A
compendium of revealing stats and the key leading economic indicators and
business metrics based on today's Wall Street Journal article and
reports:
Is
the U.S. Losing Ground?: In 2000, 90% of the capital raised by foreign
companies through new stock offerings were raised in the U.S. The
"90% rule" reversed in 2005 as 90% of the funds raised by
foreign firms through new listings occurred in Europe and other non-U.S.
markets. Last year, only 2 of the world's 25 largest initial public
offerings listed in the U.S.
In the universe of global
IPOs, the fraction of non-U.S. IPOs listed in the U.S. has fallen to under
10% so far in 2006 from 37% in 2000.
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The market for mobile communities and user generated content will be
worth US$13.1 billion by 2011, with photo and chat based services being
the top revenue generators, 
Seven
percent of internet users, or about 10 million American adults, searched
for information on at least one health topic on a typical day in August
2006. This places health searches at about the same level of popularity on
a typical day as paying bills online, reading blogs, or using the internet
to look up a phone number or address, 
From
browsing to buying, the Internet will play a larger role than ever in
holiday shopping this year as almost 88.7%of consumers regularly or
occasionally examine products on the Internet before buying in a store, 
For the six-month period ending September 30,
2006, the average daily circulation for all 770 newspapers reporting for
comparable periods decreased 2.8% to 43.7 million, over the same period a year
ago, 
Real
disposable personal income, the amount available for spending or saving,
increased 0.8% in September compared to an increase of 0.2% in August.
Real consumer spending increased 0.4% in September compared to a
decreasing 0.1% in August, 
More than $3 billion will be spent over the next four
years to build and operate public wireless networks for U.S.
municipalities, 
US
online retail sales this holiday season will increase 23% over last year
to reach $27 billion, 
The
majority of e-mail marketers are failing to use e-mail as a relevant
marketing tool, at the same time that consumers are spending less time and
attention on e-mail, according to Jupiter Research VP and research
director David Daniels, 
From
costumes to candy, consumers are expected to 
