That is 66, 000 more jobs than were created in the first half of the year.
That's following an average growth of 1.5% during the first half of the year.
The China market grew by more than 50 percent in the first half of the year.
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Its return on equity in the first half of the year was a measly 1.3%.
Barclays' profit for the first half of the year fell by a third and it is not alone.
Officially, sales in Shanghai, Nanjing and Hangzhou in the first half of the year were down 50%.
Although higher, both growth in both sales and earnings eased from the first half of the year.
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Vacancies continued to shrink in the first half of the year, as companies adjusted to falling demand.
The first half of the year was dominated by blockbusters such as Avatar and Alice in Wonderland.
But sales increased 15% in the first half of the year, despite the fiscal problems in Europe.
Fundamentals for the yellow metal look promising, at least in the first half of the year.
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The first half of the year was marked by what HSBC likes to call quantitative tightening or QT.
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And healthy trading profits during the first half of the year mean bonus pools are growing, not shrinking.
Residential properties accounted for just 3.5% of the division's total revenue in the first half of the year.
During the first half of the year Debenhams opened two stores in the Philippines and one in Iran.
Also in 2007, unemployment increased from 4.5% during the first half of the year to 5% by December.
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In total, complaints about banking products rose by 5% to 828, 040 in the first half of the year.
Shorting financials paid off in China in the first half of the year.
Johnson Matthey cited growth in vehicle production in Europe and North America in the first half of the year.
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The 2D side-scrolling brawler is coming to PSN, XBLA, and PC sometime in the first half of the year.
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Minsheng's corporate loans grew by 42% in the first half of the year.
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Incomes in the first half of the year rose by more than 16%.
China's steel production rose 15% year on year in November after flat-lining in the first half of the year.
In the first half of the year they increased by 1.9% each quarter.
Foxconn International Holdings tumbled 7.4% after core customer Nokia announced a profit warning for the first half of the year.
China bought more JGBs than it sold for the first half of the year, the biggest annual increase since 2005.
According to DigiTimes, the entire computer segment is expected to remain stagnant throughout the first half of the year.
Operating earnings for the first half of the year were down 19% as declining sales were observed across the industry.
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Their battles are largely behind a rise in Cucuta's murder rate of 87% in the first half of the year.
Robertson continued to like Apple into 2012 and added more than 32, 000 shares in the first half of the year.
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