BRIEFING - Private equity firm buys majority stake in Fieldglass
*Madison Dearborn buys majority stake in Fieldglass
*Invests more than $200 million
*Management will retain 'significant' minority stake
*Will help fuel push into Europe and Asia 
 
INSIGHT - Best and worst U.S. metro job markets
*Best: DC, Boston, Minneapolis, Austin, Baltimore
*Worst: Chicago, NY/NJ, California
*None of top 20 markets in Western U.S. 
 
INSIGHT - Locum tenens - NALTO benchmarking survey
*Total locum revenue among respondents declined 4.4% from 1H09 to 1H10
*Trends vary widely by specialty
*The hospitalist specialty is now the largest category in the survey, 13% share of locum revenue 
 
INSIGHT - Information technology staffing growth update
*IT continues strong recovery
*Seven of eight public companies report sequential growth
*Labor pool tightens for database & network admins 

INSIGHT - Engineering/design staffing growth update
*Widespread growth, recovery on track
*Key markets seeing expansion in employment
*But demand expected to be dampened by excess supply