The United States Marine Corps has acquired two all-electric Smith Newton trucks from the Smith Electric Vehicles US Corporation. This acquisition has made the Unites States Marine Corp the first military organization to order Smith Newtons using the Government Services Administration (GSA) schedule. The GSA is a list of approved suppliers to Federal government agencies.… Continue Reading
Clearly it’s not just Japan that has been impacted by the country’s recent disaster. It’s going to have an impact throughout the world, especially in monetary matters. For example, investors and financiers in Australia are suffering too. It has been reported that shares in Australia encountered their “biggest one-day fall in none months… Continue Reading
Again with the crisis in the Middle East; again with the impact this is having on the global economy vis-à-vis oil prices. But apparently all might not be lost. Today in America, it might actually be worth your while to shop around before you pump up your gas. Yet the naysayers aren’t convinced. They are… Continue Reading
February’s earthquake certainly didn’t do any favors for New Zealand’s economy. The country’s central bank “sliced half a percentage point of its benchmark interest rate in an effort to limit the short term economic impact” of Christchurch’s quake. Reconstruction costs have been estimated at $11 billion, with a prediction that economic growth will be stunted… Continue Reading
It seems it’s no longer humans and cats who are being DNA tested these days. There is now the possibility for testing the DNA of diamonds, resulting in accruing details of “diamond diagrams, plotting of inclusions, photographs (high resolution images), AGS parameters and many more, along with generating consumer confidence in the product that consumers… Continue Reading
An article in today’s ‘Times of Malta’ – quite fitting for International Women’s Day – is showing how the women of Malta are quite capable of succeeding unaided. An EU suggestion of special treatment of women has been rejected by the businesswomen of Malta, who believe that “gender imbalance at work should be addressed by… Continue Reading
It’s great that the global economy is benefiting from economic reform, but what will this mean for developing countries, such as Egypt? According to World Bank Officials, it might spell bad news. CFO of the World Bank Vincenzo La Via claimed that “solutions for advanced economies are not necessarily a good fit for developing countries.” … Continue Reading
Charlie Sheen sure knows how to fight tough when it comes to money. When WBTV canceled his show’s eighth season, Sheen wasn’t willing to take it lying down. Indeed, today it seems as though Sheen will be winning his case and possibly resuming work, bringing home over #1.2 million per episode. Litigator Martin Gold who… Continue Reading
There are various different types of investment portfolio assets, including: bonds; future contracts; gold certificates; real estate; stocks and warrants. An investor makes a credit to an institution (a bond); one uses a future contract for the purchase or sale of an “underlying instrument” at a set rate but the date is not set for… Continue Reading
Stocks are not very difficult to understand, even for the uninitiated financial layman. Basically, an organization will sell stocks so that they can increase their revenue which will be used for their business. So if you buy stocks, you are helping out a business (and hopefully yourself as when the stocks increase, so will your… Continue Reading