The textile and clothing sector in Tunisia has recorded a slight improvement in October 2013, according to the latest data released by the Centre Technique du Textile (CETTEX). The data showed that Tunisia’s balance of trade in ...
Tags: Apparel Sector, Textile
Senator Chris Coons announces Manufacturing Jobs for America initiative. A new congressional report released Dec. 17, 2013, found that after a decade of devastating declines, the American manufacturing sector is recovering—and now ...
Economic growth in the United States will continue in 2014, say the nation's purchasing and supply management executives in their December 2013 Semiannual Economic Forecast. Expectations are for a continuation of the economic recovery that ...
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From noodle bars to housekeeping services, personal spending is spreading cheer to the nooks and crannies of the Japanese economy. The Bank of Japan's December Tankan survey of business sentiment showed a major improvement in confidence ...
Tags: Japan, personal spending, Japanese economy, Japan's economic recoveries
China's industrial output and investment growth cooled in November while retail sales unexpectedly picked up, presenting a mixed growth picture. The output from industrial enterprises with annual sales of more than 20 million yuan ($3.29 ...
Tags: economy, industrial output, Retail sales
After several rounds of meeting with the relevant stakeholders, the Supreme Council for Wages (CSS) has fixed the minimum wage for Category C employees, which include those working in the apparel export sector, at 225 gourdes (about US$ ...
The North American chemical market is in the midst of a major regulatory shift. On Dec. 1, 2013, this transition has impacted more than 43 million employees in the United States, including chemical manufacturers, distributors, exporters and ...
In October this year, the seasonally and working-day adjusted turnover in the German manufacturing industry decreased by 0.2 percent compared to the previous month, according to the preliminary data reported by Germany's Federal Statistical ...
Tags: metal, manufacturing
In October this year, India's industrial production decreased 1.8 percent year on year, according to government data released on December 12. Industrial production in the April-October period this year remained unchanged year on year. ...
Tags: India, Industrial Production
In the January-November period of the current year, China's total fixed asset investments (excluding rural households) amounted to RMB 39.1283 trillion ($6.41 trillion), up 19.9 percent year on year, with this growth rate down 0.2 ...
Tags: Asset Investments, Metallurgy
German industrial output fell for a second consecutive month in October, sending a sign of weak recovery from Europe's largest economy, official data showed on Monday. In calendar and seasonally-adjusted terms, industrial output dropped ...
The Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK) has announced that Turkey's gross domestic product (GDP) in the third quarter of the current year grew by 10 percent to TRY 414.46 billion ($204.45 billion) in current prices and by 4.4 percent in ...
In November this year, China's overall value-added industrial output increased by 0.76 percent month on month and by 10.0 percent year on year, with the year-on-year growth rate in question down 0.3 percentage points compared to that ...
Tags: output, industrial sectors
The production of textile industry in Spain registered an increase of 2.4 percent year-on-year, for the month of October, 2013, as per the latest Industrial Production Index (IPI) data released by the National Statistics Institute (INE). ...
Tags: Textile Industry, garments sector
November had the lowest number of unemployed people in the U.S. since five years ago, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics' monthly employment report. The unemployment rate for November was at 7 percent, lower than the 7.3 percent ...
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