WSJ By The Numbers - Top 10 for Oct.21
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GM, Vehicle Sales Slide 3%: GM vehicle sales fell 3% in the third
quarter, as it sold 2.3 million vehicles world-wide in the period. However
GM's U.S. market share, which fell below 24% in the first quarter of the
year, recovered to 25.1% in the three months ended in September.
GM sales in China, where it become the market leader earlier in 2006, gained 37% in the third quarter. Sales to Russia and India surged 64% and 18%, respectively. GM's U.S. market leader with 24.7% share for the first nine months of 2006 on an 11.3% decline in sales, according to Autodata.
| Bank of America Uses Retail Tactics To Raid Manhattan: Two years ago, Bank of America had no branches in Manhattan. Now it has 41, the fifth-largest network and the bank's Manhattan deposits have grown to about $19 billion from less than $400,000 in 2001, according to FDIC. J.P. Morgan Chase's Chase, is New York's retail banking leader and has 39% of the Manhattan market, $187 billion in deposits and 128 branches. | $400B Manhattan Retail Banking |
| Libraries Beckon, But Stacks of Books Aren't Part of Pitch: Ten years ago, Yale University spent $300,000 to access 10 electronic databases, according the university librarian. In its most recent fiscal year, Yale spent $5 million on 900 separate electronic databases. | $5M Library e-databases |
| Fox Hopes World Series Spins Enough Ratings Drama: Fox's average audience for the league championships sank 9% below those of last season, to 9.5 million from 10.4 million viewers, according to Nielsen Media Research data. | 9.5M MLB TV Viewers |
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The United States: 300 Million and Growing:Today foreign-born people make up 12% of the U.S. population. By 2050 the world population is expected to increase to 9.1 billion from 6.5 billion today. An estimated 106 billion people have lived on planet Earth, according to the Population Reference Bureau. The current population is about 6.5 billion. That means about 6.1% of all people ever born are alive today. |
9.1B Population by 2050 |
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The United States: 300 Million and Growing: Today about 50% of the U.S. population live in suburbs or "exurbs" of metropolitan areas, up from 38% in 1970, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. At the same time, the percentage of the total population living in cities remained unchanged at 30%. That means more commuting, and highways. There are 2.5 million miles of paved roads in the U.S., up from 1.2 million in 1960, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. |
2.5M Miles of Roads in U.S. |
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