Data through November 2010, released by Standard & Poor’s for its S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices, the leading measure of U.S. home prices, show a deceleration in the annual growth rates in 17 of the 20 MSAs and the 10- and 20-City Composites compared to what was reported for October 2010. The 10-City Composite was down [...]
The New Year brings new hopes of continued economic recovery and job creation and new research may provide clues as to the positions in demand within the finance, accounting and financial services industries. According to the 2011 Robert Half Salary Guides, many roles show promise for the coming year with salaries returning to pre-recessionary levels. [...]
Data from research analyst PIERS, a sister company of the JOC, supports the expectation that containerized exports – which jumped nearly 12 percent in the first half of 2010 before slowing in the third quarter – will accelerate to mid- to high single-digit growth over the next few quarters. Fueled by a growing Asian middle [...]
The first 12 hours of a U.S. dollar collapse!
Kinect for Xbox 360 soldone million units worldwide in 10 days and is on pace to hit five million by the end of the year. The announcement comes a week before the biggest selling day of the year, Black Friday, and in the wake of increasing momentum for Xbox 360, which led U.S. video game [...]
For the first time in Apple’s history, the company’s shares rose above $300 a symbolic milestone for the tech giant from Silicon Valley. The shares opened at $300.20 Wednesday, up 0.6% from Tuesday and more than 30 times their price seven years ago. A huge leap for a Company that ten years ago was struggling [...]
Intel has surprised the online security market yesterday when the company announced its plan of acquiring one of the leaders on the security software market, McAfee. This move – that will cost Intel over $7 billion – will allow the chip maker giant to build chips containing McAfee’s security software, thus providing greater performance and [...]
Social gaming is one of the rising stars of the online business, and an unexpected one: who would have thought that online farms and mafia simulators would have such a great potential? But they have, as proven by the acquisitions made by bigger companies lately: Electronic Arts has taken over Playfish last winter, Disney has [...]
This strategic move extends Yahoo’s ability to provide high quality, personally relevant content for the benefit of more than 600 million users as well as tens of thousands of advertisers. As Yahoo! enhances its social, mobile, local, and media offerings, the acquisition of Associated Content reinforces the company’s longstanding promise to offer the best of [...]
The price uptrend in the $2.8 trillion global petrochemicals business continued into early April establishing fresh six-month highs, before giving way to an overall price decline for the month, according to the Platts Global Petrochemical Index (PGPI) data just released. The index, a basket of the most widely-used petrochemicals prices expressed in dollars per metric [...]