ACROSS THE BOARD : THE WEEK AHEAD.MONDAY Treasury bill auction. 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 August. Federal Open Market Committee meets to review interest rates. WEDNESDAY: Commerce Department reports factory orders for August. THURSDAY: 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 Initial Jobless Claims is a report issued by the U.S. Department of Labor on a weekly basis. This report tracks how many people have filed for unemployment benefits in the previous week. It is a good gauge of the U.S. job market. . Federal Reserve reports consumer credit for August. Freddie Mac Freddie Mac: see Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation. reports on weekly mortgage rates. The nation's biggest retailers report monthly sales figures sales figures npl → cifras fpl de ventas for September. BIZ BYTES PRAISE THE BAR: Academics and retail executives gathered last week at a Smithsonian Institution to praise the bar code, which made its debut 25 years ago. Though consumers pay them little heed, the retail and grocery industries describe universal price codes - scanned an estimated 5 billion times each day - as among the most significant advances since, well, sliced bread. ``In all my years, I've seen nothing that has changed the industry like the universal product code,'' said Bob Martin, a former Wal-Mart executive. The lack of public attention to the bar code doesn't distress Alan Haberman, who was on the 1970s committee that chose the design of today's bar codes.``Isn't that what you hope happens with most standards? The proof that this is successful is that everybody takes it for granted.'' - Associated Press SITE OF THE WEEK IT DOES THE DIRTY WORK: Tired of surfing the Web every day to find news about your favorite investments? You might want to try www.companysleuth.com This (advertising-supported) Internet service from Infonautics Corp. does exactly that and a bunch more. When you register at the Web site, the service lets you pick 10 publicly traded companies publicly traded company A company whose shares of common stock are held by the public and are available for purchase by investors. The shares of publicly traded firms are bought and sold on the organized exchanges or in the over-the-counter market. and then culls culls the animals extracted from a herd or flock by culling. news wires, Internet news groups, published stock analyst reports, federal government filings and other info about your targets and then sends you a daily e-mail listing them. - Knight Ridder Newspapers |
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