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Economy Watch: Retail Sales Edge Up; Business Spending Flat
Retail sales were up 0.1 percent month over month in April. And business inventories were status quo in March, with several U.S. businesses not bothering to restock inventories.
Pan Pacific Opens $81M Extended-Stay Hotel in Singapore
The 180-key extended-stay luxury hotel is Pan Pacific’s fourth Singapore property.
Asian Boom
(top 50 CBSAs based on projected growth of Asian population) By Terry Munoz The Asian population has grown rapidly over the past decade. Indeed, it has been identified as the fastest-growing racial group in America. What has not received much attention is whether the Asian population will continue growing into the foreseeable future. According to the 2010 U.S. Census, Americans who reported their race as Asian or Asian plus another race grew by 45.6 percent between Census years 2000 and 2010. By contrast, the U.S. population as a whole grew by 9.7 percent. Even more impressive, all U.S. states…
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(employed and unemployed persons by occupation; not seasonally adjusted; numbers in thousands)
Dubious Difference
Value of manufacturers’ new orders; not seasonally adjusted; $ in millions