With significant losses to their savings and investments, and economists warning of a prolonged recession, many Americans are feeling uncertain about their retirement security and their ability to pay for long-term care services.
CCID Consulting's data shows that China's sales volume of China's notebook computer market in 2008Q3 reached 218.7 million sets, up 34.5% year-on-year, with a decline in growth rate which could be attributed to the overall economic downturn and the Olympic Games.
Discover® Card released the findings of its second annual Thanksgiving Survey that asks consumers how they plan to spend the holiday. Despite the state of the economy, seven out of 10 respondents, or 70 percent, said they will not cut down on Thanksgiving travel this year.
In 1995, when The Harris Poll® began measuring online activity, less than 18 million adults used the Internet in their homes, offices, schools, libraries or other locations. Now, thirteen years, later, fully 184 million adults are online.
Significant potential exists for additional crop production in Southern Africa based on land availability. However, growing crops for biofuel feedstock will only be realised if there is concerted effort from key stakeholders to address the food shortages in the region.
EU Consumer Commissioner, Meglena Kuneva, the US Chairman of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, Nancy Nord, and the Chinese vice-Minister of AQSIQ, Wei Chuanzhong, met in Brussels for the first high-level trilateral summit on product safety. The high level meeting is intended to send a strong political signal of the determination of all sides to keep product safety at the top of the international political agenda, recognising that open markets can only be built on strong and secure management of global product supply chains.
The Internet will be a key tool for saving money this holiday shopping season, according to US online females surveyed in October 2008 by SheSpeaks. More than two-thirds of respondents said they would try to use more coupons and coupon codes this year, and nearly as many said they would spend more time online looking for bargains.
Increasing oil price and growing concerns over energy security are helping accelerate the development and commercialization of fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs). Federal and local governments have been proactively funding fuel cell technology and in the medium term, there would be rigorous developments in fuel cell technology, standardization of production and storage of hydrogen, and ramping up of the mammoth task of building hydrogen infrastructure.
Across Europe, we are transforming into a continent of content-craving "connect-aholics", according to the findings of the AMD European Connectivity Study of over 5,000 online respondents. Sponsored by AMD, in conjunction with independent research company, YouGov, 77% of respondents said they could not live without daily access to the internet.
The annual growth rate of the outstanding amount of debt securities issued by euro area residents decreased from 7.8% in August 2008 to 7.1% in September. For the outstanding amount of quoted shares issued by euro area residents, the annual growth rate was 0.8% in September 2008, the same as in August.
