Unemployment Insurance Weekly Claims Report, January 19, 2012: “In the week ending January 14, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 352,000, a decrease of 50,000 from the previous week’s revised figure of 402,000. The 4-week moving average was 379,000, a decrease of 3,500 from the previous week’s revised average of 382,500. The advance seasonally adjusted insured unemployment rate was 2.7 percent for the week ending January 7, a decrease of 0.2 percentage point from the prior week’s unrevised rate. The advance number for seasonally adjusted insured unemployment during the week ending January 7, was 3,432,000, a decrease of 215,000 from the preceding week’s revised level of 3,647,000. The 4-week moving average was 3,576,250, a decrease of 34,000 from the preceding week’s revised average of 3,610,250.”
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Bizjournals – Men hold educational advantage in 485 markets, women in 431
“Bizjournals On Numbers compared the educational attainment of men and women in 942 metropolitan and micropolitan areas, using data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2010 American Community Survey. The percentage of men possessing four-year college degrees is higher than the comparable percentage of women in 485 markets. But women hold the educational edge in 431… Continue Reading
DOD Joint Operational Access Concept
DOD Joint Operational Access Concept (JOAC) News release: “Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: “The [concept] outlines how we will confront emerging anti-access/area denial [referred to by military members as A2/AD] threats by state and non-state enemies across the globe,” the chairman noted in his blog…A2/AD is not new,… Continue Reading
Lessons from Medicare's Demonstration Projects on Disease Management, Care Coordination, and Value-Based Payment
Lessons from Medicare’s Demonstration Projects on Disease Management, Care Coordination, and Value-Based Payment – January 18, 2012. “In the past two decades, Medicare has conducted two broad categories of demonstrations aimed at enhancing the quality of health care and improving the efficiency of health care delivery in its fee-for-service program: Disease management and care coordination… Continue Reading
FDIC Board Proposes Stress Testing Regulation for Large Banks
News release:”The FDIC today approved a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPR) that would require certain large insured depository institutions to conduct annual capital-adequacy stress tests. The proposal, to implement section 165(i)(2) of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, would apply to FDIC-insured state nonmember banks and FDIC-insured state-chartered savings associations with total… Continue Reading
OECD unemployment rate stable at 8.2% in November 2011, but national rates diverge
News release: “The OECD area unemployment rate was stable at 8.2% in November 2011, unchanged since August. The rate has hovered at this level since January 2011. However, stability at the aggregate level masks different national situations. The Euro areas unemployment rate remained at 10.3% in November the highest rate recorded since the start… Continue Reading
National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education – Workforce Framework
“The NICE Cybersecurity Workforce Framework offers a working taxonomy and common lexicon that can be overlaid onto any organization’s existing occupational structure. Although much work has gone into this framework, we need to ensure that it can be adopted and used across the nation. We are actively seeking to refine this framework with input from… Continue Reading
DOE provides detailed onshore wind resource map
“Wind Powering America (a DOE program initiative) publishes an onshore wind resource map for the United States, at 80 meters above ground and with resolution down to 2.5 meters. This map was updated in March 2010, the first comprehensive update of U.S. wind energy potential since 1993. The 2010 update to the wind resource map… Continue Reading
2012 US GAAP Financial Reporting Taxonomy Now Available
“The 2012 Taxonomy contains updates for accounting standards and other improvements since the 2011 Taxonomy as used by issuers filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The Financial Accounting Standards Board issued proposed improvements to the taxonomy in the fall of 2011, allowing users of the taxonomy to provide feedback on the updates… Continue Reading
European Association of CCP Clearing Houses Paper on Best Practices for CCP Stress Testing
EACH Paper on best Practices for CCP Stress Testing, November 1, 2011 “The main aim of this paper is to make the appropriate distinction between stress testing performed by CCPs [European central counterparty clearing houses] and those by banking institutions. In addition to this, the paper attempts to provide a compilation of existing best practices… Continue Reading
Proposed EU Commission Financial Transaction Tax Impact Analysis on Foreign Exchange Markets
Proposed EU Commission Financial Transaction Tax Impact Analysis on Foreign Exchange Markets. Oliver Wyman, January 2012: “The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the impact of the proposed EU Financial Transaction Tax on European FX markets. We aim to quantify the impacts of the FTT on FX cash and derivative markets, both in terms… Continue Reading
