ACROSS THE BOARD : THE WEEK AHEAD.MONDAY Commerce Department reports construction spending Construction Spending An economic indicator that measures the amount of spending towards new construction. Released monthly by the U.S. Department of Commerce's Census Bureau, it looks at residential and non-residential construction in the private sector, and state and federal at for June. Treasury bill auction. National Association of Purchasing Managers releases its report on the manufacturing economy for July. ALSO TUESDAY: The Conference Board releases Leading Economic Indicators Leading economic indicators Economic series that tend to rise or fall in advance of the rest of the economy. for June. The North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. Electric Reliability Council releases its report on preparing electric power systems for the year 2000. WEDNESDAY: Commerce Department reports factory orders for June, 10 a.m. Special Senate Committee on Year 2000 Technology Problem hearing on utilities' Y2K See Y2K problem and Y2K compliant. Y2K - Year 2000 preparations. THURSDAY: The nation's retailers report monthly sales figures sales figures npl → cifras fpl de ventas for July. Labor Department The Department of Labor (DOL) administers federal labor laws for the Executive Branch of the federal government. Its mission is "to foster, promote, and develop the welfare of the wage earners of the United States, to improve their working reports weekly jobless claims. FRIDAY: Federal Reserve reports consumer credit for June. BIZ BYTES WEB GETS SMALLER: The urge to merge is setting new records online: A study released last week showed that Web merger and acquisition activity grew 22-fold from the first half of 1998 to the first half of 1999. Led by huge deals like the $6.7 billion buyout of Excite by Redwood City neighbor Home Corp., the first half of the year saw 169 Web-based transactions worth a total of $33.4 billion. In the first six months of 1998, there were 56 deals totaling $1.5 billion. ``It means the maturation of the industry,'' said Tim Miller, the president of New Media Resources, the consulting firm that prepared the report. - Knight Ridder Newspapers SITE OF THE WEEK KIDS SAFE: Some of the Internet's most-visited sites are putting their rivalry aside for a project to help parents keep their children away from pornography and drug or alcohol Web pages. America Online, Lycos Inc., The Walt Disney Co., Microsoft Corp., Yahoo! and others launched a Web site last week that includes details about more than 80 commercial software programs parents can use to block Web sites inappropriate for children. It also has collections of recommended sites safe for children of different ages. Companies in the campaign, which claim almost 95 percent of the Internet's traffic flows through their sites, will offer prominent connections to the site, www.getnetwise.org, or recompile To compile a program again. A program is recompiled after a change has been made to it in order to test and run the revised version. Programs are recompiled many times during the course of development and maintenance. See compile. the information and present it on their own Web sites. - Associated Press |
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