The index showing business confidence in Germany continued to improve further in February, posting gains for the ninth consecutive month.
President Barack Obama touted his agenda to foster innovation as a means of spurring job creation and boosting U.S. global competitiveness during a high-tech visit to
New York City mayor Michael Rubens Bloomberg has joined forces with some of the biggest names in the fashion industry like Oscar de la Renta, Brooks Brothers, Malia Mills and Diane von Furstenberg to implement immigration reforms and promote easier visa procedure for international workers.
President Barack Obama will pursue a broad agenda when he makes a five-day trip to three Latin American nations in March, soon after Treasury Sec. Timothy Geithner traveled to the largest economy in the region, Brazil, to lay the groundwork for the President's trip.
After his meeting with tech executives, President Obama headed up the road to Oregon to visit Intel and talk innovation.
It's too early to be sure, but signs that China's current account surplus will keep shrinking as a share of national output could draw some of the venom from the debate on global economic imbalances preoccupying the G20.
HSBC Holdings Plc will launch a flash purchasing managers' index for the Chinese manufacturing sector on Feb. 21, providing one of the earliest available performance indicators for the world's second-largest economy.
Core inflation, considered the key measure of US inflation, remains tame. However, it is the incorrect measure to look at in this time period and doesn't tell the whole story.
Zambia expects to produce more than 2.8 million tonnes of maize in the current 2010/2011 season, a slight increase from the 2.7 million tonnes reaped last year, the minister of agriculture said on Thursday.
Zambia's economy is expected to grow 6.5 percent this year and 6.6 percent next year on the back of a rally in copper prices and improvements in agriculture, a Reuters poll of 12 economists showed on Thursday.
Strikes damaged Egypt's vital export industries on Thursday as manufacturers kept factories idle because a nationwide bank shutdown stopped them buying supplies and selling their goods, industry officials said.
Egypt's uprising has cost its tourism, construction and manufacturing industries at least 10 billion Egyptian pounds, a government statistics authority said on Thursday.
Manufacturing activity in the Philadelphia area soared in February, climbing to its highest level since January 2004.
The UK factory orders rose in February as demand for exports from the country continued to improve. Manufacturers’ total order book balance in Britain rose to -8 in February from -16 in January, the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) survey showed on Thursday.
The top pre-market NASDAQ stock market gainers are: ValueClick, American Capital, Photronics, Fred's, Camtek, and Dell. The top pre-market NASDAQ stock market losers are: Warren Resources, Swisher Hygiene, Seahawk Drilling, PDL BioPharma, and LogMeIn.
John Steinbeck's masterpiece The Grapes of Wrath stands as a chronicle of the Great Depression and as a commentary on the economic and social system that gave rise to it. His themes of man's inhumanity to man, the dignity and rage of the working class, and the selfishness and greed of the moneyed class ring true today.
The U.S. labor market still is in a deep rut despite a recent drop in the unemployment rate, Cleveland Federal Reserve Bank President Sandra Pianalto said on Tuesday. Unemployment rates have decline a bit recently, but job creation remains anemic, as businesses have been cautious in expanding their payrolls, Pianalto said in remarks to the Summa Hospitals Women's Board.
Outsourcing by U.S. technology companies is on the decline, according to a survey by BDO USA, the accounting and consulting organization.
U.S. stocks opened lower on Tuesday after the government report showed that retail sales rose less than forecast in January.
A gauge of manufacturing in New York State climbed in February to its highest level in eight months, helped by a rise in inventories, the New York Federal Reserve said in a report on Tuesday.
Futures on major U.S. stock indices point to modestly higher opening on Tuesday ahead of a wave of economic data including retail sales.
An analyst from iSuppli said a cheaper iPhone wouldn't exactly mean smaller margins for Apple.
