Leading indicators increase. (Stock Index).
Declines in broad equity indices and lodging stocks during the four weeks ending Feb. 4 and the Bureau of Economic Analysis' advance estimate of weak gross domestic growth for the fourth quarter of 2002 portend continued uncertainty about the timing of a lodging industry rebound. Economic news...

Meeting our growth targets.
WHILE other Asian economies are looking at gloomy times, the Philippine economy despite all the sociopolitical pressures the country has been subjected to, is expected to perform creditably this year, its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growing by about 4 to 4.5 percent in for the whole year. ...

Palace confident on growth targets.
Malaca? expressed confidence yesterday the government can comfortably meet its growth targets of 4 to 4.5 percent for the gross domestic product (GDP) and 4.5 to 5 percent for the gross national product (GNP) for the whole year. Press Secretary Ignacio Bunye aired this optimism after Socio-Economic...

Economy expands 2.9% in 3rd quarter.
Gov't says 3.3% growth rate for whole year likely The country's economy grew by a slightly better than forecast 2.9 percent in the third quarter backed by strong domestic consumption growth, stepping above the recession woes which have plagued the rest of the region. The government announced...

Malaysian consumer spending to rise.
When Market: Asia Pacific last briefly reviewed the Malaysian market in January 2006 (16:1), one of the Malaysian Institute for Economic Research's (MIER) sub headings as they discussed third quarter 2006 consumer sentiment was: "More Cheerful." As of February 14, 2007, MIER's fourth quarter 2006 consumer research...

Half of Americans Say They Are Underpaid; Middle- and lower-income Americans more likely to say so.
Byline: Dennis Jacobe, Chief Economist Synopsis: Middle- and lower-income Americans, women, and Democrats are more likely than upper-income Americans, men, and independents and Republicans, respectively, to feel they are underpaid for the work they do. PRINCETON, NJ -- When asked to say in all honesty...

Business briefs.
COLUMN: BUSINESS BRIEFS Local Open house slated WORCESTER - Vanasse Hangen Brustlin Inc., a Watertown-based design, engineering and planning firm, will hold an open house from 3 to 7:30 p.m. Sept. 18 at its new offices at Union Station, Suite 219. ...

Consumer Online Retail Spending Tops $610 Million Per Day for Five Consecutive Days with Online Holiday Season Spending to Date Growing 25 Percent Versus 2005, According to comScore Networks.
Heaviest Online Shopping Day of the 2006 Holiday Season Expected to Occur Week of December 11 RESTON, Va., Dec. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- comScore Networks, a leader in measuring the digital age, today released its estimates of consumer online non-travel (retail) spending at U.S. sites for the 2006...

Equities likely to remain range bound; global cues mixed.
MUMBAI: Equities are likely to open flat-to-negative taking cue from Dow's 246 point fall on Friday but will remain range bound through the day. US stocks declined sharply on Friday on a warning by American Express of mounting credit-card defaults and a slowdown in consumer spending. ...

Index charts slowed growth.
Byline: Joe Mosley The Register-Guard The monthly LibertyBank Small Business Index came out Friday with a glass-half-full report, pointing out that although overall conditions for small business owners continued to slip in April, the U.S. economy has managed to stay out of a recession - barely. ...