While the enterprise router market will benefit most directly from expanding budgets at large companies, a recent report from Infonetics Research suggest that improvement in IT spending is permeating the service provider market (including core and edge routers) as well.

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It was a mixed day for the markets with stocks traded mostly flat, but drifting lower later in the day, as the latest jobless numbers suggest an improvement in the employment picture, but that was offset by disappointing numbers from the housing sector.

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Tests running at two big sawmills, in Europe and in America, suggest that the improvement in yield can run from 2% to 18% for different kinds of tree, with an average gain of 10% in the value of the timber produced from a log.

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The sub-indices suggest some stabilization in industrial activity and improvement in domestic demand, but a continued deteriorating external outlook.

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Since it may be disease-modifying, many physicians suggest it be continued even when there is no clinical improvement.

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Even for all the debate, there is little evidence to suggest any risk of an imminent slowdown in the asset purchases without a commensurate improvement in economic conditions.

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