1.  The rate cut comes after a batch of gloomy economic statistics showing that unemployment is rising while consumer confidence is plunging.

2.  But, as the latest gloomy statistics for the Japanese economy clearly indicate, this old formula for economic activity is unlikely to stimulate enhanced economic expansion.

3.  In a deteriorating economy in which many business conglomerates cannot pay their debts in their entirety, this is a gloomy statistic indeed.

4.  With such gloomy statistics, is it any wonder tobacco shop owner Joseph Twardy is embarrassed to tell people where he lives?

5.  Yet any hopes aggressive government efforts will jump start an anemic economy were overshadowed by the latest batch of gloomy statistics.

6.  Despite the gloomy statistics, Haq said South Asia had enormous development potential if sufficient investment is made in human development.