The 2012 job hunting season is officially open with the new year and the first week back to work. January is always the busiest hiring month of the year thanks to new recruiting budgets being unleashed. “The HR department is about to get busy,” says Chris Russell, founder of AllCountyJobs.com, a regional job board network [...]
A new study ranks Australia 3rd and New Zealand 4th out of 110 countries in a worldwide assessment of wealth and quality of life. Norway and Denmark lead the rankings. For the first time this year, a non-Western country leads the Economy sub-index, with Singapore claiming 1st place ahead of Norway and Switzerland. The Legatum [...]
Data through March 2011, released by Standard & Poor’s for its S&P/Case-Shiller(1) Home Price Indices, the leading measure of U.S. home prices, show that the U.S. National Home Price Index declined by 4.2% in the first quarter of 2011, after having fallen 3.6% in the fourth quarter of 2010. The National Index hit a new [...]
According to figures released by the U.S. Department of Commerce, retail sales grew again in February by the most in four months spurred by an increase in job growth and good weather, noted the Retail Industry Leaders Association (RILA). Monthly retail sales figures for February were up 1.0 percent over December and 8.9 percent over [...]