Super Bowl Economy: 2.5 million HDTVs; $800M Lost Wages; $8.7B Total Spend
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Americans plan to take
advantage of retailers’ promotions of HDTVs for Super Bowl as 2.5 million
are expected to purchase a new television
for Super Bowl Sunday, according
to the Retail Advertising and Marketing Association’s (RAMA) 2007 Super
Bowl Consumer Intentions and Actions Survey.
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U.S.
institutional investors (pension funds, investment companies, insurance
companies, banks and foundations) control $24.1 trillion in assets in
2005, up from $17.3 trillion in 2002, and held a record 61.2% of total
U.S. equities at the end of 2005, according to The Conference Board
.
2006
was a record year for private equity in both fundraising and investments.
684 PE funds raised a record $432 billion worldwide in 2006, lead by Buyout
and Real Estate funds with $213 billion and $63 billion
respectively.
U.S. and European productivity growth was relatively slow in 2006, U.S. productivity grew just 1.4% in 2006
while the EU increased at at1.5%, according to preliminary estimates by
The Conference Board. U.S. labor productivity growth in 2006 was the
lowest in more than a decade.
Indian
software and services exports are expected to jump nearly 33% to $31.3
billion during the fiscal year ending Mar 2007, according to the the
Strategic Review 2007 report by NASSCOM, IT software and service
industry trade body in India.
China's internet population jumped 23.4%
or 14 million new users last
year to 137 million people, or about 10% of its 1.3 billion population,
according to China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC). China is on pace to surpass the
U.S. within
two years as the nation with the most Internet users.
