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...Forecasters expect the economy to keep growing at a brisk 4% pace through next year, which supports predictions that payrolls will add jobs at a rate of about 100,000 per month. Even in some hobbled industries, job postings are already ticking up. Want ads for the financial-services sector jumped 49% for the six months through September at career website Monster.com and rose 39% for jobs relating to computer software...
...After recently inking deals with Nike and British mobile phone operator O2, it has kick-started negotiations with U.K. utility Powergen and brewers Tetley's. For businesses, the rough-and-tumble game's appeal lies in its audience; a primarily male, affluent demographic, anchored in the corporate sector. "The marketability of English rugby...
Trade should create opportunity to share our values, not lose our jobs. We can engage our private sector in ways that will bolster their bottom line, stem job hemorrhage at home and help stop the exploitation of workers and the environment around the world. I want to forge partnerships for prosperity that will explore new policies to stop our nations’ slide toward embedded wealth, entrenched poverty, and a shrinking middle class...
...well. Especially in the wake of the recent events, storms and blackouts and other calamities, we all know that our foundations—for energy, for water, for transportation—are in need of restoration. By bringing together national, state and local governments with the private sector, including colleges and universities and non-governmental organizations, we can spark a building boom that will unleash innovation and technology transfers and create new industries and new wealth. Private industry will give us the benefit of the best America has to offer, and when we make government a partner...
Consider what's happening in the technology sector, where investors are back to fawning over stock-option profligates like Cisco (up 54% year to date) and are even giving a second look to infamous Frank Quattrone IPOs like Corvis (up 91%) and Gemplus (up 88%). Overall, tech is once again the S&P 500's best-performing segment, rising 59% this year, even though that segment has experienced a 5% decline in the previous 12 months of earnings. This remains an industry dogged by sluggish corporate spending and huge amounts of excess capacity. So it's hard to comprehend...