The Markit eurozone services purchasing managers' index (PMI) rose to 49.2 last month, up from 48.8 in February.
And U.K. data were just as dreary, with the services purchasing managers' index for May also falling short of expectations.
Tablets were preferred for reading, watching videos, researching products and services, purchasing products and services, researching travel arrangements and booking travel arrangements.
As the cost of goods and services rises, purchasing power is diminished if wealth is not increased at an even faster pace.
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By pooling resources, creating an administrative post and purchasing services such as handyman or home care as a group, these villages help people stay in their own homes longer.
In the half-yearly financial report, Securicor chairman Lord Sharman concluded that it was clear there was a weakness within the larger world economies with customers either cutting back on services or delaying purchasing decisions.
At Fiverr we see web designers and graphic artists working with voice over professionals and copywriters, purchasing services from each other in order to craft a better brand, not only learning from one other and profiting from the increased exposure, but more importantly growing as professionals by the exchange of knowledge and the recommendations of fellow vendors.
As we built a multi-functional shared services capability with IT, HR, and Finance, over time we continued to look for other services such as facilities, purchasing, sales order management, meetings, card services, and fleet management to bring under the umbrella to deliver bottom line saving to the corporation.
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Nasa would like to be purchasing crew services from one or more companies by 2017.
But the act of shopping, by which I mean individuals making price-feature-value tradeoffs for the products and services they are considering purchasing, is absolutely fundamental to a healthy economy.
The letter argues against a proposal to let the U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary use the purchasing power of Medicare to negotiate with pharmaceutical companies for lower prices on prescription drugs used by Medicare patients through the Part D program.
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The saver can then do everyone else a favor by refraining from purchasing goods and services and prices rise at a slower rate.
The expansion looks set to continue, according to this week's purchasing managers' services index, which recorded a sharp increase in business activity in January.
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However, we depend on our clients making purchasing decisions about services, and uncertainty in the economy often causes a slowdown in taking decisions about the use of outside consultants.
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And the Indian CEOs who are hiring those consumers are giving them the pay that they can use to express that confidence in the form of purchasing goods and services.
And recently, the company announced additional layoffs to the 800 already--about 1, 250 more at RBS Citizens over the next couple of years, mostly in the bank's technology, purchasing and property services division.
Bernanke referred to the Federal Reserve's quantitative easing program to buy Treasury securities as a successful measure in stimulating long-term interest rates and raising the prices of equities, while also emphasizing that the practice does not really constitute government spending, as the Fed is not purchasing goods and services.
Employees are bringing their own devices to work and departments are purchasing cloud-based services.
Final consumption expenditures of households include outlays for purchasing consumer goods and services from all trading enterprises and city markets, non-organised trade (street vendors), from public service, passenger transport, communications establishments, hotels, commercial Institutions of culture, health care and education.
And the big private services sector is also in dire straits: purchasing managers reported a record contraction in activity, new business and employment in November.
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After all, if the purchasing managers are ordering goods and services, or not, it says a lot about what the executive suite thinks is going to happen in the next few months.
More than a quarter of all adults are now purchasing downloads or using legal streaming services, and in the third quarter of 2012, 51% of UK record label revenue came from digital sales.
Another reason not to overdo the gloom is that services activity rose in June according to the monthly purchasing managers' survey.
The composite purchasing managers' index for the manufacturing and services industries rose to 48.3 in December from 47.0 in November.
The figures followed data released earlier this week by the Chartered Institute for Purchasing and Supply which suggested that the UK services sector grew at its slowest rate in nearly five years in April.
Consumers and business purchasing agents can now easily compare prices of products and services proffered by merchants and suppliers and apply pressure for more efficiency and lower costs.
This month's report from purchasing managers, for example, revealed a sharp deceleration in services, for so long the engine of the economy.
The composite purchasing-managers' index (PMI), which covers services as well as manufacturing, inched up in June but at 46.4 remained well below the 50 level that separates expansion from contraction.
The potential market for your products or services can be defined as the pool of consumers or businesses who would consider purchasing them.
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