Retail sales data for the month of June from the United States Department of Commerce and the National Retail Federation (NRF) showed relatively positive traction on the consumer spending front despite tailing off at the end of the second ...
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The number of electrical engineers in the workforce has declined over the last decade. It's not a steady decline, and it moves up and down, but the overall trend is not positive. In 2002 the U.S. had 385,000 employed electrical engineers; ...
AUSTRALIAN stocks shot up by 1.3 per cent, with investors cheering comments out of the US that money would continue to be pumped into the world's largest economy. Shares in Australia soared on US Fed chairman Ben Bernanke's comments that ...
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Hiring of technology professionals has been on the upswing in the first half of this year, with new IT hires accounting for about 10% of all the job growth in the U.S. in June, according to two independent assessments. Total tech ...
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NYMEX August crude settled $1.43 higher at $97.99/barrel Monday on Middle East tensions and as better-than-expected manufacturing data from Europe helped boost US equities. NYMEX's rise outpaced ICE August Brent's 84-cent gain to $103/b, ...
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World GDP growth stabilized during the first quarter of 2013 at a moderate rate. In particular, in the advanced economies the situation improved with financial stress being further reduced and stock prices rising. The acceleration of ...
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The Australian dollar continued to fall today, sparking the biggest one-day sell-off in government bonds since the turmoil in global markets that followed the collapse of US investment bank Lehman Brothers in late 2008. Bond traders said ...
Technology has changed everything we know about the office. Now it is threatening to get rid of the office as we know it. A series of surveys undertaken by Intelligent Office, a virtual office space provider, show just how profound this ...
The Aussie slumped to a fresh 33-month low today as the US central bank signalled plans to rein in its stimulus program before the end of the year and China's economy showed more signs of a slowdown. At 5pm AEST, the Aussie was trading at ...
Retail sales showed positive momentum to varying degrees in May, according to data released today by the United States Department of Commerce and the National Retail Federation (NRF). Commerce reported that May retail sales at $421.1 ...
Turkey, situated at the crossroads of Asia and Europe, provides good opportunity for Galician companies, including textile firms. This was one of the conclusions drawn at the conference on “Turkey: A Good Opportunity for the Galician ...
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The Australian dollar has closed firmer following an upbeat consumer sentiment reading and renewed pressure on the greenback. At 5pm today, the currency touched 94.63 US cents, up from 94.02 cents yesterday. Twenty minutes after ...
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The Eurozone manufacturing downturn eased for the first time in four months in May. Moreover, all sub indices from the latest survey improved on the earlier flash estimates except suppliers’ delivery times. At a 15-month high of ...
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US stocks opened higher after government data said the US economy added 175,000 jobs in May. Ten minutes into trade, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 49.87 points, or 0.33 per cent, to 15,090.49 The broad-based S&P 500 put on ...
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Marks & Spencer (M&S) today publishes its latest Plan A Report which shows progress against the programme’s 180 sustainability commitments, including its stretching 2015 targets. 139 of the 180 commitments have been achieved ...
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