Thursday brings jobless claims and factory orders, followed Friday by the monthly jobs report.

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It had safety procedures in place, assumed they were being followed on the factory floor and should have discovered that they were not.

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First Solar followed with the factory closure announcement of its own.

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Also out on Monday is construction spending, followed on Tuesday by factory orders.

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Tuesday brings the Case-Shiller Home Price Index and consumer confidence numbers, followed by the ADP Employment Report and factory orders on Wednesday.

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On Tuesday, we get the ISM Non-Manufacturing Index, followed on Wednesday by the ADP Employment Report and factory orders.

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Then came construction, banking and securities broking in the 1980s, followed by overseas expansion (from prawn farming in Australia to a seafood-processing factory in Alaska in the early 1990s) and, finally, financial services.

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Weeks ago Japanese electronics giant Sony announced 650 job cuts as it closes its Bridgend plant quickly followed by news that American firm Wrigley's was to shut the Altoids sweet factory in the town, with the loss of a further 173 jobs.

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