Surprise US growth ブイ，浮標s market

By This Is Money
Updated: 00:00 BST, 31 October 2001

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STOCKS 延長するd their 伸び（る）s in 早期に afternoon 貿易（する） after 決定的な data out of the US showed the world's largest economy was 持つ／拘留するing up far better than 恐れるd.

The blue-半導体素子 FTSE 100, sapped in 早期に 貿易（する） by 激しい losses 夜通し on 塀で囲む Street, put on 84.8 at 5088.4 as 投資する ors bet the stronger-than-推定する／予想するd 甚だしい／１２ダース 国内の 製品 data would 誘発する an 早期に 決起大会／結集させる in US markets.

US GDP shrank 0.4% in the third ４半期/4分の1, its first 拒絶する／低下する in eight years and its largest in more than ten. The 業績／成果 反映するd a sharp pullback in spending by 消費者s, which slowed to the weakest pace in more than eight years, and a continued 急落（する），激減（する） in 投資 by 商売／仕事s in new 工場／植物s and 器具／備品.

But 経済学者s had 予報するd a 減少（する） of 1%, a 人物／姿／数字 that would 確認する 恐れるs of 後退，不況. 'It's sort of a sigh of 救済,' said Eric Nickerson, 長，指導者 通貨 strategist with the Bank of America in New York. 'The market was を締めるing for a -1.0 人物／姿／数字, and this looks a little encouraging. But keep in mind...everything still portends for a rather ugly fourth ４半期/4分の1.'

Pundits hoped the data would help 上げる 感情 on 塀で囲む Street when 貿易（する）ing begins later this afternoon. But the strength of the data may scupper hopes of その上の 削減（する）s in US 利益／興味 率s - which some had 推定する／予想するd could be 発表するd by the 連邦の Reserve next week.

America's central bank has already 削減（する） 利益／興味 率s nine times this year in an 試みる／企てる to 生き返らせる the economy. They are 現在／一般に at 2.5%, the lowest since 1962. 投資家s are hoping lower 率s and 増加するd 政府 spending will 誘発する a 回復する in 2002.