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U.S. Tops World Business/INSEAD Innovation Index 2007

U.S. is the top country in generating new ideas, adapting them quickly and profiting from them, according to a ranking by Insead business school in France. Germany was a distant second, followed by the United Kingdom, Japan and France, reports WSJ.

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ADR Trading Volume Jumped To a Record $1.58 trillion in 2006

In 2006, trading volume for ADRs (shares of foreign companies that trade in the U.S.) surpassed $1.58 trillion, up from $963 billion in 2005, according to data from J.P. Morgan Worldwide Securities Services, reports WSJ.

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Foreign Direct Investments in China at Record $63 billion in 2006

China attracted a record $63.0 billion in foreign direct investment (FDI) in 2006, up 5% from the $60.33 billion in 2005, reports Reuters citing the official Xinhua news agency. In 2004, China received $60.6 billion in FDI.

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Empire State Index Falls Abruptly in January

The New York Fed's "Empire State" general factory conditions index for January fell sharply to 9.13 from 22.19 in December and its lowest since mid-2005, according to New York Federal Reserve. Economists polled by Reuters had expected a January reading of 20.00.

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Q4 VC Fund Raising Lowest in 3 Years; Buyouts Fund Raising at All Time High $102.9B in 2006

Private equity fundraising activity slowed considerably in the fourth quarter of 2006 but still broke records for the full year according to Thomson Financial and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA). The largest buyout fund closing for 2006 was $14 billion TPG Partners V, LP followed by Bain Capital Fund IX at $8.0 billion. 

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US Off-line Retail Sales Influenced by Online Browsing to Hit $1 trillion by 2011

U.S. off-line retail sales influenced by consumers' online browsing and research will increase by a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 12% over the next five years to hit $1 trillion by 2011,with the  off-line-influenced sales reaching 40% of total US retail sales, according to a new report by JupiterResearch. 

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User Generated Online Video: 55% of Online Video, but Only 15% of Revenue by 2010: Screen Digest

By 2010 more than half (55%) of all the video content consumed online in the US will be user generated, representing 44 billion video streams, but the user generated videos will make up just 15% of total online video revenues, according to Screen Digest.

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U.S. Investors Flood International Stock Funds with $150 billion in 2006

Of the estimated $180 billion that flowed into stock funds of all types in 2006, .U.S. investors flooded international stock funds with an estimated $150 billion, and only $30 billion went to U.S. stock funds, the smallest since 2002, according to TrimTabs.com, (reports USA Today).

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Q4 Tech Job Cuts Fall To Record Low; 2006 Cuts Lowest Since 2000: Challenger

U.S. Tech-sector job cuts plummeted 77% in the fourth quarter of 2006 to 11,619, according to the latest survey by Challenger, Gray & Christmas, Inc.  The record low fourth-quarter brought the tech-sector job cut total to 131,181 in 2006, the lowest since the 100,901 job cuts in 2000. 

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PS3 Shipments Reach 2 million; Likely to Miss 6 million Target by March

Sony PS3 Shipments:
US Shipments, Jan'07: 1 mil.
Japan Shipments, Jan'07: 1 mil.
Global target by Mar'07: 6 mil.
Sony's PlayStation 3 shipments reached 2 million in about two months after the November launch, compared with its original target to hit the figure by the end of December, as PS3 competes with Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Nintendo's Wii for the top spot in the $30 billion game market's console war.

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