The United States Commerce Department reported that the first quarter personal savings rate was negative 1 percent. This figure continues an alarming negative trend, says Jeff Seely, chairman and CEO of ShareBuilder Corporation.
Customers may not be the only audience that needs selling as retailers struggle to retain existing talent and recruit new talent. Nearly half of retail employers (48 percent) say it's harder to retain employees this year compared to last year, according to a recent CareerBuilder.com survey.
Second-home sales were mixed in 2006, with the combined total of vacation- and investment-home sales accounting for 36 percent of all existing and new residential transactions - down from 40 percent of sales in 2005, according to the National Association of Realtors(R).
Information and communication technologies (ICT) are vital to managing China’s unprecedented growth challenges, according to a new World Bank study titled China’s Information Revolution: Managing the Economic and Social Transformation. This report, the first to comprehensively map out China’s current ICT landscape, provides a forward-looking assessment of the state of the country’s ICT preparedness.
Total online job ads were 4,365,000 in April, an increase of 610,600 or 16 percent from March, according to The Conference Board Help-Wanted OnLine Data Series™. Part of the rise reflects seasonal factors including the longer reference period of mid-March to mid-April, when there were three more days than in the previous month.
Xinhua Finance and Market News International (MNI), a part of the news service line of Xinhua Finance, announced the April Xinhua Finance/MNI China business sentiment survey. The results of the survey suggest that Chinese companies are continuing to see booming growth conditions and, despite warnings of more government tightening measures, they remain confident strong growth will continue.
According to a recent benchmarking study by Best Practices, LLC the average administrative cost per domestic relocation is $513 and the average administrative cost per international relocation is $8,668.
The Economic Sentiment Indicator (ESI) remained broadly stable at a high level in both the EU and the euro area in April. The indicator edged down by 0.2 of a point in the EU and by 0.1 of a point in the euro area, to 113.6 and 111.0 respectively.
Escalating fiscal issues impacting the U.S. budget deficit could potentially threaten the nation's economic health, according to the April issue of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas' Economic Letter.
