Business and Finance

This area provides up-to-date and interesting developments from the world of business, economics and finance.

A wealth of information is available on topics ranging from stock markets, consumer climate, labor market policies, bond markets, foreign trade and interest rate trends to stock exchange news and economic forecasts.

India’s Cotton Price Support Will Cool U.S., Global Markets

U.S. farmers will see their prices slashed by an average 2.48 percent during the next five years, cutting into an industry that CERI Director Darren Hudson…

RFID Significantly Improves Item-Level Inventory Accuracy

The research, conducted by the RFID Research Center at the University of Arkansas, also demonstrated that the use of an RFID-enabled system could improve…

Consumer Innovators Know Few Boundaries

Understanding consumer innovation across countries, demographics and product categories was the impetus for the large-scale study “Global Consumer…

Supporting Families Can Lead to Healthier, More Productive Workers

Drs. Leslie Hammer of Portland State University and Ellen Ernst Kossek at Michigan State University identified behaviors consistent with being a…

Balanced structural policy: German savings banks from a regional economic perspective

Germany's decentralised savings banks contribute to the stability of the financial market. At this conclusion arrives a current publication by the German…

Battle of the brands: U of M research finds branded components changing industry structures

These days, however, complex industrial equipment is starting to look like NASCAR vehicles festooned with logos. Why does it matter? “When component brands…

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