The unemployment rate has jumped in the last six months, to 7 percent, from 5.1 percent in June.

September's decline in gasoline, though small, was the first this year; prices jumped 21.4 percent in the eight months through August.

One of the sites that has released earnings results, the popular auction site, eBay, saw its revenues jump 64% in the last three months of 2001.

Though that rise was small, short interest has been climbing steadily for the last year and has jumped almost 50 percent in the last 12 months.

World demand for crude oil jumped in the last few months because of the unexpectedly cold weather across the Northern Hemisphere.

As it turned out, S.&P. profits jumped nearly 14 percent in the first three months of the year.

Like-for-like sales across Burberry's stores around the world jumped by 14% in the last three months of 2010.

Economic growth all but stopped and unemployment jumped in the three months ended in December after a surprisingly strong third quarter.

(Reportedly, sales of stock in plastics companies jumped in the months after the movie appeared.)

The volatile index of crude goods jumped 2.3 percent in March, the third hefty rise in the four months.