Falling rupee is the most concerning factor for investors: Rahul Chadha, Mirae Asset Global Investments - Economic Times
28 May 2012, 2:17 am
So, RBI's ability to cut rates is limited. We can see the real impact of high interest rates coming into economy because investment & consumption have slowed down. The spate of bad news also continues. Out of these two headwinds which the market ...

Wright Express Releases Monthly Construction Fuel consumption Index (FCI) Results - Yahoo Finance
27 May 2012, 11:30 am
Wright Express Corporation (WXS), a leading global provider of value-based business payment processing and information management solutions, in collaboration with IHS, the leading global source of information, insight and analytics, today ...

Energy consumption Management and Northland-Willette Join Forces to Offer Savings on Utility Costs and Reductions of Businesses’ Carbon Footprints - Yahoo Finance
27 May 2012, 8:31 am
Shortly after completing the lighting retrofit at Northland-Willette Hydraulics headquarters, Steve Phillips of Energy consumption Management received an invitation from Northland-Willette founder and president Jerry Willette. “We should work ...

Increased tobacco consumption may threaten “demographic bonus” - Jakarta Post
25 May 2012, 5:13 am
Without tougher efforts to control cigarette consumption, Indonesia is likely to fail in achieving “demographic dividends” which may occur during the period of 2020-2030, a demographer says. Abdillah Ahsan, a researcher from the Demographic ...

Goldman Sachs Sees 3% China Copper consumption Growth In 2012 - FOXBusiness
24 May 2012, 5:35 am
LONDON – Goldman Sachs (GS) said Thursday it expects Chinese copper demand growth to stay sluggish until the end of the third quarter and predicts a 3% year-on-year rise in overall consumption for 2012, rising to 8% in 2013. Fourth quarter ...

Alcohol consumption Tied To Cognitive Decline and Dementia in Elderly - Med India
23 May 2012, 6:48 am
Studies in the elderly have linked excessive alcohol consumption to the cognitive decline and dementia. A review paper by Kim JW et al published in Psychiatry Investig 2012;9:8-16 on the association between alcohol consumption and cognition in ...

Spotify: the evolution of music consumption - Brisbane Times
22 May 2012, 6:52 pm
Like the change from vinyl to cassette or CD to MP3, Spotify represents another paradigm shift in the way we consume music. With just a few clicks of the mouse, the music streaming program gives users access to millions of songs at the cost of $6.99 a ...

Japan's Economy Rebounds in First Quarter on consumption - CNBC
16 May 2012, 8:40 pm
Japan's economy bounced back from a year-end lull in the first quarter, powering ahead of other major industrial nations thanks to rebuilding of the tsunami-battered northeast, solid private spending and some improvement in exports. The world's third ...

China’s Next consumption Boom Will Come From the Rural Areas - CNBC
16 May 2012, 5:55 pm
Forget big city lights and slick streets, China’s next consumption surge may have its roots in the rural sector. In a country of 1.3 billion people, half live in villages. That’s 650 million rural Chinese consumers, and according to a report released ...

Report: consumption of Earth's resources unsustainable - CBS News
15 May 2012, 10:25 am
(CBS News) The Earth's population is depleting our planet's natural resources at a rate faster than what is needed for those resources to be replenished, putting increased pressure on biodiversity and the health of ecosystems, according to a new ...