A Tacoma Tideflats shipyard site, whose 96 years have been a roller coaster of prosperity and paucity, once again is getting an infusion of activity.
In the past few months, new homes have started to appear, here and there, across Pierce County. One or two go up at a time, filling in neighborhoods that have sat, pockmarked with empty lots, for almost four years.
If you thought the motivation for an at-home holiday stay-cation died out in 2010, you haven’t visited your local service station lately.
A look at economic developments and activity in major stock markets around the world Friday:
A study shows German consumers remain cautiously confident in Europe's largest economy despite uncertainty in the wider 17-nation eurozone.
China's Cabinet promised Wednesday to step up efforts to reverse a steep slowdown in the world's second-largest economy and said it would encourage private investment in energy and other state-dominated industries.
Retail sales fell sharply in Britain during the wettest April in a century, official data showed Wednesday, a piece of bad economic news which analysts say could help prod the Bank of England to approve more monetary stimulus.
The minutes to the last policy meeting at the Bank of England show that only one of the nine members of the rate-setting committee voted for more economic stimulus.
The 17-country eurozone risks falling into a "severe recession," the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development warned on Tuesday, as it called on governments and Europe's central bank to act quickly to keep the slowdown from dragging down the global economy.
Singapore's economic growth slowed in the first quarter as the government warned Thursday that political upheaval in Europe threatens to undermine the global economy.
Japan's economy grew an at annual rate of 4.1 percent in the first quarter amid a gradual recovery from last year's catastrophic earthquake and tsunami.
A look at economic developments and activity in major stock markets around the world Wednesday:
Maybe the U.S. economy's strength this winter wasn't just weather-related after all.
The Bank of England has trimmed its growth forecast for the U.K. economy and warned that inflation will remain above target for another year - assuming the country isn't knocked off course by turmoil in the eurozone.
Russia saw $42 billion worth of net capital outflows in the first four months of the year but there are hopes in the markets that may ease and turnaround over the coming months as a new government is installed.
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