Frost & Sullivan awards Microsoft the Market Leadership Award for Business Intelligence for the year 2006. This award goes to the company that has exhibited market share leadership through the implementation of market strategy. Microsoft has displayed excellence in all areas of the market leadership process, including the identification of market challenges, drivers and restraints, as well as strategy development and methods of addressing market dynamics.
Jones Lang LaSalle's latest global real estate capital report - "Record Volumes, Record Globalisation", recorded global direct real estate investment of US$290 billion in the first half of 2006, up 30% on the same period in 2005. Of this total, Asia Pacific accounted for approximately 15% at US$43 billion, which is a 40% increase over the same period in 2005.
Leading investors worldwide must embed environmental thinking in the heart of their property investment portfolios if the financial services sector is to play a pivotal role in halting climate change, the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) Working Group warns.
The 10 OPEC members bound by the cartel's output agreements produced an average 27.07 million barrels per day (b/d) in November, down 660,000 b/d from October, but still well above the group's new 26.3 million b/d output target, a Platts survey showed December 8.
The Conference Board announced today that the leading index for the U.K declined 0.1 percent, and the coincident index increased 0.1 percent in October.
The industry has grown with an increase in prices, sales, and profits. Since food and beverages is a major industry in the United States, it is less vulnerable to economic changes. The cosmopolitan culture in the country also greatly aids the growth of this industry.
In the construction sector, seasonally adjusted production grew by 0.8% in the euro area and by 1.0% in the EU25 in the third quarter of 2006, compared to the previous quarter. In the second quarter of 20064, production increased by 2.9% and 2.1% respectively.
The European Commission has adopted yesterday a Regulation on a common charging scheme for air navigation services. The new charging system regulates which costs are eligible and how users will be charged for air navigation services. The regulation will apply as of 1 January 2007 . Building on the current international system, the harmonised system will contribute to achieving greater transparency and encourage the safe and effective provision of air navigation services.
