But will the economy stage a strong recovery after the recent period of weakness?
But during the most recent period of high inflation, equities did not live up to their billing.
During the most recent period recorded, five out of six local health boards in Wales had scores higher than 100.
He found that from 2006 to 2008, the most recent period available, U.S. prosecutors dismissed charges against 42 white-collar defendants.
Ms Cooper told MPs that her constituency "was virtually brought to a standstill" during the recent period of cold weather.
Thereafter the Schnidejoch was blocked by the glaciers of the Little Ice Age, the most recent period of intense cold.
As for the recent period, the extremely high growth is probably appropriate, and not inflationary, while credit markets remain frozen and velocity continues to fall.
Between December 2007 and September 2011, the most recent period covered in the report, sentences of black males were 19.5% longer than those for whites.
Abercrombie said its sales fell 10% in the most recent period.
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Local air passenger traffic declined 2.9% during January to November 2012--the most recent period for which comparable numbers are available--to 53.41 million, according to government data.
Revenue in the most recent period was little changed, too.
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Refining companies Valero Energy, Sunoco and Tesoro all took a hit financially during that time (the most recent period for which data are available) largely because of high crude prices.
The Global X Silver Miners ( SIL) has held up much better than either GLD or SLV, which is a bullish sign as the recent period of consolidation shows a flag formation, lines c and d.
Kam Wing Chan of the University of Washington has compiled statistics which show that from 1990 to 2005 the most recent period for which reliable statistics are available there was an overall gross migration across provinces of about 80m migrants (see map).
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As of the end of 2011, the most recent period for which such data is available, 43.8% of CIC's equity holdings was in companies based in North America, followed by 29.6% in the Asian-Pacific region, 20.6% in Europe, 4.7% in Latin America and 1.3% in Africa.
The first three parameters we look to are rising revenues over the most recent three-year period, rising earnings over the recent three-year period and a relatively low or controlled long-term debt to equity.
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For instance, short interest rose by more than 22% during the most recent reporting period.
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Specifically, the number of ANR shares sold short spiked nearly 25% during the most recent reporting period.
During the most recent reporting period, Green Mountain saw the third-largest jump in short interest on the Nasdaq.
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During the most recent reporting period, the number of RIMM shares sold short plunged by more than 19%.
Short interest in Apple has jumped 13% since February, rising nearly 2% during the most recent reporting period.
In their recent test period in November, less than 1 percent of tablet traffic was generated by Nexus tablets.
The oldest ski artefacts, though, come from the more recent Mesolithic period.
All of the metals lost ground during the most recent reporting period.
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Further evidence of this bearish attitude is the fact that short interest on Kimberly-Clark jumped by 20% during the most recent reporting period.
In fact, short interest on the equity surged by 21.3% during the past month, and 13% during just the most recent reporting period.
More disturbing, the bears appear to have realized their folly of abandoning CSCO, as short interest rose 6% during the most recent reporting period.
Even before this recent difficult period, there were questions about what the company was going to do for an encore in 2013 after a spectacular 2012.
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Google, which says it complied with 93% of the requests from American officials in its most recent reporting period, is similarly vague about what it coughs up.
But nothing came of that proposal, as evidenced by the most recent quiet period infraction by Salesforce.com (nyse: CRM - news - people ).
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