The European Economic Advisory Group at CESifo (EEAG)* has released its twelfth Report on the European Economy today in Brussels. The international group of scholars expects world GDP to grow by 3.3 percent this year, up from 3.0 percent in ...
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As part of Richard Martin Lighting (RML) new initiative as LAMDA's principle lighting partner, the company opened its doors to their first year students to host the annual LED Play Days. "It's a great chance to show these prospective ...
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Shares in Commonwealth Bank soared above $70 to a new record yesterday as the local stocks hit a 4 1/2-year high after encouraging US non-farm payrolls data suggested the world's biggest economy was recovering. Strength in defensive and ...
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New Zealand took the top spot, followed by Norway and Sweden Canada is the fourth-best country in the world to be a working woman, according to The Economist’s glass-ceiling index release. Using data from the Organization for ...
Statistics released by Beijing painted a picture of rising inflation and slowing domestic growth, prompting worries that China's demand for Australian exports would weaken. At 4.47pm AEDT, the Aussie fetched $US1.0224 compared with ...
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The Cotton textile exports are expected to gain double digit growth this financial year. Our last year’s exports were US$ 8.42 billion and it is expected to be US $ 9.56 billion for the current financial year. The textile industry ...
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ICANN’s CEO and President, Fadi Chehadé, was at the group’s Multistakeholder Internet Governance meeting in Africa this week with the message that it is a new season at ICANN and Africa has a big role to play. ICANN ...
Specialty metal and chemical product producer 5N Plus Inc of Montreal, Quebec, Canada has decided to close its indium antimonide (InSb) manufacturing operations in Trail, British Columbia over the next few months, laying off the 75 staff ...
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General Motors is hiring 1,000 IT staff for a center in a suburb of Phoenix, as part of its strategy to move more high-value IT work in-house. The new center will join three others it has set up in Austin, Texas; Roswell, Ga., and Warren, ...
Gov. Bobby Jindal, South Louisiana Methanol CEO Barry Williamson and Todd Corp. Group CEO Jon Young announced that South Louisiana Methanol LP will invest $1.3 billion in a new methanol production facility on the banks of the Mississippi ...
Genesco Inc. reported earnings from continuing operations for the 14-week period ended February 2, 2013, of $38.7 million, or $1.63 per diluted share, compared to earnings from continuing operations of $41.5 million, or $1.72 per diluted ...
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Stocks ended 0.3 per cent stronger yesterday, leaving the market hovering near record highs and sustaining hopes of a prolonged recovery, buoyed by further healing in the US economy and signs of a soft landing in China. Investor resolve ...
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The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 closed down 0.2 per cent at 5109.2 after hitting a 4 1/2-year high of 5135.7 in early trading. Share trading value worth $5.2 billion slipped just below the 20-day moving average of $5.3bn. Asian markets were ...
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Epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff, Wales, UK says that CEO & president Dr Drew Nelson has joined a high-level industry group to advise the European Commission (EC) on the implementation of key enabling technologies ...
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The National Retail Federation this week welcomed introduction of House and Senate legislation that would repeal the employer mandate provision of the health care reform law scheduled to take effect next year. “Eliminating the ...
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