WSJ By The Numbers - Top 10 for Nov.14
Trade
You a Laptop? Online Sites Promote The Art of the Barter: About
400,000 firms barter each year, accounting for about $9 billion in U.S.
sales, according to barter-industry group International Reciprocal Trade
Association. BarterYourServices.com,
launched in 2004, now counts 300 small businesses as members. U-Exchange.com,
founded in 2005, just hit 11,000 profiles, 60% of them businesses and 40%
consumers. At SwapThing.com,
which started last year, about 2,400 businesses have signed up.
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Rubin's Tax Gambit: US federal revenues in fiscal 2006 were 18.4% of GDP, higher than the 18.2% post-1965 average. In October, the first month of fiscal 2007, revenues rose by 12% from a year earlier. During the late Clinton years, the federal tax receipts were a record 20.9% of GDP. The federal deficit for fiscal 2006 was only 1.9% of GDP, which is lower than all but eight years since 1975. |
18.4% Federal Revenues as % of GDP |
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Budget Deficit Widens to $49.29 Billion: Treasury's monthly budget statement shows outlays were $216.98 billion last month, up 10% from a year earlier. Government receipts in October were $167.69 billion, up 12% from a year earlier. Both receipts and outlays were records for the month of October, the Treasury said, while noting the government has run a deficit every October since 1954. Individual income-tax receipts totaled $86.22 billion in October, up 15% from the same period last year. Corporate income taxes totaled $9.35 billion last month, up 53% from the same period in 2005. |
$217B Federal Outlays in October |
| Clear Channel Buyout Talks Fuel Concern of Management Conflicts: Clear Channel's board is weighing two bids that could lead to a buyout valued at nearly $18 billion, plus the assumption of $8 billion in debt. | $18B Clear Channel PE Bids |
| Giant Neighbors Russia, China See Fault Lines Start to Appear: China buys about $1 billion worth of Russian weapons every year, making it the Russian arms industry's biggest customer. The two countries' overall trade was valued at $29 billion last year, an increase of 37% over 2004. Russia's total export were close to $250 billion in 2005, while total imports were some $100 billion. According to the official count, there are about 250,000 Chinese living in Russia. | $29B China-Russia Trade |
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Japan's Economy Expanded 0.5% In Latest Quarter: Japan's gross domestic product grew at an annual pace of 2% in third quarter, expanding some 0.5% from the second quarter in real, or price-adjusted, terms. It was also faster than the April-June quarter, when the economy grew at an annualized 1.5% rate. Private consumer spending, which accounts for 55% of GDP, declined 0.7% from the previous quarter. |
2% Japan GDP Growth |
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Face Time: The New Injectables Last year, the number of cosmetic surgical procedures fell by 5% to 1.8 million compared with five years earlier, according to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons. But over the same period, the number of "minimally invasive procedures" including facial injections and laser treatments, grew 53% to 8.4 million. Here's a list of the most popular aesthetic injectables: Botox, Restylane, Juvéderm, CosmoDerm, Radiesse, Sculptra, ArteFill, , Silicone |
8.4M Facial Treatments |
| Shopping Cart: For September, the Commerce Department reported that sales of building materials and garden supplies rose 8.3% from a year-earlier level. Also in September, the Commerce Department reported that furniture and home-furnishing sales were up 4.5% from their year-ago level. But according to MasterCard Advisors' SpendingPulse, furniture sales were actually 0.7% below their year-earlier level. For October, furniture sales were 3.1% below their year-ago level | 4.5% Furniture Growth? |
| Internet Firms Seek SEC Review Of Stock Exchanges' Data Fees: Exchanges charge $1 per month per viewer of their electronic marketplace data. Market-data fees typically provide 10% to 20% of the NYSE's revenue and much more at regional exchanges such as the Philadelphia Stock Exchange and Chicago-based National Stock Exchange. | $1 Real Time Stock Trading data per view |
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