The gauge climbed to 89.3, the highest level in 16 months, from 88 in December, the Washington-based organization said today. The advance left the measure close to the 2009 low of 81 reached in March, which was second only to a 1980 reading as the lowest on record. Three of every 10

The gauge climbed to 89.3, the highest level in 16 months, from 88 in December, the Washington-based organization said today. The advance left the measure close to the 2009 low of 81 reached in March, which was second only to a 1980 reading as the lowest on record. “The good news was less

Dun and Bradstreet’s national business expectations survey shows employment expectations for the June quarter have jumped to 5 index points, up from a flat reading for March. The June quarter result, 31 percentage points higher than a year ago, is the strongest rebound in the 22-year history of

* Aussie hovering at $0.8680 having eased from an early $0.8724 high, but above a four-month low of $0.8576 hit on Friday when risk appetite for high yielding currencies vanished amid sovereign debt problems in ,Europe. * Technically the currency was oversold after shedding seven