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Crisis : Handle your business folk

While many of us walk around oblivious too the serious economic conundrum our country is in, and remain inattentive to the world around us and feel secure in our little niche with our weekly pay checks, it is really a troubling time in our beloved (...)

16 Mar. 2010 | | Torrance Stephens - All-Mi-T

News

Crude Prices Stagnate Amid Doubts About Global Demand

Crude oil prices tread water for the week as uncertainty about demand continued to weigh on the market. Prices were down slightly on the week, with the benchmark West Texas Intermediate settling on Friday at $81.24 a barrel, compared with $81.50 a week (...)

16 Mar. 2010 | | Staffjam

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The Debt Potato

The past year has been all about shifting debt. The financial crisis drove American homeowners into debt. Homeowners defaulted on their loans (or threatened to), driving the banks into debt. The U.S. government bailed out the banks, shifting debt to the (...)

15 Mar. 2010 | | Staffjam

News

Groundbreaking Developments in Gold and Mineral Exploration

I’m spending a few days in Toronto at the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada annual conference. This is one of the mining industry’s largest events. Thousands of companies descend on the site to promote their projects. (...)

12 Mar. 2010 | | Staffjam

News

A Bull Market Requires a Healthy Consumer Underneath

A year ago this week the stock market hit its nefarious 666 level on the S&P 500. Since that historic day, we have enjoyed a 68% appreciation in equities from their depressionary low. Not only has the bounce caused a chorus of perma-bulls to claim the (...)

12 Mar. 2010 | | Staffjam

News

There Will be No Economic Recovery as the Era of Cheap Oil Comes to an End

When oil crossed $120 a barrel for the first time in May 2008, oil cornucopians knew they were in trouble. Prices had quadrupled in just five years, yet had failed to bring new production online. Regular crude had flatlined around 74 million barrels per (...)

11 Mar. 2010 | | Staffjam

News

Libya: The Energy Player Not to Be Dismissed

On September 1, 2009, Libya lavishly celebrated the 40 years in power of its leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. Once qualified as the mad dog of the Middle East by President Ronald Reagan, Gaddafi has demonstrated a sheer ability to make of his once pariah (...)

10 Mar. 2010 | | Staffjam

International

Forward Thinking Telecoms

Executives from the telecoms industry have just met at the closed-door NGT20 meeting to discuss the vision for the future and key growth markets. 2010 so far has been un-momentous in the telecoms industry, but this is about to change if we are to believe (...)

10 Mar. 2010 | | Emma Naylor

Europe

93% say no : What’s next for the Icelandic government?

93% was the percentage of the Icelandic electorate that said NO to the Icesave bill. So the big question around here now is: What will happen to the government now that the Icesave referendum is over. The opposition of course keeps banging about how (...)

9 Mar. 2010 | | Alda Sigmundsdóttir

Business

U.S. Jobs Data Propels Crude Oil Above $80 a Barrel

Jobs data indicating that U.S. economic recovery might be picking up steam finally pushed crude oil futures decisively over the stubborn $80 a barrel threshold. Nymex’s benchmark West Texas Intermediate settled Friday at $81.50 a barrel, a (...)

9 Mar. 2010 | | Staffjam

Business

Is the Dollar Really Safer Than the Euro?

The European currency has depreciated dramatically against the US dollar in the past few months, falling from over $1.50 on December 1st to $1.35 today. The move has caused many investors to question the viability of the European Union and its currency, (...)

8 Mar. 2010 | | Staffjam

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23 Feb. 2010 | 1 comment | Staffjam

News

Strike at French oil refineries

A strike at French oil refineries lifted prices to a five-week high Friday, with the benchmark West Texas Intermediate finishing the week at $79.81. The French strike threatened to limit U.S. imports of refined products from Europe. An easing of the (...)

22 Feb. 2010 | 2 comments | Staffjam

Business

Fed Chooses to Exit through Eye of Needle

Ben Bernanke is making sure the Fed’s exit strategy goes as easily as a camel can pass through the eye of a needle. Instead of choosing to just sell assets and unwind the amount of securities it holds, the Fed chairman is seeking to be creative once (...)

