They offer these solutions to customers in the financial, retail, consumer goods, pharmaceutical, publishing, public as well as legal sectors.

The company was ranked second in the industrial goods sector and 47th among America's largest companies.

Some of this weakening in the goods- producing sector, however, appeared to reflect seasonal aberrations.

Much of the weakness in manufacturing had been concentrated in the durable goods sector.

Much of the manufacturing weakness was concentrated in the durable goods sector, where computer and auto equipment orders fell sharply.

In this context, foreigners have the role to choose only the useful tradable goods sectors.

"Indeed, inflation in the goods sector is hard to find, and the price-restraining impact from the Asian crisis has yet to be felt," he said.

But the inflation problem is in the service sector, not the goods sector.

This will contribute to a rapid return to growth in the goods sector.

The tradeable goods sector remains under pressure in the United States and elsewhere.