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Kraft Foods announces that it will split into two operations consisting of its North American grocery business and its global snack foods business. [ 219 ] United States debt-ceiling crisis : The Dow Jones Industrial Average plunges 512 points (−4.3%) on economic worries, becoming the worst day for stocks since December 2008 and, at this time ...
The recession may be on its way out, but for many the progress in 2010 was frustratingly slow, with improvements more of a rumor than a reality. Nothing ever stays the same, however, and although ...
The August 2011 stock markets fall was the sharp drop in stock prices in August 2011 in stock exchanges across the United States, Middle East, Europe and Asia. This was due to fears of contagion of the European sovereign debt crisis to Spain and Italy, as well as concerns over France's current AAA rating, [1] concerns over the slow economic growth of the United States and its credit rating ...
Despite the recession, last year was a banner year for e-commerce. U.S. e-retail sales jumped 9.8% in 2010 from 2009, totaling $142.491 billion worth of merchandise, according to Web measuring ...
The Census Bureau releases sector-by-sector statistics on the number of establishments, total business activity, annual payroll, and number of paid employees. A standardized classification of the economy into sectors makes it possible to compare census results over time.
The end of 2011 brought to a close a disastrous year for Bank of America. Falling by 58%, it was the worst-performing stock in the 30-member Dow Jones Industrials Index ( NYS: ^DJI ) .
Dates Duration (months) Annual Employment Growth [2] Annual GDP Growth [3] Description Oct 1945– Nov 1948 37 +5.2% +1.5%: As the United States demobilized from World War II, the decline in government spending caused a brief recession in 1945 and suppressed GDP growth for several years thereafter.
These stats are for January to August 2011 compared with the same time frame in 2010. Total U.S. energy consumption was up 0.3%. Coal usage was down 2.8% and power generation usage of coal was ...