The report issued Wednesday includes enrollments for both October and November and reflects a nearly fourfold increase in enrollments via the federal exchanges in the second month compared with the first.
Spending rose 0.3 percent, or $34.7 billion, compared with January, the fifth month of increases.
After the Packers won the N.F.C. championship, there were 43 times more online searches for flights to Dallas from Milwaukee compared with the first two weekends of January, when the first two playoff rounds were played, according to Kayak.com, a travel search site.
G.M.'s sales were down 51percentt in January and February compared with the first two months of 2008.
This January and February, compared with the first two months of 2008, there was a 27percentt reduction in the number of "playing weeks" on Broadway.
Italy's gross domestic product declined 0.7 percent in the April-June period, compared with the first three months of the year, according to the country's official statistical agency, Istat.
Switzerland, which because of its openness to its neighbors is seen by some economists as a proxy for the overall European economy, reported Tuesday that its real gross domestic product fell 0.3percentt in the April-June period compared with the first three months of the year.
Meanwhile, even before Sept. 11, newsstand sales were hurting, the circulation bureau reports: through June, compared with the first six months of 2000, Money was down 25percentt; Smart Money, 30percentt; Kiplinger's, 42percentt; and Mutual Funds, 43percentt.
Since June 2009, more than 24,000 manufacturing jobs have been added in Juárez, on the Texas-Mexico border, and the amount of tractor-trailer traffic hauling goods through the region increased by 22 percent from January to June of 2010 compared with the first six months of last year.
G.M.'s sales in Western Europe slid 7percentt in the year through October, compared with the first 10 months of 1999, and the company has said it expects to post a "significant" fourth-quarter loss in Europe.
