Top 10 Most Competitive Retailer for 2007
The top 10
most competitive retailers in 2007 have generated a return on invested
capital (ROIC) of 15.43%, three times higher than other retailers at
5.03% since 2001, according to a study conducted for the NRF Foundation by the Kanbay
Research Institute (KRI).
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India's
industrial production rose 14.4% in November, the fastest pace in 11
years, compared to 4.4% growth in October, according to the Central
Statistical Organisation, reports Bloomberg. Analysts expected an 11.3%
increase in November. Rising consumer spending may prompt the
central bank to raise its 6% benchmark interest rate.
U.S.
consumer confidence soared at the start of the new year, as Americans are
feeling much more optimistic about their economic future than they were at
the close of 2006, according the RBC CASH (Consumer Attitudes and Spending
by Household) Index.
Nintendo sold 604,200 of its new Wii video game consoles in the
United States in December, beating Sony, which sold 490,700 units of its
new PlayStation 3, according to retail sales on the seventh-generation video-game
systems by market-research firm NPD.
U.S.
retail sales rose 0.9% in December, the
strongest pace in five months, to $369.9 billion. driven by strong 3%
jump in electronic gadget sales, according to
the Commerce Department. The increase was better than the 0.7%
advance that economists had forecast.
The
top decile U.S. endowments were almost 50% invested in “alternatives”
- hedge funds, private equity, real estate, distressed debt, energy and
natural resources and venture capital -, and reported
returns in excess of 16.8% in 2006, according to the
2007 Commonfund Benchmarks Study of Educational Endowments.
As
Entrepreneurial behavior
continues to fuel the engine of innovation and growth around the world, U.S. entrepreneurs have created most
of the 6.8 million new jobs since 2003, according to the eighth annual Global
Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) by Babson College and London Business
School.
2006
set an all-time record for U.S. corporate patents with 173,772 issued by
the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), an increase of a whopping 20.8%
from 2005, according to 
