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FILTER RESULTS ►Saving energy in subway stations
As well as being the backbone of urban public transport systems, subways are also major consumers of energy. For example, the entire underground train network in Barcelona consumes around 63.1 million kWh a year. A third of the total...Show More Summary
Can’t Knock The Hustle: 8 BIGGEST Power Moves By Rappers
Hip-Hop is a golden genre used by major corporations to sell everything from cars, clothes, Happy Meals, flavored liquors and surfboard-sized cellphones. Without it, most companies wouldn’t reach the “urban” consumers with massive spending power they covet. Mostly from wastelands
Guess?, Inc. (GES), Aeropostale, Inc. (ARO), Urban Outfitters, Inc. (URBN): 3 Apparel Retailers to Watch
Although apparel sales have outperformed many other retailing segments over the past year, the sluggish economic recovery and the rise on the payroll tax in the U.S. have hurt consumers’ discretionary spending power and, therefore, the industry’s profits. Show More Summary
The Coca-Cola Company (KO), Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (WMT): Targeting Africa as the ‘New China’
With about 17% of the world’s population, an emerging middle-class of young consumers and an increased rate of urbanization, Africa is starting to become the ‘new China’ in the eyes of emerging market investors. Growing roughly three times faster than the rest of the world, the story of the African middle-class is finally becoming a [...]
Half a Billion: China’s Middle-Class Consumers
China’s society is changing beyond all recognition. At the heart of the most sweeping social and economic transformation the world has seen is the rise of a powerful new – largely urban – middle class. China’s urban middle-class population alone, if considered as a country, is larger than the entire U.S. Show More Summary
Chained CPI Versus The Standard CPI: Breaking Down The Numbers
By Doug Short: Note from dshort: I've updated this commentary to include the April Consumer Price Index data published last week. The Consumer Price Index for Urban Consumers (CPI-U, or more generally CPI) is the most familiar gauge of inflation in the U.S. Show More Summary
Urban Outfitters: Ready For A Mobile Shopping Bull Run
ByDallas Salazar: One of the biggest long-term risks for specialty retailers is that they tend to age with their consumers. Your local mall is littered with stores that were once industry leaders only to find themselves today increasingly less relevant. Show More Summary
A Long Term Look At Inflation
By Doug Short: The May 2012 Consumer Price Index for Urban Consumers (CPI-U) released today puts the April year-over-year inflation rate at 1.06%, dramatically below the 3.92% average since the end of the Second World War. For a comparison...Show More Summary
Qualcomm Proposes a Cell-Phone Network by the People, for the People
Mobile network speeds in urban areas could dramatically increase if consumers connected small, public base stations to their home broadband. Mobile chipmaker Qualcomm and some U.S. wireless carriers are investigating an idea that would see small cellular base stations installed in homes to serve passing smartphone users. Show More Summary
Senator Warren Questions Consultants On Illegal Foreclosures
``COMMITTEE ON BANKING, HOUSING, AND URBAN AFFAIRS SUBCOMMITTEE ON FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS AND CONSUMER PROTECTION met in OPEN SESSION to conduct a hearing entitled "Outsourcing Accountability? Examining the Role of Independent Consultants". Show More Summary
Senator Warren Questions Consultants On Illegal Foreclosures
Financial Institutions and Consumer Protection April 11, 2013 COMMITTEE ON BANKING, HOUSING, AND URBAN AFFAIRS SUBCOMMITTEE ON FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS AND CONSUMER PROTECTION met in OPEN SESSION to conduct a hearing entitled “Outsourcing Accountability? Examining the Role of Independent Consultants”. Show More Summary
What If Chained CPI Had Been Used to Calculate COLAs Since 2002?
By Doug Short: Each year the Social Security cost-of-living adjustment COLA is calculated based on the change from the Q3 average of the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W) from the Q3 average of the previous year, rounded to one decimal place. Show More Summary
A Long-Term Look At Inflation
By Doug Short: The April 2012 Consumer Price Index for Urban Consumers (CPI-U) released Tuesday puts the March year-over-year inflation rate at 1.47%, significantly less than half the 3.92% average since the end of the Second World War. Show More Summary
China retailers stumble in pursuit of growth
GOME and Li Ning expanded rapidly to take advantage of rising wealth and urbanization. Economies of scale looked like the reward. But online shopping and shifting consumer tastes have forced a costly rethink. China’s expansion can be disruptive as well as lucrative.
A Long-Term Look At Inflation
By Doug Short: The March 2012 Consumer Price Index for Urban Consumers (CPI-U) released today puts the February year-over-year inflation rate at 1.98%, about half the 3.92% average since the end of the Second World War. For a comparison...Show More Summary
CPI increases 0.7% in February, Core CPI 0.2%, NY Fed Manufacturing indicates expansion
• From the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS): Consumer Price Index - February 2013 The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) increased 0.7 percent in February on a seasonally adjusted basis, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Show More Summary
Urban Outfitters Inc. Presents at UBS Global Consumer Conference, Mar-13-2013 08:50 AM
Urban Outfitters, Inc. (URBN) March 13, 2013 8:50 am ET Executives Francis J. Conforti - Chief Financial Officer, Chief Accounting Officer and Controller Analysts Roxanne Meyer - UBS Investment Bank, Research Division Presentation Roxanne Meyer - UBS Investment Bank, Research Division If you've got some questions, feel free to fill out an index card. Show More Summary
A Long-Term Look At Inflation
By Doug Short: The February 2012 Consumer Price Index for Urban Consumers (CPI-U) released today puts the January year-over-year inflation rate at 1.59%, less than half the 3.92% average since the end of the Second World War. For a comparison...Show More Summary
How China's Urban Consumers Have Changed Since 1995
When your country gets wealthier, you spend more of your money on things that aren't food. So it's not surprising that Chinese urban consumers now spend 14 percentage points less of their budget on food today than they did in 1995, US...Show More Summary
The Volkswagen Jetta is Like Fresh Meat or Something
From Toronto-based agency Red Urban comes the above spot for Volkswagen Canada, which tells car-buying consumers that the 2013 Jetta is as fresh as fresh meat. You know, fresh as in hip or cool, while being fresh as in new and edible...Show More Summary
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