a substance rapidly changing from, say, a gas to a liquid.
More worrisome would be a slowdown based on extreme levels of overcapacity among the nation's manufacturers.
PAGE C1 THE LATEST SIGN OF A SLOWDOWN News on the economy was mixed, with the price index for finished goods falling 0.9percentt in August and consumer spending on retail and food decreasing 0.3percentt, according to the Census Bureau.
First Union is in the midst of refining the scope and size of its capital markets business, after making four acquisitions of midsize investment banks since 1997, and amid a slowdown overall on Wall Street.
