Business Services Industry
November 2001 Saw Big Economic Plunge in High Point, N.C., Area.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, January, 2002
By Richard Craver, High Point Enterprise, N.C. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Jan. 3--Economic activity in the Triad took the largest plunge of an ongoing nine-month slide in November, according to a monthly analysis of Piedmont trends.
The Triad Business Index, as compiled by University of North Carolina at Greensboro economics professor Don Jud, dropped by 0.6 percent during the month to a 132.1 reading. Jud was not available to elaborate on his report Wednesday.
The index reading hit a 17month low and has fallen 2.8 percent since the official onset of the recession in March.
Of the seven Triad economic indicators that Jud reviews monthly, only a 5.6 percent rise in housing prices in the past year held any relatively...
Most Recent Business Articles
- Multiple criteria evaluation and optimization of transportation systems
- Multi-criteria analysis procedure for sustainable mobility evaluation in urban areas
- A two-leveled multi-objective symbiotic evolutionary algorithm for the hub and spoke location problem
- Multi-criteria analysis for evaluating the impacts of intelligent speed adaptation
- The development of Taiwan arterial traffic-adaptive signal control system and its field test: a Taiwan experience
Most Recent Business Publications
Most Popular Business Articles
- 7 tips for effective listening: productive listening does not occur naturally. It requires hard work and practice - Back To Basics - effective listening is a crucial skill for internal auditors
- FAS 109: a primer for non-accountants - Financial Accounting Standards Board's "Statement 109: Accounting for Income Taxes"
- LIFO vs. FIFO: a return to the basics
- Design a commission plan that drives sales - Sales Commissions
- Too Young to Rent a Car? - 25-years-old the minimum age for car renting - Brief Article
