Archive for March 16th, 2012
Latin-American should use the bonanza to make fundamental reforms, according to the ALADI
The secretary general of the Latin American Integration Association (ALADI), Carlos Alvarez, said today that Latin America is “the best time in many years” in the economic and must use it to have a strategy to solve its structural problems. “It’s the best time for many years in Latin America,” said Alvarez, at the beginning [...]
The CPI in the United States increased 0.4 percent in February
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) of United States rose 0.4 percent in February, its highest rate in ten months, in large part by the upward pressure of gasoline, has been reported today the Labor Department. Prices of gasoline, a major concern of Americans for their impact on the family economy, rose 6 percent in February [...]
Credit: How much is too much?
The responsibility not to reach levels of indebtedness is also yours. Some tips to make responsible use of their credit levels. Consumer credit is a party. With this, the household debt as a percentage of disposable income is reaching the levels of the late nineties. In addition, banks have started to tighten their lending policies [...]
What will you do in the next 5 years?
In five years is 260 weeks, 1,825 days and 2’333 .000 minutes. What are your goals at this time? What you really want to achieve in that period? According to a study by Professor Emeritus, Virginia Tech, Dave Kohl, people usually write their goals earn an average of nine times throughout his life that those [...]
Spain Economy In Crisis
In announcing this year that will not fulfill its commitments to reduce the fiscal deficit, Spain sets a bad precedent among its neighbors. Fasten the belt will become increasingly difficult. When Europeans still do not fully process the agreement which reduced the debt of her Greek and banish the specter of a collapse of the [...]
Cisco will buy a digital solutions provider NDS for 5,000 million…
Cisco Systems, the largest manufacturer of computer networking technology to the world, today announced an agreement to purchase the solution provider for content creators and television NDS by about 5,000 million dollars. NDS, founded in Israel and based in London, is owned by British private equity fund Permira and media group News Corporation of Rupert [...]
Iceland returns to the IMF ahead of a fifth of their rescue
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) announced today that Iceland returned a year ahead of schedule one-fifth of their rescue, adopted in 2008 amounting to 2,150 million dollars. The payment announced today, totaling 443.4 million dollars, was held on March 12 but, according to agreements with the Fund, Iceland had until 2013. Together with the previous [...]
Wall Street Continues Its Advance
Wall Street continued today with its unstoppable advance and got the Dow Jones the main indicator, with a seven-session upward and the S & P 500 was made with the symbolic dimension of the 1,400 mark for the first time since the fall of Lehman Brothers in 2008. The encouraging data on the U.S. labor [...]
Internet Providers Launched A Plan Against Illegal Downloads
Several major ISPs in the United States will be implemented from next summer a plan to combat piracy on the net that includes measures “coercion” against the users to stop illegal downloads of content protected by copyright. This was confirmed by a spokesman for the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), who stated that the [...]
Geithner warns that the U.S. recovery still weak and vulnerable
The secretary of the U.S. Treasury, Timothy Geithner, recalled today that the economic recovery is still weak and vulnerable to external problems, despite reforms that have taken adequate. In a speech to the Economic Club of New York, Geithner said the “confidence, badly damaged by the crisis, is more fragile and can be damaged disproportionately [...]
