The Institute for Supply Management's Chicago-area purchasing managers' index for February posted a surprise increase.

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The euro area manufacturing purchasing managers index reversed most of its decline recorded since April, its cyclical high, rising to 56.5 from 55.6.

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Reducing purchasing from the voluntary sector in the area of adult social care advice.

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Because the toy retailer is a tenant at the Yorktown mall, it was able to provide KKR with insight into the area's household income and consumer-purchasing habits, he said.

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Data out Thursday from the euro-zone purchasing managers' index, produced by Markit, showed that the currency area remains stuck in economic contraction but that the pace of contraction is slowing.

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Brazilians are currently purchasing almost a tenth of the houses and apartments being sold in the Miami area and applications for nonimmigrant U.S. visas from Brazil have increased 234% in the past five years, as reported by Time.

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The one area where the Internet is about to save the university money is in purchasing.

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