Vale spends a lazy $200 million for Belvedere mine, counters count in US jobs count, there are more cars on the roads all over the place, vegie prices tumble in China and other business news.
Us car sales
Business As Usual: Vale spreads its Queensland wings … be wary of higher US jobs figures …
Business As Usual: Business as usual: Jobs ads slow here, while it’s boom time in the US, especially for bankruptcies, jobs and cars …
The boom, it seems, is alive and well in the US despite the fact that bankruptcy filings and car sales are on the up, as are the new job figures, although somewhat skewed by the hiring of census workers … Greece is still a basket case that could get worse byu next year.
Putting the soul back into Motown
Once Detroit was a bustling city fuelled by the automobile industry, now it’s a rusting relic of US greed and failure. Beset with racial tensions and closed factories, can agriculture and the film industry save America’s Motown?
US car sales on highway to hell
The US car industry is in deeper dispair at the start of 2009 than it was at the end of 2008, writes Glenn Dyer.
