Crime doesn’t pay…

sourceFor many of us, the stock market debacle of 1929 conjures images of devastated investors leaping from upper-story windows; ... today.As the Financial Times reports, corporate fraud is spiking:Fraud is closely correlated with the business cycle… As the downturn deepens and companies struggle for credit, the more managers [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 00:31:49

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News: Government's real help for business

Business Secretary Lord Mandelson today unveiled a package of measures designed to address the cash flow, credit and investment needs of small and medium businesses. The support package, which builds upon the commitments outlined in November's Pre Budget Report, consists of loan guarantees and a new [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 11:20:00

Back In Business @ The Roundup

I’m just getting settled here at home after getting back from a 14 hour flight ... to be. Frugal Dad tells us how to resolve credit bureau reporting errors. Money Smart Life: shares [more...]

Date: 2008-10-26 16:24:35

Intel reports sharp profit drop

Slowing demand for computers has hit chipmakersSlowing spending on computers saw Intel profits fall by 90% from $2.3bn to $234m (£159.6m) ... is building into its chips - but there are fears that the credit crunch will impede its business plans. [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 13:45:49

Officescape Launches New Telework Solution

Officescape is getting off to a busy start in 2009, no doubt leveraging the credit crunch and the down economy that’s buoying its industry ... of a distributed workforce, whether it’s a multinational company or a small group of partners scattered ... in 2006, according to a report issued by WorldatWork. In total, the sum of   teleworkers (both [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 23:54:30

U.S. Chamber of Commerce Unveils State of American Business Report

The two seem to make an unlikely pair, but according to the CEO of the U.S ... to get our economy going in a forward motion," Josten said. "One is credit and the other is confidence - and we ain’ [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 22:20:43

Four at Four: Looking for Cash

Whatever remaining euphoria that existed on expectations for the passage of a mighty bailout package that will cure all bad debts and even ... s not ideal.” Business as usual means looking forward to the jobs report due out in the morning, the lackluster demand for consumer goods, and ongoing credit problems that have reduced borrowing [more...]

Date: 2008-10-02 11:40:00

Citigroup Posts $8.3 Billion Loss, Splits Up Company

NEW YORK — Citigroup said Friday it is splitting up into two businesses as it reported a fourth-quarter net loss of $8 ... and banking revenue, and $5.3 billion on the value of credit derivatives. It also lost $2.5 billion [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 13:14:43

No Financials Required - Commercial Lending

If you search the internet for factoring or accounts receivable financing programs you have probably seen many companies claim, ... companies (”factors”) without financial statements. As a small business owner that performs multiple ... for your company without having to prepare a large amount of reports. But can a bank loan or line of credit [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 01:40:00

Banks put their hands up

The local banks turned up at the Assembly a month after they were requested to do so and put their hands up ... with the credit crisis had not always been fairly treated. Business, personal users and people ... . I blogged about this a couple of times before Christmas. PA has a good report on the proceedings [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 09:21:49

The Year in Business: 2008

ABC News’ Daniel Arnall reports: 2008 has been the most important year in the lifetime of every working-age American ... say this firm -- the bookie for hundreds of billions in credit default swaps -- was too big to fail [more...]

Date: 2008-12-31 15:10:56

Fannie teed up. Are you teed off?

Housing headlines of note in today's Los Angeles Times Business section: --"Fannie regrets golf excursion," ... not dispute the report, described the event as a mortgage industry customer meeting held twice ... for the quarter would fall by half to $1.5 billion. -- Lauren Beale Your thoughts? Comments? Photo credit [more...]

Date: 2008-11-05 20:53:11

He Gets Credit For Candor

He Gets Credit For Candor Jennifer Rubin - 12.18.2008 - 2:56 PM Pro-business groups and conservatives aren’t the only ones, we learn from this report, who see a problem for “card check” legislation in Blago-gate: Gerald ... when the FBI linked a competing union to Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich’s effort to sell Illinois’ U.S. Senate [more...]

Date: 2008-12-18 19:56:56

IIT placements slow down

This report was the first indication that it's not 'business as usual' at the IITs ... companies like Shell, RIL, Credit Suisse, HUL, Transocean, Dell and NetApp had initially said they would [more...]

Date: 2008-12-10 19:09:00

UAE's Loan Quality To Worsen: Moody's

Source : The Business Times, January 15, 2009(DUBAI) ... the past four to five years,' John Tofarides, a Dubai-based Moody's analyst said in a report. 'These factors will negatively affect the credit environment over the next 12 to 18 months.' UAE's small [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 16:20:00

Financial Crisis: missing the beat?

