(Reuters) - Toys R Us Inc (TOYS.N) said it will hire 45,000 seasonal employees across the United States to cope with the upcoming holiday season.
Toys R Us, which hired about 40,000 seasonal workers last year, said it retained about 15 percent of the holiday workforce after the season ended.
The retailer said the hiring at its stores will begin this week and would continue through December. Positions offered include managerial roles and sales associates.
(Reporting by Balaji Sridharan in Bangalore; Editing by David Holmes)
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Monday, September 17, 2012
Apple closes at a record $699.78
FORTUNE -- Apple (AAPL) share price shot right up to a record $699.78. They said pre-orders of its iPhone 5 topped 2 million units in one day, more than double the sales record set by the previous model of the device.
Although the stock is up nearly 75% over the past 12 months, the company is still relatively cheap by the standards of the S&P 500.
Wednesday, September 5, 2012
European markets rise in wake of mixed Bund auction
PARIS, Sept 5 - Around midday on Wednesday the European stocks were up, as low demand at a Bund auction signalled that investor appetite for safe-haven assets is drying up, a bullish sign for equities.
Germany sold 3.61 billion euros of new 10-year government bonds on Tuesday, drawing bids worth less than the amount on offer. That sparked a rally in Germany's DAX stock index , up 0.6 percent at 1030 GMT.
The FTSEurofirst 300 index of top European shares was up 0.2 percent at 1,081.75 points while the euro zone's blue chip Euro STOXX 50 index was up 0.4 percent at 2,445.21, reversing gains made in early trading, and testing its 20-day moving average.
Stocks have also been buoyed by expectations of strong new measures from the European Central Bank on Thursday to fight the debt crisis.
Markets are looking for the ECB to unveil a plan to buy bonds from Spain and Italy to lower the two countries' borrowing costs and ease the debt crisis, although it may outline rather than detail its strategy on Thursday, keeping the pressure on governments to bring their deficits and debts under control.
Gains were limited on Wednesday, however, by a recent raft of grim macro data, including figures on Wednesday showing the contraction that began in the more vulnerable of the bloc's 17 economies is now taking hold even in the largest and strongest, Germany.
Around Europe, the UK's FTSE 100 index was flat, France's CAC 40 up 0.2 percent, and Spain's IBEX up 0.3 percent.
Shares in BP sank 4.2 percent, the biggest loser among Europe's blue chips, after the U.S. Justice Department ramped up its rhetoric against the oil major for the massive 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, describing in new court papers examples of what it called "gross negligence and wilful misconduct.
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Germany sold 3.61 billion euros of new 10-year government bonds on Tuesday, drawing bids worth less than the amount on offer. That sparked a rally in Germany's DAX stock index , up 0.6 percent at 1030 GMT.
The FTSEurofirst 300 index of top European shares was up 0.2 percent at 1,081.75 points while the euro zone's blue chip Euro STOXX 50 index was up 0.4 percent at 2,445.21, reversing gains made in early trading, and testing its 20-day moving average.
Stocks have also been buoyed by expectations of strong new measures from the European Central Bank on Thursday to fight the debt crisis.
Markets are looking for the ECB to unveil a plan to buy bonds from Spain and Italy to lower the two countries' borrowing costs and ease the debt crisis, although it may outline rather than detail its strategy on Thursday, keeping the pressure on governments to bring their deficits and debts under control.
Gains were limited on Wednesday, however, by a recent raft of grim macro data, including figures on Wednesday showing the contraction that began in the more vulnerable of the bloc's 17 economies is now taking hold even in the largest and strongest, Germany.
Around Europe, the UK's FTSE 100 index was flat, France's CAC 40 up 0.2 percent, and Spain's IBEX up 0.3 percent.
Shares in BP sank 4.2 percent, the biggest loser among Europe's blue chips, after the U.S. Justice Department ramped up its rhetoric against the oil major for the massive 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, describing in new court papers examples of what it called "gross negligence and wilful misconduct.
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