The bank reported a 7 percent sequential increase in its brokerage assets during the second quarter, the first quarterly growth since late 2000.
The cable company has announced its best quarterly growth in TV subscribers for seven years.
They became even more suspect recently when the government omitted an important piece of information on quarterly growth, apparently for the first time.
That was the slowest quarterly growth in four years.
Currently, we're looking at an annual quarterly growth of rate of 1 to 2 percent for the first half.
In addition, freed from the pressure to please the stock market with predictable quarterly growth, some managers say they can operate far more efficiently.
The new figure represented the fastest quarterly growth since late 1993.
Most of the quarterly growth came from overseas operations.
West Germany posted its strongest quarterly economic growth of this decade, according to data released today.
Analysts had expected quarterly growth of five-tenths of 1 percent.