A gauge of growth in the dominant U.S. services sector fell short of expectations for December, hitting a six-month low as indexes on employment, orders and business activity all declined. The FTSE 100 index was down 0.4 percent at 1209 ...
Tags: services sector, GDP growth
The upturn in the eurozone private sector economy gained momentum in December. Although the recovery remained modest and fragile overall, growth of output was nonetheless recorded throughout the second half of 2013. At a three-month high ...
The National Retail Federation issued the following statements from President and CEO Matthew Shay and Chief Economist Jack Kleinhenz on the July employment numbers. NRF pegged retail job gains at 37,000 in July, with increases in general ...
Tags: Retail Industry, Apparel
More than $224 million has been injected into Iraq’s private sector economy in the form of Small & Medium Enterprise bank loans thanks to a cooperative effort between the USAID-Tijara Provincial Economic Growth Program and 12 private ...
Tags: Iraq, private sector economy, commercial banks, finance
The American Association of Industrial Design has estimated: for every $1 invested in industrial design, you can regain of $1,500 back. With "ingenuity" to successful "manufacturing", industrial design has become a “second core ...
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