Hardest-hit would be interest-rate sensitive stocks of consumer-goods, financing and auto companies.
Americans are consuming less and saving more--their savings rate hit a 15-year high last month.
As with its view of the U.S., the commission takes a pessimistic view of the natural unemployment rate in recession-hit countries such as Spain and Ireland, where it see the natural rate at over 18% and 12%, respectively.
Two-thirds of those hit with the new 11% tax rate are small and medium-sized business owners.
Their unemployment rate hit a 25-year high, just under 15 percent, in the midst of the recovery.
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The Brazilian economy is now the sixth largest in the world, having passed the United Kingdom, whose unemployment rate hit a 17-year high.
This time last month, we told you the nation's unemployment rate had hit a four-year high.
The three-month, dollar-denominated London interbank offered rate hit 0.303%, touching a level not seen since April.
Shares in financial companies, which are particularly sensitive to interest-rate moves, have been hit hard.
Gulfport-Biloxi's unemployment rate hit 23.2 percent the month after Katrina, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The average U.S. top combined state-federal marginal tax rate would hit about 52%.
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From the 1950s through the 1970s, for example, Britain was burdened with onerous taxes--the top personal tax rate hit 98%.
The hit rate for those searched under anti-terrorism powers is especially dismal.
That might not seem a big percentage, but the hit rate will get better as face-recognition software improves and more snaps are uploaded.
The result of these estimates and assumptions is that the commission believes the potential growth rate of the hardest-hit countries has suffered long-term damage.
One issue the Romney campaign is certain to hit on: the unemployment rate among 20-24 year olds is five points higher than the national average.
But Australia chose to use occasional bowlers in a bid to speed-up their slow over-rate, and Mahendra Dhoni hit 55 in a vital 108 stand with Harbhajan Singh.
It was a response to the country's growing divorce rate, which hit an all-time high of 50% in 2006 - indeed, 66% of marriages in Vienna end in divorce.
The London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) hit a 10-month high of 0.53781%.
Of more concern to investors is Apple sales growth forecast for the current quarter of around 7 percent far from the 50-percent-plus rate it's often hit in recent years.
Despite the pessimistic consumer environment, credit card delinquency rates hit a record low as the 30-plus day delinquency rate fell by 10 basis points.
Stock investors took their cue and began buying on the hope that the Fed will hit the brakes on its series of 17 consecutive interest-rate increases.
Senior Intel management, notably Chief Executive Paul Otellini, has signaled concern over sufficient manufacturing capacity in 2010 should the PC industry hit or exceed a prospective 10%-15% unit rate of growth.
So far, Warner has bought four of the movies that KatzSmith has pitched them including two that Mr. Grahame-Smith is writing an unusually high hit rate, says Greg Silverman, the studio's president of production.
The unemployment rate is the highest in Europe, hitting a record 27% in November, while the jobless rate for those aged 15-24 has hit a staggering 61.7% and there are concerns that it is set to go higher.
But in 1990, a year when the islands' unemployment rate hit a high of 20%, Antunes -- who has also represented his country at basketball and table tennis -- leapt at the chance to train as an air traffic controller.
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His view is that the successful hit rate on incoming warheads could be as low as 5-10%.
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