Description of chart 2 – Quarterly change in operating profits

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The title of the graph is "Quarterly change in operating profits."
This is a column clustered chart.
There are in total 21 categories in the horizontal axis. The vertical axis starts at -30 and ends at 15 with ticks every 5 points.
There are 1 series in this graph.
The vertical axis is "% change."
The units of the horizontal axis are quarters by year from fourth quarter 2007 to fourth quarter 2012.
The title of series 1 is "Quarterly change in operating profits."
The minimum value is -24 occurring in fourth quarter 2008.
The maximum value is 13.5 occurring in first quarter 2010.

Quarterly change in operating profits
  % change
fourth quarter 2007 0.5
first quarter 2008 -1.0
second quarter 2008 11.4
third quarter 2008 2.7
fourth quarter 2008 -24.0
first quarter 2009 -17.6
second quarter 2009 -6.4
third quarter 2009 12.2
fourth quarter 2009 13.0
first quarter 2010 13.5
second quarter 2010 -4.0
third quarter 2010 0.6
fourth quarter 2010 8.5
first quarter 2011 3.7
second quarter 2011 0.3
third quarter 2011 -1.1
fourth quarter 2011 4.8
first quarter 2012 1.2
second quarter 2012 -7.3
third quarter 2012 3.9
fourth quarter 2012 1.4