Sales in the outdoor gear industry are up more than 8 percent this year, topping retail sales overall. The industry’s strength may be due to its consumers’ high incomes, but the recession also has more people heading out into the wilderness. » E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us
Also tagged high-incomes, its-consumers, out-into, outdoor, recession, the-outdoor, the-wilderness-, topping-retail, wilderness, yearOrders to U.S. factories managed a slight gain in July, boosted by as a surge in demand for commercial aircraft. Meanwhile, the number of people requesting unemployment benefits declined for the second straight week, but the overall level remains high. » E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us
Also tagged a-slight-gain-, benefits-declined, del-icio-us, factories-managed, for-the, img-alt, npr, overall, overall-level, people-requesting, remains-high-, second-straight, slight-gainAmericans’ confidence in the economy improved slightly this month, but the mood is still gloomy amid job worries, according to a monthly survey. The Conference Board said its Consumer Confidence Index improved slightly to 53.5, up from a revised 51.0 in July. The improvement comes after two straight months of declines. » E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us
Also tagged a-monthly-survey-, amid, conference, consumer-confidence, economy, july-, monthly-survey-, revised-51-0, still-gloomy, the-economy, two-straightThe government of the Communist nation of Cuba changed its property law last week. Foreign investors may use state-owned land for 99 years. The change was apparently at the suggestion of foreign developers. Some are talking with the government about building golf courses. Golf was once forbidden in Cuba but the government needs money. » E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us
Also tagged building-golf, del-icio-us, img-alt, land-for, npr, suggestion, use-state-owned, with-the-governmentYou’d think times would be pretty tough for the last-place Pittsburgh Pirates, but the worst team in baseball has figured out a winning strategy for making money. » E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us
Also tagged a-winning-strategy, baseball-has, del-icio-us, figured-out, for-making, pittsburgh-, pretty-tough, think-times, worstRetail sales managed a modest 0.4 percent increase in July after two consecutive declines, but the strength was concentrated in higher sales of autos and gasoline. Sales excluding autos were up 0.2 percent as most other retailers saw their sales fall. Meanwhile, consumer prices increased by 0.3 percent, after three months of declines. » E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us
Also tagged 0-3-percent, after-three, after-two, autos-and, del-icio-us, higher-sales, modest-0-4, percent-as-most, percent-increase, retailers-saw, sales-managed, strength, their-salesThe governor is threatening to sell off two parcels of state-owned land in Grand Teton National Park to private developers. The state wants the federal government to come up with a fair trade. The land is worth more than $100 million, but the state is hardly earning any income from leasing the land. » E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us
Also tagged 100-million, a-fair-trade-, del-icio-us, grand-teton, hardly-earning, img-alt, land, sell-off, sell-off-two, two-parcelsBoeing’s New 787 Dreamliner makes its international debut at the Farnborough Airshow in England on Monday. Boeing has more than 800 orders for the fuel-efficient aircraft, but the project has suffered repeated delays, and the first planes are not expected to be delivered before next year. » E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us
Also tagged are-not, debut-at-the, del-icio-us, england-, farnborough, first, first-planes, has-more, makes-its, monday-boeing, npr, orders-for, project, project-hasPrivate sector job growth remains anemic, but the federal government will need to fill an estimated 50,000 entry-level jobs in the next year. A federal job fair in Washington, D.C., drew thousands of hopeful job seekers this week. » E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us
Also tagged del-icio-us, drew-thousands, federal, federal-government, federal-job, growth-remains, hopeful-job, sector-job, week, will-needDrugmaker GlaxoSmithKline will take a big profit hit to pay for legal costs, but the amount isn’t as high as some analysts expected. » E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us
Also tagged amount, amount-isn, big-profit, drugmaker-glaxo, glaxo, high-as-some, legal-costs, npr, pay-for, some-analysts, will-take