<h3>Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friends</h3> If anyone knows that fact it’s Tiffany…as in Diamond-buff Tiffany. The company just publicized their staggeringly juicy figures for fourth quarter earnings of $181.2 million ($1.41 per share) which is quite a step-up from the same quarter of last year which was $140.4 million ($1.10 per share). Despite… Continue Reading
Agribusiness in Ukraine is a key, rapidly growing industry. Each year, hundreds of leading global industry participants gather at the Intercontinental Hotel in Kyiv for a conference, “Agribusiness in Ukraine” to discuss relevant strategic issues facing the ongoing development this dynamic economic sector in Ukraine, which is extensively blessed with some of the most fertile… Continue Reading
Brits Not Getting British Jobs? According to official figures, a staggering 80 percent plus of jobs were given to individuals not born in Britain. Last year, figures were 173,000 for those getting jobs not born and bred in the country with only 39,000 (less than one in five) being given to the Brits. Foreign Immigration… Continue Reading
Could it really be true? Is it possible that popular computer-giant company Apple is actually experiencing dissatisfied customers? Well, yes. And no. Yes and no to be exact. The only reason Apple and dissatisfied customers may be used in the same sentence is because their latest product – the iPad 2 – isn’t being produced… Continue Reading
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
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
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
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