Useful terms and expressions

• scoff – уплетать, лопать, жадно есть

• treat – угощение, лакомство

• to gobble – заглатывать, уплетать, пожирать

• upward curve – траектория роста

• a far cry – большая разница, совсем не похоже

• property prices – цены на недвижимость

• to be confined to – ограничиваться, придерживаться

• to go overboard – переборщить, перегнуть палку

• spending power – покупательная способность

Give English equivalents to the following word combinations.

замедление темпов экономического роста в странах с развивающимся рынком; тормозить экономическое оживление; вкладывать средства в новое оборудование; низкий уровень потребительских ожиданий; среднестатистический житель Ирландии; первые признаки экономического оживления; экономический спад; возобновить тенденцию к росту; устойчивое снижение цен на недвижимость; объем продаж новых автомобилей.

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Rite of Spring: u.S. Economy Warms Up After Winter’s Chill

Firming inflation, industrial output and housing market point to solid growth rebound

Economic gauges released Tuesday showed a pickup in industrial output, continued momentum in the housing sector and firming inflation all pointing to stronger—though still unspectacular—growth in the second quarter. That joined other recent data showing a rebound in retail sales, rising consumer confidence and continued job gains.

Federal Reserve officials, wary of volatility in financial markets and weakness overseas, have held short-term interest rates steady this year after raising them in December from near zero. A second-quarter rebound for domestic growth and rising inflation, if sustained, could help push officials to raise rates in the coming months.

Gross domestic product, the broadest measure of goods and services produced across the U.S. economy, expanded at a 0.5% annual rate in the first three months of 2016. But growth appears poised to accelerate.

Since the recession ended, first-quarter GDP growth has frequently come in weak, followed by a stronger second quarter. This year may have been no exception, and Tuesday’s reports reinforced the picture of resumed modest growth in the overall economy.

The Fed said industrial production—a measure of everything made by factories, utilities and mines—surged 0.7% in April, the biggest jump for a single month since November 2014.

Manufacturing production as measured by the Fed has been flat since January, a sign that the factory sector remains weakened after more than a year of pressure from falling oil prices and a strong dollar. But the situation is no longer deteriorating.

The consumer-price index, which measures what Americans pay for everything from fresh fruit to footwear, increased a seasonally adjusted 0.4% in April from the prior month after rising 0.1% in March, the Labor Department said Tuesday. That was the largest one-month increase since February 2013. Business and academic economists surveyed by the Journal this month estimated the U.S. faces a 20% chance of tipping into recession in the next year, down only a bit from a few months earlier.

The Wall Street Journal May 17^th, 2016