The staffing firm Robert Half Technology has created tips for retaining your top performers during 2010.A recent survey by Robert Half found that 43 percent of chief information officers said retaining existing workers will be their top priority in 2010.

The world's largest market has always determined the type of vehicles we drove and for more than 50 years America was king of the road.

Industry veterans recall those happy days of glistening chrome, winged chariots and high horsepower, but as Europe, Japan and South Korea joined the US as cradles of mass production, cars became more influenced by accountants than design engineers.

"China's economic fundamentals mean that the yuan should strengthen," Beijing-based Wang told Bloomberg. "The central bank will find it harder to manage liquidity and inflation when a flood of speculative funds returns, betting on the yuan's appreciation."