Last year was great for rapid evolvement in online businesses and automation. Now more than ever, consumers are connected with their favorite brands with a new series of internet and social media trends forming. However, economists are now coming to a consensus that in 2017, the global economy will show signs of slowing down for...
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Has Trump been successful in generating hopes of financial growth in the US?
President Trump’s election was followed by the promise of a significant fiscal stimulus and hopes (not promises) of income-tax cuts. The financial outlook throughout December has remained consistently positive till now. An overall positive financial outlook prevails Marketers are actually seeing a very rosy picture – as far as every sub-sector is concerned-interest rates, stocks,...
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US Elections and Global Economy
The United States is gearing up for one of the biggest democratic showdowns in November 2016. The nation is all set to elect its next President, as Barack Obama’s second term is nearing its end. The system is one of the indirect voting types, where voters cast their votes to choose electors. The presidential electors...
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UK GDP Annual Growth Highest Since 2007, Investors Positive
2007 signaled the housing crash in the U.S. which arguably plunged the world into recession, but now the Office for National Statistics (ONS) is suggesting that the UK economy is growing. Q4 of 2013, for example, saw growth of 0.7 percent, and gross domestic GDP growth of 1.9 percent – the highest it has been...
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The Best Methods of Investment for 2014
As the global financial markets are prepared for another period of turbulence, it seems clear that the long-term sustainability of the economic recovery cannot be guaranteed. This is creating a set of far-from-ideal circumstances for investors and traders, who must surmount rising odds if they are to operate profitably and get the best possible value...
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Can Financial Literacy Be Translated Into Fiscal Well-being?
Two factors in the status quo have increased the level of complexity about financial decision-making: the diverse nature of products and instability within the global economy. Large trading volume, as well as policy-change fiscal diversity, has affected the financial decision-making of not only investors but also those of the general masses. So to consolidate the...
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The Truth about Counterfeiting
When most people think about the economy and commerce, whether on a local or international scale, the main issues that come to mind are things like the personal and national debt, healthcare, employment, and social security; but one huge growing issue other than those common ones that the International Chamber of Commerce faces every single...
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How Payroll Outsourcing Helps Small and Large Business Houses
Payroll is perhaps the most important department of any organization. Even the most productive and the happiest employee would be more than shocked when he/she gets a paycheck with an incorrect amount. There was a time when most business houses including big and small prepared payroll and performed payroll functions in-house or within the company....
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Qatar’s Incredible Economy!
Qatar is an incredible country by whatever measure you care to use. Its economic growth figures are the envy of much of the world. Yet its rise to dominance not only within the Middle East itself but also much further afield, has all occurred within living memory. Before the Second World War, the country struggled...
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Facebook’s Challenging Environment
Facebook’s meteoric rise from dorm-room-prank to one of the world’s most valuable companies (based on recent valuations) has been well documented. The website is used by hundreds of millions of people worldwide and in February of 2012, Mark Zuckerberg, the famous CEO of Facebook, announced that the Company had filed with the Securities and Exchange...