In 2012, 15.2 million foreign citizens worked in the EU27, accounting for 7% of total employment. Among these foreign citizens, 6.6 million were citizens of another EU Member State and 8.6 million were citizens of a country outside the EU. ...
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After their expectations reached a 24-year low in the previous quarter, businesses are indicating that price rises are on the agenda in the new financial year as they seek to retain profits while compensating for cost pressures and low ...
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The oil complex pushed sharply lower late in US trade Friday, extending an overnight selloff prompted by a stronger dollar, lower equities markets and OPEC's decision to roll over its 30 million b/d output target following Friday's meeting ...
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With his H-1B fight over and lost to the tech industry, Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) lashed out in the minutes before the Senate Judiciary Committee's final vote on the controversial immigration bill late last month. It was late in the ...
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Regional unemployment rates varied widely across the 270 NUTS 2 regions of the EU27 in 2012, with the lowest rates recorded in the regions of Salzburg and Tirol (both 2.5%) in Austria and Tübingen, Oberbayern and Trier (all 2.7%) in ...
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With the H-1B fight over and lost, Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) lashed out, almost flailing in the minutes before the Senate Judiciary Committee's final vote Tuesday. The tech industry had won. It was getting late in the day and the ...
Tags: Stinky Onion, Computer Products, H-1B
In March this year, the unemployment rate of the 34 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) member countries decreased to eight percent, compared to the 8.1 percent recorded in the previous month, according to new ...
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According to a report released by the UK's Office for National Statistics (ONS), the UK economy grew by 0.3 percent during the first quarter of 2013, following a contraction of 0.3 percent in the final quarter of 2012, both compared to the ...
While retail sales were up in April, the growth rate was less than impressive based on data released today by the United States Department of Commerce and the National Retail Federation (NRF). Commerce reported that April retail sales at ...
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THE sharemarket has closed flat, held back by weakness among the major banks and expectations of a pause on interest rate cuts following the release of encouraging jobs figures. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 1.4 points, or 0.03 ...
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The dollar has bounced back from losses made after the central bank's surprise interest rate cut, thanks partly to some positive Chinese trade figures. At 5pm AEST, the local unit was trading at $US1.0201, up from $US1.019 yesterday. ...
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Australian businesses will keep cutting their spending this year, with expectations for capital investment, employment and new credit set to fall further. The deteriorating outlook for the September quarter suggests that despite pockets ...
According to the survey published last Wedsday, global consumer confidence raised in Q1, especialy the U.S, Japan and northern Europe. Nielsen's survey showed that Indonesia has become the most optimistic consumers market in the world, ...
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On the back end of an earnings season that by many accounts could have been worse, tech investors appeared to be in the mood to celebrate on Friday, sending shares of IT companies higher as key stock-market indexes hit milestone highs. ...
Tags: Tech Stocks, Market Indexes
The dollar is still higher after getting a boost from better US employment figures, increasing optimism about the America's economic recovery. At 5pm AEST, the local unit was trading at $US1.0272, up from $US1.0254 on Friday. The Aussie ...
Tags: US Unemployment Rate, Service