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added: 01-02-2008

Liberalization of services trade could produce large benefits for developed and developing countries alike, says the Handbook of International Trade in Services, produced by the World Bank. The Handbook highlights the potential gains from the reform of trade in communications, finance, transport and business services, estimated to be more than five times larger than those from a comparable liberalization of trade in goods.
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added: 01-02-2008

Business owners and human resource executives grappling with ways to keep their employee health benefits both competitive and cost effective found out how their plans compare to others today at a breakfast seminar at Embassy Suites Parsippany. Scott Rappoport, a 25-year veteran of the employee benefits industry and President of Benefit Sources & Solutions in Bound Brook, presented the results of the 2007 United Benefit Advisors (UBA)/Benefit Sources & Solutions Health Plan Benchmarking Survey, the nation's largest and most comprehensive survey of plan design and plan costs.
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added: 01-02-2008

After the sharpest four-week decline in more than 18 years, mortgage rates bounced back, with the average conforming 30-year fixed mortgage rate now 5.88 percent. According to Bankrate.com's weekly national survey of large lenders, the average 30-year fixed mortgage has an average of 0.38 discount and origination points.
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added: 01-02-2008

The Conference Board Help-Wanted Advertising Index — a key measure of job offerings in major newspapers across America — inched up one point in December. The Index now stands at 22. It was 33 one year ago.
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added: 31-01-2008

In January, the Economic Sentiment Indicator (ESI) decreased further in both the EU and the euro area. It fell by 2.6 points in the EU and by 1.7 points in the euro area, to 103.2 and 101.7 respectively. The indicator, which has been on a downward path since mid-2007, nevertheless still remains above its long-term average in both areas.
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added: 31-01-2008

Euro area annual inflation is expected to be 3.2% in January 2008 according to a flash estimate issued by Eurostat, the Statistical Office of the European Communities. It was 3.1% in December 2007.
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added: 31-01-2008

The euro area (EA13) seasonally-adjusted unemployment rate stood at 7.2% in December 2007, unchanged compared with November. It was 7.8% in December 2006. The EU27 unemployment rate was 6.8% in December 2007, compared to 6.9% in November. It was 7.6% in December 2006.
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added: 31-01-2008

The Monster Employment Index fell nine points in January, extending a three-month downward trend and indicating further moderation in U.S. online recruitment activity. The Monster Employment Index is based on a real-time review of millions of employer job opportunities culled from a large, representative selection of corporate career sites and job boards, including Monster(R).
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added: 31-01-2008

In January there were 3,362,500 online advertised vacancies, a largely seasonal decline of 5 percent from December, according to The Conference Board Help-Wanted OnLine Data Series. Over the year, online advertised vacancies were up 7 percent for the nation as a whole. There were 2.2 advertised vacancies online for every 100 persons in the labor force in January.
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added: 31-01-2008

CFOs of American companies' economic confidence plunged more than 10% since last quarter, moving to 19% below where it stood at this time last year, according to a recent survey of CFOs conducted by Financial Executives International (FEI) and Baruch College's Zicklin School of Business
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