In Business Day yesterday, Anton Harber asked whether newspapers have ’explained (the financial crisis) ... Ritz and the web production team have done an excellent special online report (ok, lots of us don’ ... Another Bank, Credit Crisis and Market Failure (18 September), SA Banks are Safe (19 September), Morgan [more...]

Date: 2008-10-02 08:56:37

The General Electric Unit Sale: Obama’s Energy Plan to the Rescue?

Why sell a business just when its prospects could improve? ... to work. As Credit Suisse’s Nicole Parent noted in a Dec. 9 research report, GE [more...]

Date: 2008-12-17 10:01:00

The General Electric Unit Sale: Obama?s Energy Plan to the Rescue?

Why sell a business just when its prospects could improve? ... to work. As Credit Suisse’s Nicole Parent noted in a Dec. 9 research report, GE [more...]

Date: 2008-12-17 10:01:00

Dan Gainor on Fox News, Discusses Decline of Media

Vice President for the Business & Media Institute, Dan Gainor, spoke with Gretchen Carlson, host of "America's News HQ," ... , as reported in the paper Dec. 7. The Times said its credit rating from Standard & Poor's recently ... bankruptcy and cut jobs in many print news bureaus. [more...]

Date: 2008-12-10 15:32:25

Everybody Thought They Were Rich In California

The Bay Area Newsgroup reports from California. “Over the year that ended in July, ... of Business at University of California-Berkeley. ‘It is clearly the worst since the 1930s.’” “Financial institutions are already tightening up on terms, conditions, rates and amounts of credit [more...]

Date: 2008-09-16 20:00:21

Downgrades of European Real Estate Companies More Likely

The European real estate sector’s business model resilience and companies’ financial policies will be tested over the coming months,  Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services says in a new Industry Report Card. In the context of lower investor ... . Technorati Tags: credit-ratings, European real estate, standard-and-poors [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 15:24:08

Pre Budget Report: Live Blog

Fasten your seatbelts. You can comment in real time - comments are unmoderated.4.38 ... more for NHS wage bill. £2 bn for British business. Precision guided missle at the heart of economic ... . Pensioners: pension credit goes up to £130 for couple - above indexation. Biggest increase since 2003 [more...]

Date: 2008-11-24 15:21:00

It’s Time To Cut Back In California

The Union Tribune reports from California. “ABA Recovery Service owner Marcelle Egley-Sparks said that in the past year, ... of the Center for Consumer Financial Services at E. Philip Saunders College of Business in Rochester, N.Y. ... During its first 73 years, San Diego Metropolitan Credit Union never lost money on a real estate loan [more...]

Date: 2008-08-24 18:28:13

JP Morgan:2009 Cloud Computing Outlook

Bert Bouwhuis pointed me to the a report by JP Morgan on Internet-oriented companies, ... computing was on track to be the buzzword of 2008 until it was displaced by the credit crunch. But beneath ... and cloud applications for the consumer and small businesses due portability, collaboration, convenience [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 21:37:09

NACUBO: The FTC's Red Flag Rule Identity Theft Prevention Rule May Affect Colleges

The National Association of College and University Business Officers notes that the FTC's Red Flag rule likely applies to colleges ... of consumer reports must develop reasonable policies and procedures when they receive notification from a credit agency that there is an address discrepancy. Second, that financial institutions [more...]

Date: 2008-09-26 17:00:00

The Days Of Selling For An Unreasonable Price Are Gone

The Rocky Mountain News reports from Colorado. “Caroline Hoyt, whose company next Saturday is opening the Casitas at Stapleton, ... contracts. We don’t accept contingencies. They all fell apart over credit issues.” “If you want ... markets for years.” “‘When I got into the business nine years ago, all the stories were [more...]

Date: 2008-09-15 21:01:45

Credit Crisis Sequel, Global Bank Bailout, Emerging Markets Still a Buy?, Gas Wars and More!

Ghosts of the fourth quarter haunt global financials… so begins the second act of the credit saga… Even the IMF needs a loan… $150 billion to back ... and notprofitable) segments of the business. Robert Rubin, who among other things helped create this “ ... predicted today. According to Morgan’s report, profits at HSBC will decline “sharply” this year [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 15:28:24

No Costs Are Fixed

My first year in business was bewildering. The various services necessary to run a business took some effort to figure out and pull off at the right time. Insurance, credit card processors, telephone and Internet, payroll and accounting, and even ... guys handled. A smart company has IT report to finance because techies are like kids in a candy [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 08:01:00

The Problem With The Housing Market In California

The Press Enterprise reports from California. “For Inland Empire Auction in San Bernardino, ... . Finally, there was the credit crunch. It has all added up to a slow summer for auto dealers ... sales manager for Merle Stone Chevrolet in Tulare. ‘Everything has dropped.’” “‘ Business [more...]

