The Teranet — National Bank release comes just days after a somewhat more
upbeat report from Royal LePage, which posited that lousy weather has kept buyers inside in the first quarter of the year.
U.S. crude oil futures, meanwhile, are at a four - month high of $ 38.95 a barrel after
an upbeat report from the the International Energy Agency (more below).
The nation's schools received
an upbeat report card in math Thursday, but the bad news continued for California as its fourth - graders lagged behind their peers in 40 states and came out ahead of only those in Mississippi.
On the one hand, tech websites released
some upbeat reports about Amazon's third quarter net sales being up nearly 44 %, spurred on possibly by excitement over the Kindle family of devices, specifically the pre-orders of the upcoming Kindle Fire tablet.
Citing record attendance for its professional program, the Shanghai Children's Book Fair offers
an upbeat report amid some concerns voiced by UK publishers.
Another upbeat report was the U.K.'s September trade report since it showed that the U.K.'s total trade deficit fell to # 2.75 billion from # 3.46 billion.
A recent post, «Growth on a Finite Planet — So Far, So Good,» describing
an upbeat report on human development from the United Nations, has elicited a notable response from Lou Gold, an American living near Rio Branco, the capital of Acre, the Brazilian state in the western reaches of the Amazon rain forest where I spent several months back in 1989 reporting on the life and murder of Chico Mendes.
The Climate Group just released
an upbeat report, China's Clean Revolution, which lauds China for trailing only Germany in 2007 for renewable energy investments (US$ 12 billion vs. $ 14 billion), for leading the world in installed generating capacity of renewable energy at 152 GW by the end of 2007, and for being a leading manufacturer across various low carbon technologies.
Fed Chair Janet Yellen offered
an upbeat report about a strengthening economy, while still acknowledging the sluggish first half of the year.