Business Activity

business activity: LONDON/NEW YORK - U.S. factory output rebounded this month but hiring remained sluggish, while business activity across the euro zone and at China's manufacturers slowed, surveys showed on Thursday, according to Reuters. Manufacturing activity and output rebounded in the United States this month, according to the Markit "flash," or preliminary U.S. Manufacturing Purchasing Managers Index, after hitting a one-year low in October and By Jonathan Cable and Steven C. Johnson The data underscored the fragile nature of the global recovery and the difficulties still facing the world's biggest economies. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.