Foreign direct investment climbed nearly 30 per cent in the first six months of 2010 from a year earlier.

Sales climbed 9 percent, to $49.3 billion in the first four months of this year, and Mercedes sales jumped 14 percent.

Many experts believe that the euro will climb again in the months ahead.

The same is true for foreign investors, who, having seen their local stock markets climb in the last few months, have been venturing into American equities.

"It should be interesting to see her struggle to climb the social ladder in the next few months."

Medco sales climbed 34 percent, to $1.81 billion, in the 12 months that ended last June 30.

Economists said rates might start to climb in the next few months.

Mr. Baydemir said reports of torture and other abuses to his office had climbed in the last three months after dropping off for two years.

Ashton-Tate, a computer software company, for instance, has climbed to 30 from 17 in the last three months.

Applications to the pardon office climbed rapidly in the months that followed, with the total number that fiscal year growing 30 percent, to 1,300.