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Interest in clean diesel and gasoline turbocharged direct-injection engines has increased in the last year while challenges exist in the adoption of electric cars. These are some of the findings in the recent Powertrain Acceptance and Consumer Engagement (PACE) syndicated study released by Morpace Inc.

Corporates expect economic growth to resume over the next two years, but major fundraising plans are on hold as caution still reigns over corporate strategy, according to a survey of 440 senior financial and non-financial executives conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit and commissioned by RBC Capital Markets, the corporate and investment banking arm of Royal Bank of Canada.

Continuing the momentum from the second half of 2009, U.S. IPO activity pushed forward in the second quarter of 2010, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers' (PwC) U.S. IPO Watch, a quarterly and annual analysis of IPOs on U.S. stock exchanges.

Economic activity in the non-manufacturing sector grew in June for the sixth consecutive month, say the nation’s purchasing and supply executives in the latest Non-Manufacturing ISM Report On Business®.

OAG reports in the July 2010 edition of OAG FACTS that scheduled airline seat capacity within and to and from the Asia Pacific region has the highest growth this month and year-to-date. The number of seats within the region scheduled for July increased by 10% or 8.5 million, bringing the total to 93.5 million; seat capacity to and from increased by 9% or an additional 1.2 million to a total of 15.3 million seats.

The Conference Board Employment Trends Index™ (ETI) increased again in June for the eleventh consecutive month. The index now stands at 96.7, up from May’s revised figure of 96.1. The index is up 9.8 percent from a year ago.

A "European Youth Guarantee" to ensure that young people who are unemployed do not remain jobless for more than four months is among proposals made by MEPs in a resolution on improving access to the labour market for young people.

In May 2010, compared with April 2010, the volume of retail trade increased by 0.2% in the euro area (EA16) and by 0.4% in the EU27. In April retail trade fell by 0.9% and 1.0% respectively.

The SFN Group Employee Confidence Index dropped 1.0 points to 51.6 in June. The Index, which measures workers' confidence in their personal employment situation and optimism in the economic environment, decreased as a result of more workers being concerned with the strength of the economy.

The Commission has adopted a report that identifies key issues potentially hampering more efficient and fairer retail services within the Internal Market and is now launching a public consultation on the report to determine future policy priorities in this domain. Reduced accessibility to basic retail services, scarce information on retail offers beyond local markets, slow growth of e-commerce, potentially abusive contractual practices throughout the retail supply chain, lack of transparency on quality labels, unsatisfactory functioning of the retail service labour markets as well as very different approaches to environmentally friendly retail services across the EU have been identified as key issues potentially hampering the retail sector.