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Online Employment Opportunities in France Continue to Decline in January 2009

added: 11-02-2009

The Monster Employment Index France dropped 25 points in January, bringing the Index to its lowest level since September 2005. The decline this month in the Index reflects significantly weaker demand in the engineering; legal; and management and consulting sectors. Year-on-year the Index declined 38 points, or 27 percent.

The Conference Board Leading Economic Index for the U.K. Declines Again

added: 10-02-2009

The Conference Board Leading Economic Index for the U.K. declined 0.6 percent in December to 93.8 (2004 = 100), following a 1.0 percent fall in November and a 1.8 percent drop in October. Volume of expected output, consumer confidence and order book volume continued to make negative contributions to the index.

Recruiting Slowdown Intensifies as Germany and UK Report Sharp Slowdown in Online Job Demand

added: 10-02-2009

The 26-point fall in the Monster Employment Index Europe in January brought about a sixth consecutive month of lower online recruiting activity. The fall was the largest since the inception of the Index and driven by Europe's biggest market Germany, which registered fewer online job vacancies than a year earlier for the first time since the Index's inception in 2004. The UK also saw a significant decrease. Belgium, meanwhile, saw a comparatively moderate decline.

New Study Sounds Warning on R&D Expenditure in Europe

added: 10-02-2009

Europe risks never being able to close its research gap with the United States if it cannot increase R&D investment in the services sector, according to a new study published by the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS).

Fitch: Consumer Downturn Highlights Challenges Facing UK's Non-Food Retailers

added: 10-02-2009

Fitch Ratings says that poor holiday trading results reported by many UK non-food retailers reflect not only the consumer downturn but also longer-term competitive issues and underlying changes in the way people shop. Indeed, for a number of retailers, including Next plc and Kingfisher Plc, weak sales trends preceded the current downturn, dating back as early as 2005.

Economic Survey of the Slovak Republic 2009

added: 10-02-2009

Adoption of the euro on 1 January 2009 marks a significant achievement for the Slovak Republic. This hard won result will bring many benefits but will also pose challenges. Decisive policy action will be needed in a number of areas to maintain high growth in the coming years.

Euro Area MFI Interest Rate Statistics: December 2008

added: 10-02-2009

In December 2008 almost all average MFI interest rates were lower than in the preceding month. Several of the average rates on both new business and outstanding amounts decreased substantially.

Mobile Services Revenue from European Mobile Business Customers to Grow by Over 4% CAGR

added: 10-02-2009

Europe as a region has the highest adoption of mobile services at 121% penetration and this is expected to rise to 135% by 2012. At these high penetrations, overall service revenue growth through the handset is expected to decline. However, ARPU is expected to continue growing among business users.

French Use Internet More than Other Europeans

added: 07-02-2009

While some countries have seen the rate of growth in Internet use tail off, the number of Internet users in France is still climbing steadily. Nielsen Online estimated that the digital media universe in France grew 15% between January and November 2008, from 34.85 million to 40.13 million people.

The Euro Area Bank Lending Survey: January 2009

added: 06-02-2009

The results of the January 2009 bank lending survey indicate that in the fourth quarter of 2008 the net tightening of credit standards for loans to enterprises remained broadly at the high level of the previous quarter. The most important driving forces behind the net tightening continued to be expectations about future economic activity and the industry or firm-specific outlook.

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