There is negative growth in Greece and Portugal and Ireland is at best flat-lining.
The economy needs to register two consecutive quarters of negative growth to be in recession.
Recession is often defined as two consecutive quarters of negative growth - or economic contraction.
We have just learned the U.S. economy had negative growth in the fourth quarter.
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Badly run countries showed negligible or negative growth, and no amount of aid altered this.
In an annual basis, three cities ( Atlanta, New York, and Chicago) showed negative growth rates.
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The technical definition of a recession is two consecutive quarters of negative growth.
By contrast, a low or even negative growth is a signal of competitive weakness the company is the wrong business.
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Metal industries report negative growth expectations for everything except new graduate hiring, which is expecting a moderate budgetary increase.
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Comparison Shopping (CSE): Surged to 15.5% growth vs. the negative growth rates in the first ten months of 2011.
If you shut down the economy for five days in any quarter, you're probably going to have negative growth rates.
They further suggest that the negative growth rate effect of high debt may start from levels of around 70-80% of GDP.
We have a long way to go and we should expect high unemployment, low or negative growth, bankruptcies, bear markets, foreclosures.
That negative growth, correlated as it was with a big drop in government spending, is a precursor of things to come.
The eurozone has now contracted for three straight quarters a recession is officially defined as two quarters of negative growth.
Instead, in the fourth quarter of 2012, 5 years after the recession started, the economy was contracting again, with negative growth.
That would mean less debt, but at a price: two years of negative growth, with unemployment rising above 26% in 2013.
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Most agreed that tackling the deficit would certainly slow economic growth in the near term, potentially even producing periods of negative growth.
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In fact, negative growth episodes typically subside in just under two years.
Few economists believe there is a serious danger of recession in Germany, in the sense of negative growth over at least two quarters.
In developed economies a hard landing implies negative growth, but not in China, where growth has averaged 9% over the past two decades.
Ed Miliband was helped by events such as the surge in oil prices and Britain's slip back into negative growth late last year.
As our study indicates, each recession in the past 42 years was preceded by a period of negative growth in real gross total debt.
Reports Friday said the European Union collective economy will contract in the fourth quarter of 2012, marketing the third straight quarter of negative growth.
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Although it was thought to have been in recession in 2012, these figures have now been revised to show only one quarter of negative growth.
Now, if your definition of a recession is the traditional one of two consecutive quarters of negative growth, then those very few contrarians are correct.
The US may not technically see a recession, viewed as two back-to-back quarters of negative growth, but the slowing would be quite noticeable, Bergsten said.
Smaller ad units, meanwhile, saw negligible or negative growth in impressions.
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We can have low growth, no growth, or negative growth, but experience shows also that we can have growth with unemployment, which is not necessarily better.
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