State governments have the power to dramatically change the way electricity is produced in the United States, concludes a new report by the Network for New Energy Choices.
Mortgage rates dropped to the lowest level since Jan. 25, with the average 30-year fixed rate now 6.24 percent. According to Bankrate.com's weekly national survey of large lenders, the 30-year fixed rate mortgages had an average of 0.32 discount and origination points.
The increasing number of passenger car sales in China along with growing safety concerns is driving growth of active and passive safety systems market. To compete in the market, vehicle manufacturers are likely to adopt advanced active safety systems in a wider range of passenger vehicle segments to differentiate their products. Cost of active and passive safety systems are decreasing, likely to render them more affordable for vehicle manufacturers to increase installations in passenger cars in China.
Travelers renting cars at airport locations record significantly higher customer satisfaction levels with rental car companies than they did in 2005, according to the J.D. Power and Associates 2006 Rental Car Satisfaction Study(SM) released today.
Several important changes in the 12-month economic outlook and spending plans of the wealthiest 10% of Americans are revealed in The Affluent Market Tracking Study #10, the latest report in a series of twice-yearly surveys by The American Affluence Research Center (AARC).
Believe it or not, it was not that many years ago that many types of businesses questioned whether or not they should even be online. Now the question seems so last-century.
Airports across the world are gearing up to accommodate the entry of the Airbus A380 in 2007 by investing billions of dollars in facilities enlargement. However, the investments related to the A380 comprise only a small part of the total master plan spending aimed at meeting the requirements of increasing air traffic. Nearly 60 airports in the world will be able to accommodate the jet by 2010, although the actual operations of the A380 will itself be limited to between 40 - 50 airports.
The Conference Board announced today that the leading index for the U.K increased 0.2 percent, and the coincident index increased 0.2 percent in September.
Need a little extra spending money for the holidays? Twenty-three percent of hiring managers say they are recruiting for holiday positions, according to a recent CareerBuilder.com survey. Nearly one-in-four expect to pay their seasonal hires more than last year, with 37 percent offering $10 or more per hour. The CareerBuilder.com survey, "Holiday Jobs," was completed in September and included 1,150 hiring managers nationwide.
