Productivity, labor costs climb in 2006
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Productivity grew at a healthy 3 percent annual rate in the final quarter, although this critical measure of U.S. economic vitality for all of 2006 expanded at the slowest pace in nine years.
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WASHINGTON -- Growth in worker productivity slowed sharply in the summer while wages and benefits rose at a rate that was far below a previous estimate.
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The company said it was able to raise prices and improve productivity, which helped offset soaring costs for commodities like grains and cooking oils.
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U.S. producer prices shot up 1.7 percent last month, the biggest gain in nearly 15 years and well above expectations, as energy costs skyrocketed and food prices surged, a government report showed on Tuesday.
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The efficiency of American workers slowed sharply in the spring while a key gauge of labor costs rose at the fastest rate since late 2004.
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The productivity of American workers, the critical component for rising living standards, increased by 4.1 percent in 2004, capping a remarkable three-year period in which worker efficiency climbed at the fastest pace in a half century.
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Manufacturing activity in New York  State factories rose in June to the highest level since March,  with a steep rise in the prices paid component -- a sign of  inflation pressures -- the New York Federal Reserve said on  Thursday.
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Business productivity growth was revised down sharply in the fourth quarter to an annualized 1.6 percent pace, government data on Tuesday showed, suggesting inflation pressures as labor costs soared.
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The economy expanded faster than expected in the last quarter of 2006 and remains strong.
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Homeowners increased their mortgage borrowing by almost $600 billion in the last quarter of 2006, an annual pace of 6.4 percent.
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Business productivity growth was  revised down sharply in the fourth quarter to an annualized 1.6  percent pace, government data on Tuesday showed, suggesting  inflation pressures as labor costs soared.
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The productivity of American workers rebounded at a rapid clip at the start of this year and wages posted a solid gain as well, the government reported Thursday.
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Soaring energy costs and a surge in food prices contributed to a 1.7 percent rise in United States producer prices in October, the Labor Department reported today, the biggest gain in almost 15 years.
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WASHINGTON (CBS.MW) - Productivity in the US nonfarm business sector increased at a 2.5 percent annual rate in the second quarter, revised lower from an earlier estimate of 2.9 percent, the Labor Department estimated Thursday.
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Soaring energy costs and a surge in food prices contributed to a 1.7 percent rise in U.S. producer prices, the biggest gain in almost 15 years.
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Britain's manufacturing output rose during 2006, official figures have shown, representing the best performance since 2004.
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WASHINGTON - Workers' productivity increased at an annual rate of 2.5 percent in the spring, the smallest gain since late 2002, reflecting the economy's slowdown.    The increase in productivity - the amount an employee produces for every hour on the job - was down from an initial estimate of a 2.9 percent growth rate for the April-to-June quarter and marked a deceleration from the 3.7 percent pace posted in the first three months of this year, the Labor Department reported Thursday...