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The
Conference Board Help-Wanted
Advertising Index — a key measure of job offerings in major
newspapers across America — increased one point in October. The Index
currently stands at 30, compared to 37 one year ago.
Continue reading... "Help-Wanted Advertising Index Increases; Online Job Ads up 6%" »
Continue reading... "Chicago PMI Drops to Lowest Level Since 2003" »
Microsoft,
launching Windows
Vista for businesses, predicts over 200 million users for new Windows,
Office or PC server software by the end of 2007. “Industry
analysts expect these products to represent more than $250 billion in
partner revenue opportunity in the next 12 months,” Steve Ballmer
said.
Continue reading... "$250 billion Opportunity with Microsoft Vista" »
| Indian GDP at Constant Prices | Y/Y % Chg. (2006-07) | |
|
Sector |
Q1 | Q2 |
| Trade, hotels, transport and communication | 13.2 | 13.9 |
| Manufacturing | 11.3 | 11.9 |
| Construction | 9.5 | 9.8 |
| Financing, ins., real est. and business services | 8.9 | 9.5 |
| Electricity, gas and water supply | 5.4 | 7.7 |
| Community, social and personal services | 7.4 | 6.9 |
| mining and quarrying | 3.4 | 3.1 |
| Agriculture, forestry and fishing | 3.4 | 1.7 |
| Overall GDP Growth | 8.9 | 9.2 |
Mutual-fund
assets surpassed $10 trillion for the first time in October, according
the fund industry's trade group, the Investment Company Institute.
Mutual-fund assets increased from September by $286.6 billion, or 2.9%, to
$10.01 trillion in October, the ICI said. Much of the recent growth has
come in stock-fund assets, which rose to about $5.7 trillion in October
from $4.9 trillion from the end of 2005, according to the survey. >>
Mutual
Funds Pass $10 Trillion Mark
Continue reading... "WSJ By The Numbers - Top 10 for Nov.30: Mutual Funds Top $10 trillion" »
The
Commerce Department reported
that consumer spending increased by 0.2% in October, the best showing in 3
months. Spending had fallen by 0.2% in September and posted only a slight
0.1% rise in August. The acceleration in real consumer spending reflected
an upturn in spending on nondurable goods, notably food items.
As
the war for talent has grown acute in this age of globalization, human
resources tasks such as managing payroll and benefits have evolved into
much more strategic, and more companies are deploying software for human
capital management for a competitive edge (reports
IBD). The HCM software market is
forecast to top $6 billion in sales this year, according to AMR.
Continue reading... "War for Talent Boosts HCM Software to Top $6 billion" »
On
this Cyber Monday, which marks the first major spike in online holiday
spending as people returned to work after the Thanksgiving weekend, online
sales totaled $608 million, up 26% from last year, according
to comScore Netwroks. During the first 27 days of November this year,
total online retail spending reached $9.48 billion, marking a 24% increase
versus the corresponding days in 2005.
Continue reading... "Cyber Monday Creates E-Commerce History: Sales Break $600 million Mark" »
Is
the online world as important to users as the real world? The
2007 Digital Future Project found that 43% of Internet users who are
members of online communities say that they “feel as strongly” about
their virtual community as they do about their real-world communities, according
to the sixth annual survey of the impact of the Internet conducted by the
USC-Annenberg School Center
for the Digital Future..
Continue reading... "Is the online world as important to users as the real world? 43% Say Yes!" »
A
recent ICOM
survey asked its members worldwide whether any traditional media
choices were on the decline with no chance of recovery as a result of new
ways of reaching audiences and, if so, which ones: Almost half (42%) named
newspapers, followed by radio and television (20% each), magazines (18%),
cinema (16%) and outdoor (6%).
Continue reading... "Top 10 Fastest Growing New Media According to Marketers Worldwide, ICOM" »
Sales
of new homes in October 2006 fell 3.2% to a seasonally adjusted annual
rate of 1,004,000, according
to estimates by the U.S. Census Bureau This is 25.4% below the
October 2005 estimate of 1,346,000.
The median sales price of new houses sold in October 2006 was $248,500, up 1.9% from the same month a year ago; the average sales price was $309,700.
Continue reading... "New Homes Sales Drop 3.2% in October; Prices Rise Y/Y" »
$24.8
billion in gift cards: The National Retail Federation survey predicts that total gift-card sales this holiday
season would reach $24.81 billion, up from $18.48 billion in 2005.
Consumer Reports survey last month reports that gift
cards would be the second-most-popular holiday gift in 2006, after
clothing. The study also found that more than 23 million Americans have
unused gift cards from last year's holidays valued at more than $972
million.>> Reading
Gift Cards' Fine Print
Continue reading... "WSJ By The Numbers - Top 10 for Nov.29" »
The
U.S. economy grew at an annual rate of 2.2% in the third quarter, compared
with 2.6% in the second quarter, according to the "preliminary"
estimates released
by the Bureau of Economic Analysis. The third-quarter growth rate was
revised up 0.6 percentage point from the "advance" estimates
released in October.
Continue reading... "GDP Growth Revised Up to 2.2% in 3Q 2006; Corporate Profits Jump 30.9%" »
Counterfeiting
has exploded into a $600-billion-a-year problem, growing over 10,000
percent in the past 20 years, according
to The International AntiCounterfeiting Coaltio. The International Chamber
of Commerce estimates that 7% of the world trade is in counterfeit goods
and that the counterfeit market is worth $ 350 billion.
Continue reading... "Fakes by the Numbers: Counterfeiting Exploded Into a $600 billion Problem" »
Within
the next 25 years, AIDS is set to join heart disease and stroke as the top
three causes of death worldwide, according to a new report in the Public
Library of Science's Medicine journal. AIDS is currently ranked fourth
behind heart disease, stroke, and respiratory infections.
Postini,
a provider of on-demand Integrated Message Management services making
electronic communications like email, instant messaging (IM) and the web
more compliant, productive, secure and reliable. processed nearly 70
billion email connections from September to November,
Continue reading... "Spam Skyrockets 59% September to November; 91% of All Email is Now Spam" »
New
orders for manufactured durable goods in October decreased $19.0 billion
or 8.3% to $210 billion, according
to the U.S. Census Bureau. This is the largest drop in more than six years.
This followed two consecutive monthly increases, including an 8.7%
September increase.
Continue reading... "Durable Goods Drop Most in 6 Years; Consumer Confidence Fell" »
Total existing-home sales
rose a modest 0.5% in October to a seasonally adjusted annual rate1 of 6.24 million units from an upwardly revised pace of 6.21 million in September, but were 11.5% below the 7.05 million-unit level
of October 2005, according
to the National Association of Realtors.
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