Economic and financial indicators Mar 1st 2007

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Economic and financial indicators
Mar 1st 2007
From The Economist print edition
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In America new orders for durable goods fell by 7.8% in January. GDP grew at an annualised rate of 2.2% in the fourth quarter, revised down from a preliminary estimate of 3.5%. There were mixed signals from America‘s housing market. Sales of new one-family homes fell by 16.6% in January, but sales of existing homes rose by 3% in the month.
Germany‘s unemployment rate fell to 9.3% in February, the lowest since August 2001.
Industrial production in Japan fell by 1.5% in January, the first drop in four months.
In South Korea industrial output rose by 1.3% in January. Brazil‘s GDP grew by 1.1% in the fourth quarter.
Poland‘s central bank kept its benchmark interest rate at 4% on February 28th.