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(Emol) High energy prices, catapulted by a prolonged drought in Chile, could promote alternative energy sources that require high investment costs but offer stable, especially for the mining sector that seeks to leverage the current price boom.

Poor rains associated with the climate phenomenon La Nina has drastically reduced hydroelectric generation in the world’s largest producer of copper and have forced reliance on expensive generating plants to fuel rising inflation risks in its booming economy.

Slowly, the higher energy prices, which have nearly tripled in five years, have led to major mining companies to study the stability of the costs of wind power, solar and geothermal energy.

The latest installment of the study on year-end shopping that takes place annually Motorola Solutions reveals that most retail employees surveyed (55%) believe that this holiday season, buyers had better access to information consumer that the sellers of the stores due to the increasing availability of online purchasing tools and applications that allow mobile phones to compare prices, access to coupons and connect to social networks.

The study reveals that retailers are not investing in technologies that enable them to stay one-step ahead of today’s buyer, so eager to technology, end up hurting themselves the outcome of your business. Almost three in ten (28%) of people who visited a store stopped spending an average of $ 132 due to aborted purchase behaviors associated with customer relations, lack of stock, inadequate care and long lines at the checkout.

As a positive aspect worth noting, the survey reveals that more than four in ten (43%) of those cared for by vendors buyers equipped with mobile handheld computers said that the team managed to improve their shopping experience. The survey also reveals that an overwhelming majority (87%) of retailers believed that buyers could easily find a better option, so consider the customer service assisted by access to real-time information is “more important than ever.”

(FNM) According to statistics released recently by the Ministry of Information Industry and China, the country surpassed South Korea in 2010, in terms of capacity building and portfolio of orders for new ships.

Statistics show that between January and December 2010, Chinese shipyards completed construction of 65.6 million deadweight tons, a figure which represents an increase of 54.6% over the previous year. They also received construction orders for more than 75 million deadweight tons, almost three times the value obtained a year earlier.

Chinese analysts linked to the shipbuilding industry, attributed the rapid growth of activity in recent years, increasing domestic demand associated with growth capacity of the economy.

Chinese plants are mainly shipbuilding Located in the eastern provinces of Kiangs, the most important in relation to activity, “Shanghai, Hewing, and Shandong, and in Guangdong, located south of the country.

The province of Allocate is one of the largest subfield depletions of Spain due to the impact of economic crisis. According to the latest regional accounts data released by the National Statistics Institute (INE), the per capita income of Valencia in 2009 registered a decline of 5.1% over the previous year, the second highest of all country.

Thus, per capita wealth is at the lowest level since 2005 due to the collapse of industry and especially construction, which has been drastically, reduced its activity in the current context.

The per capita income of the Community of 20,295 euros, an 88.4% national average. This is the lowest since at least 1995, the year far in the time stated in the statistics, then, the average wealth of the three provinces reached 95.2% of the entire state. Throughout all this time, Allocate has always been the poorer demarcation of the territory autonomy, except in 1996, and for very little, and in 2008, last year for which provincial data, gross domestic product (GDP) per capita was 19,467 euros, compared with 21,392 in the Community.

The regional figures for 2009 show with all its rawness how industry and construction has collapsed and the impact this has had on the overall economy. The GDP of the industrial activities decreased by 11.8%, while that of the brick industry did nearly another 7%. To this, we must add a cut of almost 20% in tax collection. For his part, resisted agriculture better stake in the crisis, with a much milder decline of 1.7%. In addition, while services remained completely stagnant, its GDP grew by 0.5% irrelevant – only the energy sector recorded a significant increase of 1.9%.

The consequences of this general decline in activity on the labor market was especially hard in construction: if in 2008 this sector accounted for 240,000 people as employees, a year later this number had been cut by 39.2% to 172,400 . In industry, the destruction of wage employment was 15.2%, going from 361,700 to 306,800 people employed. In contrast to this, it is noteworthy that the shift from agriculture to employ 36,300 to 37,600 people as employees, this figure is an example of how the primary sector has been a refuge for some who have lost their pastor of work in other activities far more affected by the crisis. This is also reflected in the increase in hours worked in the field, 4.7% more than in 2008.