Meanwhile, Shenzhen, a fast-growing manufacturing city also in Guangdong province, offers the draw of a stock exchange to financial companies.
The data on manufacturing was also encouraging, as the flash PMI Manufacturing Index and the Kansas City Fed Manufacturing Index both reflected steady growth.
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Its closure brought to an end more than a century of chocolate making in York by Terry's, which started manufacturing in the city in 1886.
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In lieu of manufacturing, the city wants to expand tourism and to create a "research-and-design" sector composed of young professionals drawn to the area for its beauty.
The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel carried a graphic description of how the loss of manufacturing in the city has affected the lives of its people, and the city itself.
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U.S. economic data due for release Thursday includes the weekly jobless claims report, the flash U.S. manufacturing PMI, leading economic indicators, the weekly DOE energy stocks report and the Kansas City Fed manufacturing activity report.
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U.S. economic data due for release Thursday includes the weekly jobless claims report and the Kansas City Fed manufacturing survey.
Winds flattened homes and wiped out parts of a big manufacturing plant in the city about 60 miles northwest of Atlanta.
Both the Richmond and Kansas City Fed Manufacturing Survey declined, as did the widely watched flash PMI Manufacturing index, which dropped to 52 from 54.2.
U.S. economic data due for release Thursday includes the weekly jobless claims report, the pending home sales index and the Kansas City Fed manufacturing survey.
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U.S. economic data due for release Thursday includes the weekly jobless claims report, gross domestic product, pending home sales and the Kansas City Fed manufacturing survey.
Seventy-five miles west of there is Toledo, Ohio, where you've been several times, and Toledo has more solar energy manufacturing -- solar manufacturing jobs than any city in America.
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U.S. economic data due for release Thursday includes the weekly jobless claims report, the fourth-quarter GDP estimate, the ISM Chicago business survey, and the Kansas City Fed manufacturing index.
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Take a look at how important the electronics sector is to the Lion City: Manufacturing and services that support it make up 45%, or nearly half, of Singapore's total GDP.
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U.S. economic reports due for release Friday include durable goods orders, personal income and outlays, the Chicago Fed national activity index, the University of Michigan consumer sentiment survey, and the Kansas City Fed manufacturing survey.
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There is a significant batch of U.S. economic data due for release Thursday, which includes the weekly jobless claims report, the third-quarter GDP estimate, corporate profits, the ISM Chicago business survey, and the Kansas City Fed manufacturing survey.
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Others, such as Terry Nichols Clark, of the University of Chicago, stress the pleasures of the city as a reason to live there: entertainment, they say, can replace manufacturing in the post-industrial city, providing both jobs and fun.
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Manufacturing, one of the city's largest employers of the lower-middle class, has disappeared almost altogether.
But the bulk of its manufacturing is in southern Chinese city of Dongguan.
U.S. economic data due for release Thursday includes the weekly jobless claims report and the Kansas City Federal Reserve manufacturing survey.
China is a vast country where manufacturing costs vary widely depending upon city and region.
This is a city that was founded on manufacturing, like a lot of cities in the Midwest.
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More broadly, and this might surprise those who see Los Angeles through the lens of Hollywood and technological business concepts of the mind, Abrahamson reminds the reader that the city used to be a major manufacturing hub.
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In a statement, the group said the key to reviving the city's economy was in the manufacturing sector.
The provincials have made their money doing anything as unexciting as selling livestock and frozen meat or even cheap electronics, whereas the city dwellers have made their money in manufacturing, property and investments.
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Although Detroit has long ceased to rely on car-making, a 1992 business survey by the Census Bureau found about 19% of the city's workers still employed in manufacturing, above the national average of 16.6%.
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