Date: 2008-09-09 21:31:47

Understanding Sun's Business - Q1 Results

We announced our earnings today, and put specifics around our preannouncement from a week ago ... , which reflected a dramatic slowing in the US and Europe, and the effects the credit crisis is having ... for investors and analysts, we've added a new management report to our quarterly updates [more...]

Date: 2008-10-30 21:46:37

Beige Book in a tag cloud: Continued gloom

The Fed’s Beige Book is a hefty document that several times a year pulls together reports on economic activity from each of the Federal Reserve's 12 ... have been worse. To their credit, the Beige book's writers used many different phrases: "continued to weaken ... cloud! activity banks business commercial conditions construction consumer contacts [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 20:53:43

Citigroup plans to shed 53,000 jobs

Citigroup plans to shed 53,000 jobs by The Star-Ledger Business Desk Monday November 17, 2008, 9: ... of its work force, according to a report on Bloomberg News. The cuts are on top of a previous round ... of the contraction in the financial industry, which has been by crippled by the ongoing credit squeeze and exposure [more...]

Date: 2008-11-17 14:59:52

#15-AubreyJ’s Energy Update Report - November 12, 2008

AubreyJ’s Energy Update ReportOil Tycoon T. Boone Pickens puts hold on Wind Farm -Touts Natural-Gas Vehicles - Russia, Iran and Qatar hold talkson formation of NEW Gas CartelWednesday, November 12, 2008. Image Credit - John McCain Campaign Website.* The Arizona Republic has this article posted in their Business [more...]

Date: 2008-11-12 19:19:00

Amici Brief Exposes Risk to CA Businesses if Gay Marriages Annulled

Amici Brief Exposes Risk to CA Businesses if Gay Marriages Annulled January 16, 2009 By: jaysays Category: ElectionO8, Gay Marriage Rights, ... , they: extended credit in reliance upon California’s laws applicable to community property ... Continuation Benefits Replacement Act; took advantage of state tax reporting privileges based on married [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 23:00:29

Charon Reports: On Twitter - Are you going to put some skin in the game?…

“Twitter is becoming ever-more powerful. You can tell when businesses, brands and governments start putting skin in the game ... at Twitter. Today, as Winter tightens its grip on credit-crunched and completely financially knackered Britain, I get my podcasting kit and WWII helmet out and trawl the world to report on Twitter… [more...]

Date: 2008-12-14 14:45:45

S&P: Credit losses will rise into 2010

Credit ratings agency Standard & Poor’s expects nonperforming loans to continue to rise through 2009 and into 2010, ... for Biz2Credit. Biz2Credit is a small business marketplace that provides entrepreneurs ... to increase amid the widening economic downturn, Standard & Poor’s said in a new report released [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 02:34:39

Wishful thinking from castro's Canadian business partners

Sherritt International is a Canadian firm that's been in bed with castro, inc. for many years now ... . This is from theirquarterly report which was released yesterday: Sherritt's Oil and Gas ... . As at September 30, 2008, the Oil and Gas credit risk exposure related to its share of accounts [more...]

Date: 2008-10-30 10:05:45

FreeCreditReport.com Review: Not a Free Credit Report

Have you heard of those commercials on TV that talk about “free” credit reports? These services, such as FreeCreditReport.com are *not* truly free. They offer free trials for a limited time (usually 7 days) but they’re actually paid subscription services after the intro period is over. They’re in the business of credit monitoring and tracking your credit standing. Image by Andre Rolim/Getty Images These services exist to help us keep an eye on our credit reports. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-29 04:01:28

Credit Report And Correction Techniques

by Ada Denis The three major credit authorities, Experian, Equifax and Trans Union are similar and feature a “Credit Score”, which is produced from credit report data submitted to them about you. Their report includes where ... by a business to settle whether you would be a good employee. Credit report amend takes techniques [more...]

Date: 2008-11-23 20:10:07

Smaller banks still making loans

Boston Globe reports on local conditions for small businesses: Even as consumer loans become harder to get, ... executives report a continued flow of borrowing by small businesses, despite the credit crisis ... many small businesses in Massachusetts report they are still able to borrow money.In Franklin [more...]

Date: 2008-12-02 10:00:00

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