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Practical Skills for The Practical Executive
The ability to communicate and negotiate effectively can set a successful executive apart from a struggling executive. Every businessperson dedicated to achieving real success in his or her career must master business communication skills. Unfortunately, very few individuals are born with these skills. Instead of waiting to learn them by trial and error, motivated executives [...]
Ariel Way Executes Payoff Agreement with YA Global
A company that requires a large capital expenditure in order to proceed with its business will have to take somewhat unusual roads to secure the amount financing they require. To be specific, I am referring to a new or relatively new company or business with a proven track record in their product or a solid [...]
We’ll Bet Your Life
There was considerable time spent on ‘dead peasant insurance’ in the movie ‘Capitalism: A Love Story’ by investigative journalist and filmmaker Michael Moore. To recap, ‘dead peasant’ insurance is a situation where a company secretly takes out life insurance policies on those individuals that it can define as at risk, so if in the unfortunate [...]
Another Look at Warren Buffet’s Railroad Investments
The purchase of Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad was initially met with reservations by the investing community, however this specific investment was highlighted in Berkshire Hathaway’s Annual Letter to investors and related to Warren Buffet’s strong position on the growth of the US economy. The statement highlights the already proven fruits of the investment and [...]
Middle East Turmoil Results in Flight to Quality
It was announced today that demand for US Treasury 10-year notes reached its highest level in almost a month as the continuing unrest in Libya and other Middle East countries drove investors to the safety of the government issued debt. The conscious on the street is that the current market will stay in pretty much [...]
Government Sponsored Home Ownership
Today it was announced that on a seasonally adjusted basis the average home price on a national level is lower than it was in the first quarter of 2009. January to March 2009 being the previous low for this particular way of measure. In fact, some major markets such as New York and Chicago have [...]
Financial Times – US homepage- Chinese activist ends odyssey in USDeparture of Chen and his family brings to an end the worst diplomatic spat between Beijing and Washington in over a decade […]
- G8 splits over stimulus versus austerityMerkel resists efforts by other G8 leaders to push eurozone to do more to stimulate growth […]
- Murdoch quashes talk of UK paper spin-offNews Corp’s chief has moved to quash talk about selling its tainted UK newspaper business, saying publishing would remain ‘a core component’ […]
- Alibaba nears buyback deal with YahooThe deal under discussion would involve the US group selling about $7bn of its stake in the Chinese ecommerce group, valuing Alibaba at $35bn […]
- Faltering start for the new FacebookGlitches delayed the opening of trading and underwriters had to intervene to prevent the group’s shares falling below the $38 price set on Thursday […]
- Moderate leads field among Egypt’s expatriatesOf 38,000 ballots cast by Egyptian expatriates in a dozen diplomatic outposts, Dr Aboul Fotouh received nearly 30 per cent of the votes […]
- Resource stocks mirror global economyDecline of groups involved in supplying essential raw materials for business show how investors really feel about the global economy’s direction […]
- China linked to ‘economic espionage’The Pentagon report says the country will continue to be an ‘aggressive and capable’ collector of sensitive US technological information […]
- Obama ground forces braced for air warPresident’s team says massive grassroots campaign will be needed to withstand bombardment of negative attack ads from Romney and super-Pacs […]
- Spain hit by rise in bad bank loansValue of bad loans held by banking sector increased a third during the past year to €148bn and accounted for 8.4% of their entire loan portfolios […]
- Chinese activist ends odyssey in US
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