American industrial production grew by 0.4% in November, after a downwardly revised 0.2% decline in October.China's inflation rate jumped to 5.1% in November from the previous month's 4.4%.
No wonder the local currency, the dalasi, fell by 12% against the dollar last year.In this section Rich but rash A peg in a poke Getting around Uncle Sam Still kicking Not contagious Easing means squeezing Downwardly mobile As safe as houses ReprintsA weak currency is a worry, since Gambians rely heavily on imported food.
The Conference Board's consumer-confidence index rose to 109.8 in May, up from a (downwardly) revised 108.5 in April.
For over a third, their direction was upwards; a fifth were downwardly mobile.
Banks, which own lots of them, will be the biggest sellers.In this section Rich but rash A peg in a poke Getting around Uncle Sam Still kicking Not contagious Easing means squeezing Downwardly mobile As safe as houses ReprintsWithout QE, bankers would now have been fretting about the prospect of deflation.
The long run of ever-expanding compensation for executives is under threat from investors on both sides of the Atlantic.Aviva, a British insurer with a downwardly mobile share price, announced on April 30th that its chief executive would forgo a planned pay rise because of shareholder criticism.
Anyone who stands in the middle risks getting crushed".In this section Rich but rash A peg in a poke Getting around Uncle Sam Still kicking Not contagious Easing means squeezing Downwardly mobile As safe as houses ReprintsThe Swiss were caught in the middle.
The prime minister, Narendra Modi, launched the initiative at the end of August, setting a target of 75m new accounts by Republic Day, January 26th.In this section Rich but rash A peg in a poke Getting around Uncle Sam Still kicking Not contagious Easing means squeezing Downwardly mobile As safe as houses ReprintsThe scheme's initial goal has been surpassed: 120m accounts have been opened.
Having already lent so much to Venezuela, will it give Mr Maduro yet more to prevent his country from going over the edge?In this section Rich but rash A peg in a poke Getting around Uncle Sam Still kicking Not contagious Easing means squeezing Downwardly mobile As safe as houses ReprintsAnd Venezuela presents just the first such dilemma for China.
Of course she does give us the salient facts: the improvident Melvilles, a Boston merchant family, educated and sometimes dashing; the Gansevoorts, his mother's Dutch-settler fambitiousbitious and sometimes snobby; Herman's childhood, upwardly and downwardly mobile, as his father's affairs prospered or, more often, failed.
This inner sheath is composed of three layers, known respectively as Henle's layer (the outermost), consisting of horny, fibrous, oblong cells; Huxley's layer, with polyhedral, nucleated cells containing pigment granules; and the cuticle of the root sheath, having a layer of downwardly imbricate scales (overlapping like roof tiles) that fit over the upwardly imbricate scales of the hair proper.
