Lane County jobless rate up.
Byline: Sherri Buri McDonald The Register-Guard Lane County's jobless rate climbed in June to 5.4 percent, up from 5.2 percent in May, according to figures released by the state Employment Department. The June rate was 0.3 percentage points higher than the 5.1 percent rate of...

Market volatile ahead of March expiry, Nifty resistance at 4850.
Byline: Mandar Nimkar MUMBAI: Indian equities slipped on Thursday on weak global cues, rising commodity prices, and March futures expiry on Thursday. US stocks fell Wednesday as orders for durable goods dropped and sales of new homes declined to a 13- year low. Dow Jones slipped 0.88...

Resource exhaustibility: a myth refuted by entrepreneurial capital maintenance.
The concept of myth is defined as "an unproved collective belief that is accepted uncritically" (Random House Dictionary 1969, 946). One such myth is the idea that extractive resources are exhaustible in an economic sense. In this article, I examine extractive resource availability as it is affected by what...

Oregonians' recycling declines in 2006.
Byline: Susan Palmer The Register-Guard More stuff is going into Oregon landfills than ever - 1,753 pounds per person in 2006, according to a new report. That's a 5 percent increase over 2005 and carries the state a little farther away from its goal of recycling 50...

Positive close seen to 2007 on bourses.
MUMBAI: Indian equities are seen closing on a positive note on the last day of the year, despite mixed cues from overseas. The indices are seen opening higher tracking Asian peers, but volumes are seen low on account of New Year's Eve. "The Sensex has...

Industrial growth recovers, RBI may swing into action.
NEW DELHI: Industrial production grew at 8.6% in February 2008, compared to 11% a year-ago. Since the growth figure is better than January's 5.3%, the apprehension of a major slowdown is kept aside for now. For the first 11 months of 2007-08, industrial growth stood at 8.7% as against...

Well-done, but still way off.
NEW DELHI: In a span of 60 years, India's economy has grown 12 times in size and its population has nearly trebled. The percentage of population living in urban areas has increased from 17% during 1950-51 to 28%. Life expectancy and literacy rate have shown dramatic progress...

Sensex slips below 16K; Tata Motors, RIL drag.
MUMBAI: Equities remained subdued amid weak global cues as negative indicators about business spending in the US worried investors. But even as the overseas trend weighed on sentiment, traders were seen carrying long positions from the March series to April ahead of the current month futures and options expiry...

Investors spot value picks in debris.
MUMBAI: Dalal street bulls decided to have a blast at the slightest glimmer of sunshine on Friday. They are aware that the odds are stacked against them for the time being, thanks to subdued global markets and political uncertainty. But after partying for months on end, they are not...

Equities likely to open lower on weak global cues.
MUMBAI: Geo-political tension following the assassination of Pakistan's former Prime Minister and opposition leader Benazir Bhutto is likely to weigh on investor sentiment in the Indian stock market Friday. But the fall could be used as a good buying opportunity. Reacting to the assassination, global equities got...