News tagged with consumer spending
New research may help to reduce global supply chain disruptions
Nov 06, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- With consumer spending dwindling over the past couple months, retailers are hoping to see it increase with the holiday shopping season. In order to seize the opportunity and boost sales, retailers need to ...
Is Second Life's Economy Too Big To Fail?
Oct 13, 2009 |
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One of the more interesting developments in terms of technology is the virtual economy -- and how it translates into something that involves real money.
Swine flu could wreak more havoc on US economy, says economist (w/ Video)
Sep 23, 2009 |
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H1N1 influenza could slow growth in key industries and stall already-weak GDP growth in the third and fourth quarters of 2009, says a health economist in the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) School of Business.
Shifts in consumer spending and saving will usher in a new economic era
Sep 16, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Consumer spending will lag rather than lead the recovery from the current recession, according to University of Michigan economist Richard Curtin
Sluggish PC, ink sales hurt HP; results still beat
Aug 18, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Hewlett-Packard Co.'s 19 percent drop in quarterly profit shows that the company still relies heavily on printer ink and the troubled personal computer market, despite the aggressive transformation ...
Big tech earnings week will reveal economic trends
Jul 18, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The technology sector is often talked about as if it were a unified front, an easy-to-define monolith. People say technology stocks rose or technology stocks fell. Tech helped drive a huge boom in the 1990s, and ...
Nintendo's annual profit rises 8.5 percent
May 07, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Nintendo Co. reported an 8.5 percent rise in annual profit as the video game maker shrugged off the global slowdown that has battered other Japanese manufacturers.
