Campbell Soup Company today reported its results for the first quarter of fiscal 2014. Denise Morrison, Campbell's President and Chief Executive Officer, said, "I'm disappointed in Campbell's first-quarter performance. We are confident in ...
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The majority of homes in metropolitan areas in the third quarter experienced robust year-over-year price gains, with the national median price showing the strongest annual growth in nearly eight years, according to the latest quarterly ...
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Company profit expectations have reached their highest level since 2003, with Australian businesses anticipating a jump in takings in the New Year on the back of stronger sales and firming selling prices. Continuing initial positive ...
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Farm equipment manufacturers report strong sales heading into the fourth quarter of 2013. According to the Association of Equipment Manufacturers' latest report (issued in August), U.S. unit retail sales showed double-digit growth in most ...
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Financial stress in Australia has stabilised near a two-year low as a combination of post-election confidence, low interest rates and increased savings help to bolster consumer demand for credit and their capacity to repay. The financial ...
People's Bank of China in a closed-door meeting last week sought to reassure money-market traders that a short-term spike in interest rates would not necessarily translate into a tightening of liquidity, Reuters reported. The PBOC also ...
Reacting to the Second Quarter Review of Monetary Policy Statement 2013-14, Dr A Sakthivel, Chairman AEPC, stated that, “The synergistic efforts of all the stakeholders including Govt. has resulted in the average export growth of ...
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The German economy is on the verge of an upturn driven by domestic demand. The improving global economic climate and decreasing uncertainty are fuelling investment. Private consumption is benefitting from favourable employment and income ...
Given that European households have deposits worth an impressive EUR 8.5 trillion, deposits are one of the cornerstones of the EU economic system. This represents one-third of total financial assets. Despite negative real returns in most EU ...
Tags: Deposits Business, European Banks
Rising domestic demand provides firm basis for expansion in the industrial sector British bank HSBC Holdings Plc said that China's manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index will rise to a seven-month high of 50.9 in October, up from 50.2 ...
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After hitting the highest level in nearly four years, existing-home sales declined in September, but limited inventory conditions continued to pressure home prices in much of the country, according to the National Association of Realtors. ...
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Despite all the negativity on the news, and the uncertainty involving the US debt ceiling, most trends are pointing to a steadily growing economy that bodes well for trucking's future. That was the synopsis from leading economists and ...
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Freight volumes are higher than they've been in "many, many" years, but there remains excess capacity in the marketplace and continued downward pressure on rates. Doug Munro, president of Maritime-Ontario Freight Lines, told a packed ...
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Bangladesh’s central bank, Bangladesh Bank, has announced creation of a Tk 1 billion refinance fund for the country’s jute sector. Addressing a press conference, Bangladesh Bank’s deputy governor SK Sur Chowdhury ...
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"What's the one thing that you need to be really, really worried about over the next two weeks," Eric Starks, president of FTR Associates, asked attendees at the 27th Annual Conference on Transportation Innovation and Technology yesterday. ...
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