In fact, according to the NBS, it was 9.5%, a significant upturn from the third quarter's 9.1%.The bureau put a brave face on the figures, attributing the quickened pace of growth at the end of last year to stronger than expected performances in agriculture and services the parts of the economy China still wants to boost.
We know many finance directors are calling for the pace of service transformation to be quickened to help with delivering high quality, safe care in an efficient and appropriate manner.
But Western Hymn quickened impressively to put daylight between himself and the rest.
Derek Sach, president of the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry, says that "stress and sickness have undoubtedly increased as the internet and mobile phones have quickened the pace of life in the workplace".
British inflation quickened to 3.4% in March from 3% in February.
Wholesale-price inflation, which forms the basis for policy decisions, quickened further to 10.6% in June from 10.2% a month earlier.On July 14th Thailand's central bank raised its policy rate for the first time since August 2008, by 25 basis points to 1.5%.
The 12-month rate of growth in broad money quickened to 7.3% in the Netherlands in July; its narrow measure of money rose by 9.6%.In this section PENSION FUNDS TRADE, EXCHANGE RATES AND RESERVES STOCKMARKETS MONEY AND INTEREST RATES Reprints.
On July 16th new figures showed China's GDP growth quickened to 7.9% in the year to the second quarter.
Hong Liang at Goldman Sachs reckons that a 10% rise in the yuan's trade-weighted value would knock 1.5 percentage points off inflation over two years.The yuan's appreciation has already quickened this year, rising by an annual rate of 9% since April, compared with only 3.4% in 2006.
In the same period, producer-price inflation quickened in Canada (to 0.9%), but fell in Denmark (1.2%) and in Italy (0.8%).
Turkey's GDP growth quickened to 7.2% in the year to the first quarter.
