Sixty percent of financial executives interviewed by IBM favored outsourcing non-core activities, up from just 30 percent in previous years.
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Earlier this month, the company released a bit of bad news in its half-year financial report, saying that core earnings fell 39 percent as it held just one auction during the period compared with two in the prior year.
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Over that period sales from the Core Zone represented approximately 6 percent of world rough diamond supply by value.
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The current level of core deposits could support ten percent more loans and still be at a very conservative ratio.
Despite its better-than-expected results, PepsiCo stood by its forecast that core profit would grow 7 percent for the full year, following a year in which it slashed costs and spent more on marketing its biggest brands.
Revenue generated per household was 16 percent higher in the accounts at banks that provided an online brokerage, the survey found, and the revenues generated per million dollars of core retail deposits were 33 percent higher than their peers that did not offer online investment services.
Excluding food and energy costs, the core PPI rose 0.1 percent, less than economists expected.
Is there anything in business more valuable than 92 percent of the market fiercely committed to your core product?
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The Labor Department is reporting that the consumer prices were little changed in June, with core CPI up 0.2 percent, excluding food and energy.
Core prices were generally stable, with the average of the three core measures rising 0.42 percent on the month (or 5.60 percent on the year).
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Just as we heard, there's about a 20 percent improvement -- most other single-core Atom N450 netbooks score around 1, 200 on PCMark05, while the Mini 5103 notched a 1, 866.
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But the whole thing, Apple Core and The Beatles are one million percent behind this thing.
Yep, Macworld could only get a 10 percent bump on the new 2.16GHz Intel Core 2 Duo MBP (just like those Core 2 Duo iMacs) when compared to the original 2.16GHz Intel Core Duo MBP running the Speedmark benchmark.
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They expect core inflation to rise to 3.2 percent in 2013 from 2.7 percent.
November core inflation came in at 0.60 percent on the month, above consensus and Nomura estimates (0.5 percent).
Almost one-quarter of respondents say their organization already runs all core IT services on the cloud (10 percent) or is in transition to do so (13 percent).
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Ninety-four percent of executives believe that top management needs additional training in core communications disciplines.
Inflation in Brazil, by both headline and core measures, is now above 5.5 percent and Nomura expects it to rise towards 6 percent in 2013.
Revenue for core over-the-counter brands climbed 9.3 percent in the quarter.
Fears that 2013 scores will plummet are based partly on the example of Kentucky, where 30 percent fewer students were labeled proficient based on last year's Common Core-aligned tests.
The result: 81 percent of the most critical measures related to student achievement in the urban core of the region are moving in the right direction, from kindergarten readiness to completing some form of college.
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We're not really sure how exactly Apple measured the new Core 2 Duo MacBook Pros in order to get a purported 39 percent speed increase from the previous models, but then again, that's what we depend upon the free and independent press for.
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Core-Mark Holding (CORE) announced that profit in the fourth quarter increased by more than 86 percent, helped by recent acquisitions.
For example, core CPI inflation over the twelve months ending in February was 2.7 percent, up from 2.1 percent a year earlier.
The semiconductor industry, Intel (nasdaq: INTC - news - people )'s core business, faced similar challenges in the 1980s, when it began its drop from 90 percent to 40 percent of the world market, Grove said, before aggressive trade and other U.S. policies helped it recover and stabilize at about 50 percent.
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