The Institute for Supply Management (ISM) reported today that non-manufacturing sector economic activity showed growth for the 36th consecutive month. In its monthly Non-Manufacturing Report on Business, the ISM reported that the index it ...
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US stocks ended the first week of the new year with a bang,with the S&P 500 notching a five-year high and the Dow securing its biggest weekly gain since December 2011. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 43.85 points,or 0.3 per cent,to ...
Manufacturing output showed growth in December for the third time in the last seven months, according to today’s December Manufacturing Report on Business from the Institute for Supply Management (ISM). The PMI, the index used by ...
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In 2011, the Gross Domestic Product per capita in Luxembourg1, expressed in purchasing power standards2 (PPS), was more than two and a half times the EU27 average. The Netherlands, Ireland, Austria, Sweden, Denmark and Germany were between ...
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Manufacturing employment has been a job bright spot for the economy, but IT workers aren't benefiting from it, a new report finds. In the manufacturing sector, research firm Computer Economics found that about half of the manufacturers in ...
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Julie Corbett, founder/CEO of Ecologic Brands, created a stir when she introduced the eco.bottle in 2008. Made of a molded-fiber outer shell with an inner pouch, the package scores multiple sustainability wins: source reduction, recycled ...
Computerworld - Manufacturing employment has been a bright spot for the economy, but IT workers aren't benefiting, a new report finds. Research firm Computer Economics found in its latest study that more than half of all manufacturers are ...
Tags: IT workers, Computer Economics, IT Spending, Alan Krueger
Reuters reported that energy over metals, raw over refined, sums up the likely theme for China's commodity demand next year. Commodity markets had become accustomed to China as a voracious consumer of resources, but 2012 showed that ...
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One month does not make a trend, but IT employment dipped last month after a long stretch of gains. Analysts can only speculate as to the reasons for the decline. It may be an indication of market volatility, a short pause in hiring, or ...
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AUSTRALIAN stocks are expected to start the last full trading week before Christmas on a cautious note amid ongoing negotiations over the looming US budget deadline. Futures trading was pointing to a weak start on the local market today, ...
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BS reported that 8 years ago, Ms Kada Majhi, a tribal woman of Kinari, a village in the Kalahandi district of Odisha eked out a living with paltry wages as a daily laborer. When Vedanta Aluminium started constructing a 1 million tonne per ...
Retail sales in November, which are typically viewed as the beginning of the holiday shopping season, showed a solid performance with annual and sequential gains, according to data released today by the United States Department of Commerce ...
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The Gulf Cooperation Council region is estimated to have already invested around AED 17.3 billion into aluminium projects with member states collectively producing around 3.6 million tonnes of the commodity a year to account for almost 10% ...
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Reuters reported that London copper was steady and was set to close the week little changed as traders focused on the progress in US talks to avert a looming fiscal crisis while also waiting for a crucial jobs report from the world's ...
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BS reported that copper maker Sterlite Industries (India) rose 5.37% to INR 112.80. The stock topped the gainers in the BSE's A group. Metal shares were in demand as copper prices in London and Shanghai hit their highest in almost seven ...
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