The strong Lumia performance, together with a sustained high demand for Asha smartphones in the emerging markets, helped the company maintain underlying profitability for the full year despite reporting losses in the first half of the year.
The sector was first into the downturn in the first half of last year and the first out since March 2012.
Online retailer Amazon announced 100 news jobs at its Dublin development centre in May, and the body representing technology firms in Ireland said some 4, 000 new posts had been created in the sector in the first half of the year.
Sales at LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton, the world's largest luxury goods maker, grew 3 percent in the third quarter, versus the 5 percent increase posted in the first half of the year.
Although there has been slight growth in the European and UK economies in the first half of the year, the manufacturing indicator decline was unexpected and fuels worries that European economies are headed for an extended bumpy ride.
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The Mexican economy expanded by an average of 4.4 percent in the first half of the year, but in June the monthly GDP proxy index at the Central Bank (Banxico) showed growth dipping to 3.8 percent, mainly because of a slowdown in U.S. demand.
In our diversified micro cap GAMCO Westwood Mighty Mites Fund (WEMMX), merger and acquisition activity has also been robust, with six announced acquisitions of holdings in the September quarter joining the seven announced in the first half of the year.
DWS, the mutual-fund arm of Deutsche Bank, money is still flowing in, if not at the same rate as in the first half of the year, and not just into blue-chip investments.
He expected 2006 to be a tough year for Nissan because of a new product drought in the first half of the year.
Elsewhere, spending on construction projects in the U.S. fell in January for the first time in half a year, an indication that the market for builders remains shaky.
The economy had stumbled badly in the first half of the year, and as the 2nd half began, economic reports coming in for July and August were even worse.
Growth was 140% in the first half of 2007 and 50% in the first half of this year, according to market research firm NPD Group.
The U.S. dollar fell about 2% in 2010 and it continued to lose ground against global currencies in the first half of 2011, depreciating 3% in the first half of the year.
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The China market grew by more than 50 percent in the first half of the year.
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Fundamentals for the yellow metal look promising, at least in the first half of the year.
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Residential properties accounted for just 3.5% of the division's total revenue in the first half of the year.
The 2D side-scrolling brawler is coming to PSN, XBLA, and PC sometime in the first half of the year.
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The Home Builders Federation (HBF) said approval was given for 5, 478 Scottish homes in the first half of the year.
The economy has been doing well, though that was partially because of the U.S. in the first half of the year.
The U.S. economy was humming along in the first half of the year, with the jobless rate falling below 9 percent.
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The firm suffered in the first half of the year after delays on passing on higher selling prices to customers until October.
Exports to the Far East were up almost a third in the first half of the year, said the Scotch Whisky Association.
Although Venezuela is the world's fifth largest oil exporter, its economy contracted by more than 7% in the first half of the year.
The company said rainfall across the UK in the first half of the year had been at its lowest level for since 1964.
The economy basically stalled in the first half of the year.
"This inflation news would open the door for Fed action if the unemployment rate is drifting higher in the first half of the year, " said Mr. Kasman.
The report noted that so-called "mega-lawsuits" had nearly tripled in the first half of the year as a result of the credit crisis and extreme market volatility.
Customs data showed that China imported 9, 300 tonnes of polysilicon from the EU in the first half of the year, an increase of 30.8% from a year earlier.
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It plans to expand the test into 60 more U.S. stores, as well as 10 European and 10 Australian stores, most of which will open in the first half of the year.
Meanwhile, the Federal Reserve and Wall Street are assuring us that the economic slowdown in the first half of the year was temporary, that the current quarter and second half will see a robust recovery.
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