What I want is reasonable contraction.
The National Bureau of Economic Research made the designation on Monday, citing the scale and severity of the current contraction.
On a per-capita GDP basis, the global contraction will be the deepest since 1945-46, as World War II spending dried up.
A recent report released by Changjiang Securities, a securities firm based in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, suggests the contraction in high-end cosmetics market in China as a result of slowed consumption growth has boosted markets for more affordable products and forced luxury brands to lower prices in the country.
1 per cent contraction but still down substantially from growth of 5.
The dollar value of China's exports and imports grew in November after two months of contraction and in the face of a rally by the greenback that followed last month's US presidential election.
China's dollar-denominated export contraction softened further in August as imports returned to growth for the first time since 2014.
6 per cent in 2015, the first contraction since the crisis year of 2009.
The dollar staged a mini-rally in the wake of the final reading of US first-quarter growth on Wednesday which confirmed that the contraction in the US economy was not as deep as first suspected.
It promotes our heart and lung function by increasing their expansion and contraction, which is beneficial for resisting pressure from longtime labor or extra-strength work.
Any score less than 50 indicates contraction.
8 reading but still below the 50-point level that separates growth in the sector from contraction.
Then there's the oddly specific Dutch word kalkoen, which, as a contraction of Calicut-hoen, literally means "hen from Calicut," a major Indian commercial center at the time.
5 per cent contraction in 2015 and a 3 per cent contraction in 2016.
The study, using MRIs, found people who consumed energy drinks had significantly increased heart contraction rates, causing more strain on the left ventricle, the portion of the heart involved in pumping blood from the lungs to the aorta and distributing it to the rest of the body.
So what explains the contraction?
), a type of mammal endowed with the sixth sense of electroreception, the ability to sense electric fields generated by muscular contraction.