Restaurant Industry Trends - Financial

Economic growth has slowed a bit. Various special factors are weighing on a few sectors. The 'government-aided' recovery likely needs to transition to a 'jobs-aided' pickup - More

The road to fiscal sustainability - More

Chinese businesspeople are more than twice as optimistic about their national economy and their jobs as Americans and Europeans, according to a global business poll conducted by the Marist Institute for Public Opinion. - More

Chinese businesspeople are more than twice as optimistic about their national economy and their jobs as Americans and Europeans, according to a global business poll conducted by the Marist Institute for Public Opinion. - More

Senior finance executives from around the world report growing optimism about economic recovery but are proceeding with caution, investing in categories that will boost growth such as sales and product development while selectively increasing discretionary spending in areas like marketing and technology. At the same time, companies continue to ... - More

As expected, economic activity in March was significantly improved over February’s weather-related sluggishness. Gains in some areas were even stronger than anticipated - More

For most consumer products (CP) executives, the process for planning, budgeting, and forecasting (PBF) is inconvenient at best and irrelevant at worst. Time is spent and resources wasted, on an overly complicated process. For what? - More

In the second installment of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu’s (DTT) 20/20 Global Shift series, global leaders from DTT and its member firms examine three events shaping the current global business agenda-- the Greek debt crisis and its affect on the Eurozone, globalization of regulation, and the ‘green business’ initiative. - More

Delegates to the just-ended World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, found plenty of positive economic signs - but not enough to keep them from wringing their hands. The consensus at the five-day gathering called for strong growth in emerging markets like China, India and Brazil, and poor growth in Japan and much of Europe, with the United St... - More

Rock fish, 401K withdrawals, shopping bags and snowflakes: When deciphering America's economic future, tea leaves come in many forms. - More