For the UK as a whole, the first quarter of the year saw total workloads edge higher.
For the first quarter of the year, Netflix added 2 million U.S. subscribers.
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Overall, residential real estate prices soared 68% in the first quarter of the year, compared to the corresponding period last year.
In the first quarter of the year, small-cap stocks fared very well.
Iraqi nationals remain the largest group of applicants with 3, 420 new claims, up a fifth on the first quarter of the year.
The company said upon unveiling the new slogan earlier this month that creative executions would begin occurring during the first quarter of the year.
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During the first quarter of the year, cable companies added 980, 000 subscribers, or 75 percent of new subscribers, compared to 320, 000 new telco broadband subscribers.
Accountants KPMG said a total of 159 firms collapsed during the first quarter of the year - down from 294 in the same period last year.
The first quarter of the year before the election there's generally not been a lot of money raised up to now because it's so far out.
For the first quarter of the year, which ended Thursday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average surged 11%, marking its best opening quarter of a year since 1998.
The quarterly earnings statement also revealed weak demand in the eurozone market, which led to an 11% drop in annual sales in the first quarter of the year.
Home prices haven't increased during the first quarter of the year since 2006, and the quarterly gain of 1.8% this year was the largest for the January-to-March period since 2005.
Global markets continued to improve over the first quarter of the year with equities rallying around the prospect of a sustained U.S. economic recovery and continued support from the Fed.
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Markets were obscenely high in the first quarter of the year, valuing companies that sometimes owned little more than an idea higher than companies with real products, assets and a history of profits.
The demonstrations came as the latest jobless figures were released, which revealed the unemployment rate topped 27% in the first quarter of the year, with unemployment among people under 25 years old reaching 57.2%.
Its latest jobless figures, published last week, revealed that the unemployment rate topped 27% in the first quarter of the year, with the rate of unemployment among people under 25 years old reaching 57.2%.
Despite the overall growth in the U.S. market, installations in California, long the sun king, fell 16% to 94 megawatts in the second quarter of 2011 compared to the first quarter of the year.
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In the first quarter of the year, the stock added more than 65%, suggesting to many that a bottom has finally been hit and that better days will continue to be ahead for this stock.
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In a conference call with analysts, Chief Financial Officer Steve Hare said sales at established restaurants in the first quarter of the year are off to a solid start after a modest performance a year ago.
In fact, a recent assessment by HSBC names 'tough operating conditions for businesses in Vietnam', as one of the main factors behind the slowing of the country's economic growth in the first quarter of the year.
The main areas of growth in the first quarter of the year, according to the figures, were food, drink and tobacco, which were up 5.3%, as well as wood, paper, publishing and printing, which were up 4.8%.
Global investors, including U.S. institutional investors, submitted bids totaling more than four times the debt on offer, underscoring confidence in China despite data released Monday showing that its economy slowed unexpectedly in the first quarter of the year.
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China had some good news on Friday for countries that have been courting its overseas travelers: outboard tourism grew by 16% in the first quarter of the year to 22.6 million trips, according to figures from the China National Tourism Administration.
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The group believes that the UK economy will grow by 0.3% in the first quarter of the year, after the economy shrank in the last quarter of 2012 - the first period in what some feared might be another six months of negative growth.
Putting that growth into perspective, nominal GDP expanded at 4.6% in the year through the first quarter of 2007, 4.1% the following year, contracted in the year through the first quarter of 2009 and advanced by just 2.9% in the 12 months through the first quarter of this year.
Solar shares fell some 32% on the NEX in the first quarter of the year and have suffered again in recent weeks, a drop that Prideaux blames on proposals in Germany and Spain to cut generous feed-in tariffs that oblige utilities to buy renewable electricity at above market prices.
As of the first calendar quarter of the year, AMD accounted for 16.6% of the overall PC and server microprocessor market, compared to Intel's 82.2%, according to Cave Creek, Ariz.
But looking ahead, Mr Clare said it was too early to draw any firm conclusions for the year ahead as the first quarter of the financial year was a traditionally quiet time for the group.
But it has shaved nearly a full percentage point off its estimate of growth next year a reflection that after the spurt of growth in the first quarter of this year, the economy has been weaker than expected.
Government data Thursday showed India's GDP grew just 4.5% in the October-December quarter, about half the rate of growth in the first quarter of the 2011 calendar year, underscoring the severe slowdown due to problems such as elevated inflation and wide fiscal and current account deficits.
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