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...stock market rally over? Up through Thursday's close, stocks were up 21% over two weeks, a gain fueled by positive news from the moribund housing market, an uptick in durable goods orders, and a well received plan from Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner to clean up the banking industry's toxic-asset mess. (Read "Banks: How Toxic Are They...
...getting worse. The most important bellwether for economic activity may be the rate of contraction in manufacturing. In the U.S., those numbers are bad. In parts of Asia and Europe the figures are much worse. If the American consumer was showing any signs of life there should be an uptick in exports from large manufacturing countries like China. That is not happening. (See pictures of the global financial crisis...
...their business, Ten Tables, which opened its Cambridge location last month, has not been negatively affected by the downturn.“We actually got busier,” chef and co-owner Krista Kranyak said of Ten Tables’ Jamaica Plain location. She attributed the uptick in business to pricing, since Ten Tables is positioned to be a more affordable alternative to older sit-down restaurants.Denise A. Jillson, the executive director of the Harvard Square Business Association, attributed good business to creativity and dedication on restaurants’ part.She pointed out that many restaurants have been participating enthusiastically...
...Although violence is down to levels not seen since August 2003, Iraq remains a dangerous, combustible place - and there's been an uptick in violence in recent weeks. Some 258 Iraqis were killed in February, a 35% increase over January's total of 191, which was the lowest figure since 2003, according to government statistics. On Thursday a car bombing at a livestock market in Hilla, south of Baghdad, left 12 people dead. Meanwhile, American and Iraqi security forces continue to try to rout out the remnants of Al-Qaeda in the restive northern city of Mosul...
...only industry planning to hire more new grads this year than last, as the new Administration expands and a graying workforce retires. (The only other sector with plans to increase hiring - that of distribution, transportation and utilities - had too few respondents for the projection to mean much.) The uptick in government recruiting is obvious to students. Last year, notes Dorothy Kerr, executive manager of Rutgers University's career services, there were just 15 government and nonprofit employers at the annual Big East Career Day in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden; others were kept out to make room for 135 private...