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Business reports economy on the mend
Australian business conditions improved last quarter as an industry survey found a pick-up in sales, profitability and employment.
Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:41:27 -0800
Business confidence and conditions rise
BUSINESS conditions strengthened in the last three months of 2011, according to the NAB business survey.
Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:31:30 -0800
Business conditions strenthen in Dec qtr
Business conditions strengthened in the last three months of 2011, bolstered by improvements in profitability, employment and trading conditions, private survey finds.
Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:10:42 -0800
Business Hiring Optimism Improves
U.S. businesses might not yet feel great about the economy, but they’re at least more optimistic about hiring, several recent surveys show. As some surveys note, however, what business owners say they want to do and what they actually do are often very different, pointing to continued uncertainty in the employment situation.
Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:17:58 -0800
Red tape, corruption pull rug from under Afghan carpet business
KABUL (Reuters) - At a small shop a stone's throw from the Ghazi Stadium where Afghanistan's former Taliban government used to stage its public executions, Mohammad Hashem is worried about the death of his carpet business. Carpets are the country's best-known export, but prices, driven sharply higher by war, competition from abroad, red tape and corruption have taken the industry over a cliff ...
Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:49:19 -0800
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