Sales over the Thanksgiving weekend dropped for the first time since 2009, which showed that shoppers have to do some careful shopping due to instability of economic recovery. The National Retail Federation said on Sunday that it expected ...
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Declining investment in China' power grid last month could signal declining copper demand in the coming months, analysts with UK bank giant Barclays said Tuesday. Grid investment total Yuan 31 billion ($5.08 billion) in September, a 15% ...
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This Halloween there will be plenty of pumpkins, princesses, zombies and witches around town. According to the National Retail Federation’s 2013 Top Costumes Survey, adults and children will look to traditional favorites for their ...
The rising cost of petrol helped to push up debit and credit card spending in New Zealand's retail trades by 0.4 percent last month, the government statistics agency announced Friday. Spending on fuel, which was up by 39 million NZ ...
Families in Brazil spent US$ 102 billion on textile and apparel products in the year 2012, according to a survey conducted by the Brazilian Association of Textile Retail (ABVTEX) through the Fundação Getúlio Vargas ...
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Global growth in IT spending is slowing, according to analyst group Gartner, which forecasts that total spending in 2013 will amount to $3.7 trillion, an increase of just two per cent on the $3.6 trillion that it believes was spent ...
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Total capital spending in 2012 for the top 100 US producers, including acquisitions, rose 18% year over year to the highest level on record at $316.6 billion, driven by development capital spending of a combined $208 billion, according to a ...
Wood Mackenzie expects resource sector investment in Australia to peak in 2013 at A$85 billion ($82.6 billion), dominated by spending in gas, followed by iron ore and coal, and to remain at high levels for the next three years, according to ...
Think video streaming, from services such as Amazon and Netflix, is killing physical discs? Not quite yet, according to the Digital Entertainment Group (DEG), which reports that Blu-ray sales were 28.5 percent higher in the first quarter of ...
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TXT e-solutions, a leading international provider of integrated and collaborative planning solutions, announces ‘TXT on Cloud’: its flagship products, TXTPlanning and TXTPLM, are now available for deployment on the Microsoft ...
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The global market for business intelligence (BI) software will hit $13.8 billion in 2013, but the pace of growth will be slower than in past years, according to new figures from analyst firm Gartner. This year, BI market spending will ...
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A new report from Gartner states that worldwide IT spending is set to total $3.7 trillion in 2013, marking a 4.2% increase over 2012. “Uncertainties surrounding prospects for an upturn in global economic growth are the major ...
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Raises its overall projection, but lowers estimate for devices including tablets Worldwide IT spending is projected to total $3.7 trillion in 2013, a 4.2% increase from 2012 spending of $3.6 trillion, according to the latest forecast by ...
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Government plans for next generation shared services in the public sector will save taxpayers up to pound 500m a year, the Cabinet Office has claimed. In a new document dubbed the Next Generation Shared Services Strategic Plan, the ...
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Transport chiefs in South Yorkshire have completed a new energy-saving scheme to replace the bus shelter lighting systems with much more efficient LED ceiling spotlights in Rotherham. The move has seen lights replaced in over 2,000 ...
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