17 Feb. 2010 | 2 comments | Staffjam

Business

Crude oil prices took a dive on Friday

Blizzard conditions in the U.S. Northeast had propelled West Texas Intermediate prices back up above $75 earlier in the week. But a decline of some 1.5% on Friday pushed prices down near $74 a barrel again. Still, oil was ahead about 4% on the week. Crude (...)

15 Feb. 2010 | 3 comments | Staffjam

International

Eurozone vanity

Latest word is that the eurozone group is holding an emergency video conference this afternoon to discuss Greece’s economic situation and possible ways to go ahead with a much anticipated (read: much feared) bailout of the country. This (...)

11 Feb. 2010 | 3 comments | Blogactiv Team

Business

The U.S. Dollar is back

The U.S. Dollar is Finally Getting Invited Back to the Investment Party The buck is up 6% against the euro in the last three weeks. Notwithstanding problems in Greece and Spain, and the attendant complications for the E.U., this is a pretty good (...)

10 Feb. 2010 | 4 comments | Staffjam

Business

Cloud: Hype, opportunity, or disintermediation

An under pressure telecoms industry will be meet to discuss the pros and cons of the cloud. Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 (...)

9 Feb. 2010 | 3 comments | Emma Naylor

Business

Oil Prices Fall Sharply as General Market Sells Off

After starting the week on a firmer note, oil prices fell sharply toward the end of the week in a general market sell-off as investors sought the dollar as a safe haven amid worries about European Union economies. After starting the week on a firmer note, (...)

8 Feb. 2010 | 3 comments | Staffjam

Business

The Problem With Price Forecasting - Is There a Better Way?

People watching commodities markets love to make predictions. On where prices will be a year, two years or ten years from now. Every brokerage house turns out a slate of forecast prices for oil, copper, sugar and every other hard asset. David Threlkeld (...)

8 Feb. 2010 | 3 comments | Staffjam

News

Is China’s Success Coming at the Expense of it’s Neighbours

During the decade after the 1997 Asian financial crisis, China was generally seen throughout East Asia as a friendly alternative power-center to the American-led Washington-consensus that told countries in trouble they had to force their banks to declare (...)

5 Feb. 2010 | 3 comments | Staffjam

International

Vodafone CIO Speak up for Process Reform

Change isn’t new, but the pace of change in the next ten years in Europe is going to be breathtaking. Following 18 months full of dramatic re-alignment we’re seeing normality return, but it’s a new normal. Normal 0 false (...)

26 Jan. 2010 | 2 comments | Emma Naylor

Business

China tries to slow down its economy

New measures by Chinese authorities to curb bank lending reversed a rally in energy prices early in the week, bringing West Texas Intermediate futures down more than 4% in the second half of the week to below $75 a barrel by Friday. China continued its (...)

25 Jan. 2010 | 2 comments | Staffjam

Politics

Policy Development By Panic

Obama is vociferously attacking “risk taking”, that very human characteristic at the heart of America’s success. American taxpayers should not read anything into today’s stock market supposed reactions to the President’s (...)

22 Jan. 2010 | 2 comments | PacificGatePost

Business

Regulators Seek to Throw Light on Hedge Fund Impact in Energy Trading

For most of us, including lawmakers on Capitol Hill, it seems obvious that when hedge funds buy and sell billions of dollars worth of oil and gas futures, it must be having an impact on energy prices. While hedge funds and other speculative traders would (...)

12 Jan. 2010 | 2 comments | Staffjam

Comment

IT Spend is Back

“2010 will bring increased spending as we begin to see the light at the end of the tunnel, however budgets will continue to remain tight, spending the right money in the right places will make the difference” (...)

12 Jan. 2010 | 1 comment | JF-Online

Comment

GDS Capitalize on Australian Dollar

In the week that The Australian dollar traded nearly at a two-year high against the euro, a world leading media company (GDS International) announced the much-anticipated opening of its Sydney Office. Bolstered by an expanding resource sector and (...)

11 Jan. 2010 | | Emma Naylor

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