Domestic consumption has been picking up, but only in the more predictable areas of transport and communications (cars and electronic goods), leisure and entertainment.
The BLDRS Europe 100 ADR Index Fund tracks the performance of a basket of 100 European-based companies in a range of industries, including banking, electronic equipment, leisure goods, media, oil and gas producers, software and computer services and tobacco.
Finally Raymarine, the debt laden manufacturer of electronic equipment for leisure boats, sailed 1.82p higher to 6.5p on hopes of an auction for the business.
Items include duration of watching TV/videos/DVDs; playing sedentary computer or video games; using internet, emailing or other electronic media for leisure; doing homework; reading a book or magazine not for school; and riding in a car, bus or other vehicle.
We also computed a score for total screen time by summing the weighted responses (with weights corresponding to number of hours: e.g., '30 min per day' was assigned a value of 0.50 hours) on the three relevant items (watching TV/video/DVD; Playing sedentary computer or video games; Using internet/emailing/other electronic media for leisure).
Children spend a considerable portion of their day in screen-based leisure including playing electronic games.
Amazon's Kindle smartly focused on the less-demanding leisure reader, for whom an electronic device requires substantially less behavior change.
The device, says Kangaroom President Jeff Block, is just as suitable for "leisure travelers with lots of electronic gear" as it is for tech-laden road warriors.
Finally, the present study emphasized the association between the use of electronic resources (computer and video games) during leisure time and the presence of BRFCH (insufficiently active, excessive TV watching and daily soft drinks consumption) among adolescents.
