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ROME adidas ultra boost 3.0 for sale ,June 25 (Xinhua) -- Italy was in mourning Wednesday after a 0-1 World Cup soccer loss to Uruguay sealed its ignominious exit from the world's most watched sporting event.

Experts say that in addition to dashing Italy's hopes for a second World Cup title in eight years, it will also have a short-term impact on the country's slow-moving economic turnaround.

"There's no doubt that there's a wide but short-term impact from an emotional event like this," Maria Rossi from the polling firm Opinioni told Xinhua.

"When the national team wins in such a high-profile tournament, people feel more optimistic afterwards, they go out, spend more, they feel better about the future. And of course the opposite happens with a loss adidas ultra boost for sale ," she added.

Any downturn in economic activity could be bad news for Italian aspirations for an economic turnaround. Italy's economy has shrunk in per-capita terms every year since 2010. But there are hopes it will show positive growth this year.

In recent months, economic indicators have been mixed -- but improving.

ISTAT, the country's National Statistics Institute, reported Wednesday that retail sales rose 2.6 percent in April, the last month with comprehensive statistics available, the best one-month figure since 2011.

Consumer confidence is showing signs of life in June, after falling in April and May. But economic growth figures remain anemic adidas tubular x for sale , and unemployment levels, particularly among young workers, are still mired near historical highs.

U.S. ratings agencies like Standard & Poor's and Fitch continue to say the outlook for Italy is negative, even as bond yields -- the most immediate barometer of the country's economic risks as determined by investors -- remain near all-time euro-era lows, a very positive indicator.

"The consensus is that the economy is improving, but very gradually," Javier Noriega adidas pure boost zg for sale , chief economist with private investment bankers Hildebrandt and Ferrar, said in an interview. "It's a like a slow turning ship and while a nice run through the [World Cup] tournament would have probably been a good thing, it's hard to imagine the loss having more than a brief impact."

Noriega said Hildebrandt and Ferrar did a study in 2006 to determine the economic impact of Italy's World Cup victory that year and the results were telling: there was a flurry of economic activity for a few days after the final win -- Italians spending money in restaurants and bars celebrating, buying souvenirs, spending a little more when it came to every day purchases, and so on. But over time it more or less averaged out.

"Though the economic activity after the final was measurable, at the end of the year it probably added adidas pure boost x for sale , at most, a tenth of 1 percent to the year-end 2.2 percent growth figure compared to the previous year," Noriega said.

The medium-term impact of the early exit in this tournament will almost surely be smaller, according to Noriega.

"Sure, maybe people stay home more or spend less for the next two or three days," he said. "But then a few days after that they'll realize they have a little more pocket money than they would have had otherwise and they'll go out and spend it. Economically speaking, people have short memories for this kind of thing."

Guard of Honor adidas pure boost for sale , comprising Grenadier Guards, the Queen's Color and Army musicians, process out of Buckingham Palace after taking part in a full rehearsal early in the morning on Friday in preparation for President Xi Jingping's state visit to the UK next week. [PhotoCFP] Members of the Grenadier Guards conduct a full dress rehearsal for the guard of honor early in the morning on Friday. [Photochinadaily] The regimental band walks out of the gates of Buckingham Palace during a full dress rehearsal. [Photochinadaily] The Grenadier Guards wear their full ceremonial uniforms, including extravagant helmets. [Photochinadaily] This carriage, which will carry President Xi Jinping and the Queen to Buckingham Palace, is pulled during the rehearsal early in the morning on Oct 17, 2015. [Photochinanews]

President Xi Jingping's visit will start on Tuesday adidas nmd xr4 for sale , when the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall will escort him from the Mandarin Oriental Hotel to Horse Guards Parade in London. The Queen will host a state banquet for Xi and his wife Peng Liyuan.

BEIJING, Sept. 7 (Xinhua) -- Administrators of online groups in China should manage their groups properly, the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) said Thursday.

According to a new regulation on online groups released by the CAC on Thursday, group administrators should regulate the conduct of their group members and the information posted in groups in accordance with the law, user agreements and conventions.

Providers of information services should fulfill their responsibility to manage online information, and should have professional and technical capability conforming to the scale of their services, the regulations read.

Service providers should verify the real identities of group members adidas nmd xr1 for sale , and set up a credibility rating system, while taking measures to protect users' personal information.

While online groups have made people's work and lives easier, some service providers and administrators have failed to fulfill their duties, allowing obscenity, violence, fraud, etc. to spread adidas nmd r2 for sale , the CAC said.

On Tuesday, a man from east China's Anhui Province was given a 5-day administrative detention for using abusive language toward the local police in a group on WeChat, China's most popular instant messaging app.

According to another CAC regulation also released Thursday, service providers of social media accounts releasing contents to the public, such as those on WeChat and twitter-like Weibo, as well as question-and-answer forums inc.