Core private-sector machine orders - seen as a key indicator of corporate investment - were down by 4% from 2006.
Even before tackling this core problem, the citizen sector is growing jobs at two and a half to three times the rate of the rest of the economy in advanced countries.
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He said that free current accounts provided a barrier to entry into the UK retail banking sector because this core product "is usually given away for free", prompting banks to try to make profits by pushing other products.
He suggested reorganising the agency's core functions and putting the private sector in charge of some.
His 18 funds include 9 U.S. sector funds and the Icon Core Equity Fund.
There's not enough creative sector-weighting and no core group of Coca-Cola-like stocks that are big enough positions to carry the fund over the longer cycle.
He added that the airfield's history was "core to our plan" and the heritage sector was proving to be resilient in the current economic climate.
It's a lot of work for a sector that shouldn't be the core portion of any investor's portfolio.
On Dexia, it was only on July 15 that the European Banking Authority disclosed that this retail and public-sector finance bank would have a ratio of core Tier One capital to assets of 10.4%, even after incurring notional losses from harsh simulated financial and economic conditions.
Although mass retailers are resorting to deep discounts, the luxury sector has been able to restore some of its core, full-price selling, which all but disappeared in the recession, said Mr. Sadove, the Saks CEO.
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Mr Johnston's commitments included reducing crime and anti-social disorder, to find solutions to local problems, place a greater focus on the needs of victims rather than offenders and ensure core policing functions continued to be carried out by police rather than the private sector.
Last year, a leading US-based sector-focused firm used deal diagnostics to sharpen the definition of its investment core and assess opportunities to grow beyond it.
Despite a shortage of private sector jobs, there are booming education and health care sectors in the city, providing a core population of highly educated citizens.
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While a few firms have come unstuck over drugs faltering in clinical trials, a solid core of big, successful firms such as Celltech and Shire is reassuring investors that Britain's biotechnology sector is a better long-term bet than, say, Germany's less mature, and less profitable, industry.
Other competitors in the services sector include: Nash-Finch Company (NAFC), Spartan Stores (SPTN), and Core-Mark Holding Company, Inc. (CORE).
If your core portfolio is already in place, you can augment your core holdings with more specialized ETFs, which provide entry into a wide array of small-cap, sector, commodity, international, emerging-market and other investing opportunities.
The president-elect of the Police Superintendents' Association of England and Wales, Irene Curtis, has told me that while "outsourcing of policing services has been done by the private sector for years", she's concerned as to "where the line is drawn with core police services and where those services are provided by a company that is not under the complete control of the chief constable".
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