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DESPITE 40 per cent of its business coming from finance and insurance firms, Rudolf van Megen, founder and chief executive of software testing firm SQS, is quietly confident that he can ride out the economic downturn.
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GENERAL ELECTRIC (GE) has warned that turmoil in global credit markets could drive profit down as much as 12 per cent this year, confirming Wall Street’s fears about the vulnerability of the company’s finance arm.
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This book examines the subject of Development Finance, or more specifically how financial systems can help or hinder the process of human development. As an expert in this field, Stephen Spratt reviews the components of the domestic and …
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I am hosting the carnival of personal finance next week! So, I was looking for things to do this weekend, and this totally just fell in my lap! I will be hosting the carnival of personal finance next week. Fun! …
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The answer is revealed by the fact that the finance, insurance and real estate (FIRE) industries that collectively are at the center of the current crisis are the single largest sector–by far–of all the major economic and interest …
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Easy qualifying for car and truck financing is a necessity if you have bad credit. There are many times that your car and/or truck will break down for a major repair over the course of its lifetime. Either you don’t have any or enough money to fix the problem and/or your credit doesn’t permit you to make this major repair.
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Mayor Nutter yesterday announced the creation of a task force that will study fixes to be made to the city’s five-year-old campaign-finance law, and review city ethics policies as well.
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Germany’s finance chief says the U.S. will lose its dominant role in world finance as a result of the meltdown on Wall Street. Many analysts say that won’t happen soon. But which countries are waiting in the wings?
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Sept. 25 (Bloomberg) — German Finance Minister Peer Steinbrueck said the U.S. will lose its position as the world’s undisputed financial “superpower” and called for a ban on speculative short-selling to help restore the global economy.
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Sept. 25 (Bloomberg) — Sigma Finance Corp., the $28 billion investment company run by London-based asset manager Gordian Knot Ltd., had ratings on its debt placed under review for new downgrades by Standard & Poor’s.
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