Frost & Sullivan awards Microsoft the Market Leadership Award for Business Intelligence for the year 2006. This award goes to the company that has exhibited market share leadership through the implementation of market strategy. Microsoft has displayed excellence in all areas of the market leadership process, including the identification of market challenges, drivers and restraints, as well as strategy development and methods of addressing market dynamics.
Jones Lang LaSalle's latest global real estate capital report - "Record Volumes, Record Globalisation", recorded global direct real estate investment of US$290 billion in the first half of 2006, up 30% on the same period in 2005. Of this total, Asia Pacific accounted for approximately 15% at US$43 billion, which is a 40% increase over the same period in 2005.
Leading investors worldwide must embed environmental thinking in the heart of their property investment portfolios if the financial services sector is to play a pivotal role in halting climate change, the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) Working Group warns.
The Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc. announced today the annual re-ranking of the NASDAQ-100 Index®, effective with the market open on Monday, December 18, 2006.
NYSE Group, Inc. today announced that New York Stock Exchange listed securities have been ranked as having the world’s lowest overall cost of trading according to the second-quarter 2006 Global Trading Cost Analysis report by Elkins/McSherry, a State Street Company providing independent transaction cost analysis.
The New York Stock Exchange today released its weekly program-trading data submitted by its member firms. The report includes trading in all markets as reported to the NYSE for Nov. 27-Dec. 1.
NYSE Group, Inc. reported November 2006 transaction volume in all securities traded by NYSE Group. This report represents the NYSE Group monthly volume release issued on a combined basis for NYSE and NYSE Arca.
The 10 OPEC members bound by the cartel's output agreements produced an average 27.07 million barrels per day (b/d) in November, down 660,000 b/d from October, but still well above the group's new 26.3 million b/d output target, a Platts survey showed December 8.
The Conference Board announced today that the leading index for the U.K declined 0.1 percent, and the coincident index increased 0.1 percent in October.
