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...quarter would be about flat with the last one. Intel also did not offer any evidence that the PC industry is beginning to do better or if companies were just ordering a few more chips to fill falling inventory. Intel's results are good news for the broader tech sector if PC companies are actually buying more chips because their product sales have increased. But, the Intel would not say as much. "Returning to normal seasonal patterns" is double talk...
...million additional sales a year - while polluting cars would be taken off the road and replaced with more efficient ones. (All cash-for-clunkers programs require the old cars to be scrapped rather than resold.) "There are significant environmental advantages and substantive benefits for the auto sector," says Benjamin Goldstein, a policy analyst for left-leaning think tank the Center for American Progress. "This goes right for the source of the problem, for vehicles sales...
...nowhere else to go,” he said. “No one was going to hire me, no one was giving me any work, so I decided to go ahead and try to fulfill my dreams.” Sullivan said she is entering the private sector after graduation, but that she hopes to return to government work in the future. She stressed the importance of maintaining a public service mindset even in the business world. “If there is one thing that my classmates and I have been discussing here, it?...
...target of 6 to 8%, but still not bad in the current economy. While Nestlé, which manufactures, among other brands, Cailler and KitKat, is not releasing figures until the end of April, company chairman Peter Brabeck recently told Swiss newsmagazine Weltwoche that even amid a slacking consumer goods sector, chocolate sales are on the rise. "Now that people don't have a new television or a new car," he noted, "they eat a bit more chocolate...
...this was a purely capitalist system, [lending] would be slowing," Wood says. Stimulus spending over the next three months will continue to boost economic activity, Wood says, but the impact will start to wear off later in the year. Absent a recovery in China's hugely important export sector, "the bigger risk in China is of a 'W' shaped outcome," Wood says. In other words, after a brief, stimulus-driven spike, the economy will resume its downward track later in the year. Inevitably, growth will return. But Wood says a second downturn could be perilous and deep if current government...