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That's to say, before you run out to start an import-export business, take a look at some other numbers in the shipping world that are far less robust. Shipping by container, typically finished goods, remains troublingly cheap, a sign that consumer products are still not flowing between continents. The price for a 20-foot equivalent unit (TEU) container on an East Asia-to-Europe voyage is reportedly currently maxing out at a paltry $500. Though the pace of the drop in rates has slowed, there are signs that charter prices have still not bottomed out, having dipped below...
...Perhaps best of all, Snapdragon-based smartbooks - think of them as a smartphone on steriods - are expected to sell for around $200 when they start hitting the market later this year. "Netbooks are going to have a totally different look and feel a year or two from now," says Kan. "But they won't replace the smartphone. Eventually, in your bag you're going to have your mobile phone and your netbook." That's what manufacturers are hoping for, at least...
Staffers in the industry at the heart of the nation's economic woes have been hurt less in the downturn than the rest of the country has. Jobs in the banking and insurance industries have fallen just 5% since the start of the recession. That's half a percentage point less than the 5.4% overall drop in nongovernment employment over the same time period, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). And it is far less than the pain experienced by workers in other sectors of the economy...
...sure, the financial-services business is not immune to the downturn. Many bankers have lost their jobs as their firms have faced steep losses from bad loans or just gone out of business. There are 296,500 fewer people working in banking and insurance than there were at the start of the recession, according to the BLS. And financial-services workers have been hit far harder in this recession than in past ones. In the 2001 downturn, employment in the banking and insurance sectors actually rose 1%. Finance-industry jobs did fall in the early-'90s recession, but just...
...will determine how expensive health-care reform will be for consumers, business and government. And what goes into the basic benefits package is a political minefield - which is why many health-care experts say they don't want it left in the hands of Congress and lobbyists. "If you start fighting over whether chiropractors should be in the benefits package, this bill is dead," says MIT's Gruber...