Hy! My name is Andra and I’m a med school student. I enjoy riding horses at our local horse-riding school and playing massive multiplayer online role playing games or MMORPGs. Here at Metrolic, I try to update our readers on the latest news in business and economics.
Posted in: Business by Andra Marinescu | December 20th 2010 | no comments
The PMI activity index reveals a slowdown in growth in December in France. Within the euro zone, Germany continues to distinguish itself by its dynamism.
The snow and weather are not good for business. French companies surveyed by the [...]
Posted in: Business by Andra Marinescu | December 20th 2010 | no comments
After the partial withdrawal of Otto Beisheim, a major shareholder in Metro, Duisburg Haniel family group is also planning to reduce its stake in the Düsseldorf trade company. Investors react in alarm.
The Metro stock is in the morning at a discount of nearly [...]
Posted in: Business by Andra Marinescu | December 20th 2010 | no comments
A quarter of Daimler’s customers must now wait for their newly ordered vehicle. The company produces at full capacity and expects the coming year with a sustained momentum.
The forecasts for the first half were pretty resilient, so that one could expect that [...]
Posted in: Business by Andra Marinescu | December 20th 2010 | no comments
Massive cancellations of flights, irritated passengers and crowded terminals: Lufthansa and Fraport have taken a though blow from the hard winter weather. A special flight plan should at least secure long-haul flights. The investors are disappointed.
The shares [...]
Posted in: Business by Andra Marinescu | December 20th 2010 | no comments
The Tokyo stock market continued to tread water for a few days of holiday season. At the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Friday morning, the trend is still that of stability: the Nikkei 225 ended the session down by 0.07% to 10,303.83 points. The activity was average, with 2.06 [...]
Posted in: Business by Andra Marinescu | December 20th 2010 | no comments
China and Hong Kong topped by Standard and Poor's. The rating agency welcomes the exceptional growth prospects of the two countries.
Once is not custom, Standard and Poor's, accustomed in recent months to degrade European countries in crisis, noted [...]
Posted in: Business by Andra Marinescu | December 19th 2010 | no comments
Raw materials will remain under pressure from macroeconomic factors. The austerity measures and the financial health of the economy will determine the mood of investors.
In 2010, the commodity market offered a lot of suspense, [...]
Posted in: Business by Andra Marinescu | December 19th 2010 | no comments
A lot of momentum, one should not expect from the last pre-Christmas Dax-week. While the contemplation increases, the trading will be reduced to the same extent. For investors, it is time to buy stocks on the Dax in the outstanding period of 2010.
2010 was, at least [...]
Posted in: Business by Andra Marinescu | December 19th 2010 | no comments
The International Monetary Fund now expects a decline of 3% of GDP in 2011 against the 2.5% previously expected for the Greeks. The third tranche of the loan for the country was also released.
The Greek economy is doing less well than the [...]
Posted in: Business by Andra Marinescu | December 19th 2010 | no comments
Five European leaders sent a letter to Commission President José Manuel Barroso. They want the EU does not exempt the efforts of its member states to put their public finances.
Nobody should be exempted from the burden of redressing [...]
Posted in: Business by Andra Marinescu | December 19th 2010 | 2 comments
The Mannheim-based company, who has reacted in the past fiscal year, but everything is stagnant, but in terms of profit. In the future, MVV will reduce costs and break new ground.
A higher electricity sales has the SDAX-listed energy utility in the past fiscal year [...]
Posted in: Business by Andra Marinescu | December 19th 2010 | no comments
The order books are full, the plants come with settings currently not far behind. No doubt, the German industry is booming. This is also shown by the latest Markit Purchasing Managers Index.
The index for the German industry, which is based on a survey of 1,000 [...]
Posted in: Business by Andra Marinescu | December 19th 2010 | no comments
The bank on Wall Street, Goldman Sachs has just launched the reviewed forecasts for 2011 last week. Among the bank’s predictions we find that crude oil will rise next year to $ 105 per barrel and the U.S. S & P 500 index [...]
Posted in: Business by Andra Marinescu | December 18th 2010 | no comments
We expect a solid pullback in the first month of 2011. On Wednesday the Dow fell 19 points and S & P 500 fell by 6 points in just one day after the stock market made a new high of the year. Prices have now reached the market in a relatively higher [...]
Posted in: Business by Andra Marinescu | December 18th 2010 | no comments
That might not please the rival SAP: The U.S. software giant Oracle exceeds expectations in the fiscal second quarter analysts' expectations by miles. The stock reacted with strong premiums.
In after-hours trading on [...]
Posted in: Business by Andra Marinescu | December 18th 2010 | no comments
The European Central Bank (ECB) provides in the fight against the debt crisis in the euro zone an additional financial buffer. It would increase its share capital of just 5.8 to 10.76 billion euros, said the ECB in Frankfurt am Main. The increase must [...]
Posted in: Business by Andra Marinescu | December 18th 2010 | no comments
The British oil giant BP at risk of further costs in the billions for the environmental disaster off the Gulf of Mexico. The U.S. government has unexpectedly filed a complaint that BP could be costly.
In essence, the application submitted to the government about [...]
Posted in: Business by Andra Marinescu | December 18th 2010 | no comments
In the U.S. credit card industry to come on hard times. The U.S. central bank will limit the fees of the bank card provider. The shares of MasterCard, Visa and American Express are rushing to the basement.
In the future, the credit card companies can charge, [...]
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