"Earlier in the year we were pacing higher than that," says Kilar.
Economic growth hit a pace far higher than what anyone considered sustainable.
Yet individual investors continue to pour money into mutual funds at a pace even higher than last year's, especially those buying aggressive growth companies, according to AMG Data, which tracks mutual fund inflows.
Charles Schwab, the giant brokerage house based in San Francisco, reports that its clients continue to add tens of billions of dollars in new cash to their accounts every month, a pace substantially higher than last year's.
Saddled with the nation's highest minimum wage, Gates' own home state of Washington has nevertheless managed to add jobs at a pace significantly higher than the country as a whole.
While our response rate seems low, this rate was higher than we anticipated for the fast paced environments where we collected data.
The pace is 3.6percentt higher than it was a year earlier, the trade group said.
Through Friday, 1,105 guns have been found this year, a pace that is higher than last year's.
American workers' productivity grew at a 2.7percentt annual pace in the fourth quarter of 2003, the Labor Department reported yesterday, well down from the previous quarter's heated pace though slightly higher than expectations.
That compares with the 3.5percentt pace previously reported and higher than Wall Street estimates of 4.5percentt.
