The measure showed a slowdown from the first quarter's upwardly revised rate of 2%.
Sales decreased 16.9 percent to a 250, 000 annual pace in February, down from a revised rate of 301, 000 in January.
Steady economic growth at just below 4% during the first three quarters of 2011 was interrupted by historic flooding in October and November in the industrial areas north of Bangkok, crippling the manufacturing sector and leading to a revised growth rate of only 0.1% for the year.
American productivity growth for the second quarter of 2001 was revised downwards to an annual rate of 2.1%, from 2.5% reported earlier.
Data from Elstat, the country's statistics agency, showed that the number of jobless climbed to 1.08 million, or 21.9% of the work force, up from a revised 21.4% rate in February.
July's upwardly revised 4.79 percent unemployment rate was the lowest in almost a year.
The unemployment rate for November was revised up from 7.7% to 7.8%, the department added.
Economists had been looking for a revised 0.5 percent annual rate of growth.
The rate for November was revised up from an initially reported 7.7 percent.
America's economy grew in the third quarter at a revised 4.0% annual rate, up from the earlier estimate of 3.1%.
Housing starts fell 10 percent, the biggest decline since March 2009, to a 593, 000 annual rate, from a revised 659, 000 pace in April that was less than previously estimated, Commerce Department figures showed today in Washington.
Sapir personally guaranteed the loan, from a Blackstone-controlled fund, at 18% interest, and later revised it to an even steeper interest rate of 20%.
With a weak recovery to start 2013, "Fitch has not revised its previous judgment that the potential annual growth rate of the UK economy is around 2.25 percent, " the statement said.
Figures released on May 24th showed that America's economic expansion in the first three months of this year was marginally weaker than previously thought: GDP grew at an annual rate of 5.6%, revised from the first estimate of 5.8% (though the final figure, which could also be revised, will not be available for some time yet).
Then it slowed a bit to 2.2% in Q1, only to get revised down to a tepid 1.9% annual rate.
While bankers said that the CRR hike is unlikely to impact banks' prime-lending rate, the Reserve Bank of India has revised its forecast of bank credit growth downwards from 18% to 16%.
Indeed, a surge in export sales in June probably means that GDP growth for the most recent quarter will be revised up from 1.9% at an annualised rate, which is already respectable.
The US economy grew at its fastest rate in two years in the first quarter, revised figures show.
In the second quarter its GDP grew at an annualised rate of 1.7%, according to revised figures published on August 29th.
Building of single-family homes, which make up some 60% of the market, fell 4.8% to an annual rate of 619, 000, although the department revised up its figure for February, saying starts were 5.2% higher than it had previously thought.
This helped push the overall unemployment rate down to 7.8% from a previously revised reading of 8.0%.
Economic recovery seems to be gathering speed: according to revised figures published on Wednesday, the economy grew at an annual rate of 3.9% in the second quarter.
Starts, which are a forward indicator as they track construction, rose by an annualized rate of 750, 000 in August from a downwardly revised 733, 000 in June.
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The expectations of a rate hike are building up even as banks announce their revised lending rates in response to the 25-basis point increase in rates last month.
The revised figure shows a big jump over the 1.3% annual rate of growth in the second quarter.
According to figures released earlier this month, GDP grew at an annualised rate of 4.3% in the third quarter, revised upward from a preliminary estimate of 3.8% issued in November.
The unemployment rate held steady at 9.1%, but the report revised both the June and July reports lower.
The National Association of Realtors said existing home sales plunged 27.2% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 3.8 million units in July from a downwardly revised 5.3 million in June.
In a 1965 article for Electronics magazine he formulated Moore's Law, which predicted that the power of computer chips would double every year (later revised to every 18 months) while the cost would decrease at a similar rate.
Nevermind that white scientists revised and resubmitted rejected applications much more often, hoping for a second shot at funding for their second rate proposals.
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