"We may have a smaller problem in percentage terms" compared with previous years, said Jean Ross, executive director of the California Budget Project, a nonpartisan budget research group.
In the first half of this year, Gerdau's profitability rose 6percentt in local currency terms, compared with the similar period last year.
But it has never crossed my mind to call myself black Latina or Indian Latina, because those would be arbitrary terms compared with simply saying, "I'm Puerto Rican".
In simple terms, compared with London, we have halved our space and doubled our rent; we have 900 sq ft [84 sq m].
The new data showed spending by households headed by salaried workers was 3.3percentt lower in June in real terms, compared with the same month last year.
China's exports fell 0.25 percent in September in dollar terms compared with a year ago, well below most economists' expectations.
By 2013, wages for under-35s had declined in real terms compared with those of people the same age three decades earlier, even when stripping out the effect of long-term unemployment during the worst recession in recent memory.
Over all, more than four million loans worth $717 billion were in the three distressed categories in February, a jump of more than 60percentt in dollar terms compared with a year earlier.
A poll by Ipsos-Mori showed that 39% of French people think the EU should offer the UK unfavourable terms, compared with only 19% that wanted a favourable deal.
For the third quarter, the central bank estimated gross domestic product growth at 0.25percentt in real terms compared with the second quarter of this year, continuing the slow growth in the two preceding quarters.
