Australia's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate remained steady at 5.7 per cent in July, as announced by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) today. The ABS reported the number of people employed decreased by 10,200 to 11,653,200 ...
Tags: Service, Unemployment Rate
A total of 247 metropolitan areas across 49 states and the District of Columbia qualified for inclusion on the National Association of Home Builders/First American Improving Markets Index (IMI) for August, released recently. While this is ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
Argentina’s Global Compact Network (pactoglobal) and Sustainable Textile Center has launched the ‘Code of Conduct and Handbook of Textile and Fashion’. Miguel Angel Gardetti, the Director of Sustainable Textile ...
Tags: Textile Sector
WESTEC, the leading West Coast manufacturing event, returns to California amidst an encouraging environment that has seen a measurable increase in exports, production, overall employment growth, and recent legislation designed to enhanced ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
Business confidence levels are showing signs of stabilising, with the year-end outlook for profits, sales, employment and capital investment beginning to level out. After declining through much of the year, initial expectations for the ...
The HSBC purchasing managers' index (PMI) for China declined to 47.7 in July from 48.2 in June, declining for a third straight month to its lowest reading since August 2012.A reading below 50 indicates a contraction of activity while one ...
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The clothing industry in Bangladesh needs to improve its image in order for the country’s long-term prosperity to be guaranteed, says global business information company Textiles Intelligence. The collapse of Rana Plaza in Dhaka, ...
Tags: Bangla Clothing, clothing industry
A delegation of the Belgian textile machinery industry will meet key decision makers of the Uzbek Textile Industry during a technical seminar and mini fair in the Hotel Intercontinental in Tashkent on September 12. Belgian companies ...
The Institute for Supply Management (ISM) reported today that non-manufacturing activity in July had a very solid month. In its Non-Manufacturing Report on Business, the ISM reported that its index used to measure growth—the ...
Tags: Non-Manufacturing
With slower than expected activity in the nonresidential construction sector in the first half of the year, the projections for growth in spending have been scaled back. Led by the hotel and retail project categories, the commercial sector ...
Oil prices advanced on Wednesday after a report showed that U.S. economic growth was higher than expected in the second quarter of the year. The U.S. real gross domestic product (GDP) increased at an annual rate of 1.7 percent in the ...
Tags: Oil Prices, Economic Data
With slower than expected activity in the nonresidential construction sector in the first half of the year, the projections for growth in spending have been scaled back. Led by the hotel and retail project categories, the commercial sector ...
Tags: Building Activity
China's purchasing managers' index (PMI) for its domestic manufacturing sector was at 50.3 percent in July this year, up 0.2 percentage points compared to June, according to the figures released by China's National Bureau of Statistics ...
Tags: Manufacturing Sector, Mineral
The Institute for Supply Management (ISM) reported Thursday that economic activity in the manufacturing sector expanded in July for the second consecutive month, and the overall economy grew for the 50th consecutive month. The Purchasing ...
Tags: Manufacturing Activity
Furniture factory orders in May were 6% ahead of May 2012, but were up just 4% for the first five months of the year, according to the latest survey from the accounting and consulting firm Smith Leonard. The survey also showed that May ...
Tags: Furniture, Furnishing