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 | November 24th 2010 | no comments
A day after the "rescue" of Ireland by the EU returns to the capital markets more and more into our old routine. Yesterday's relief was replaced by worries about an imminent deterioration of the situation.
The euro slid by more than two cents as compared to [...]
Posted in: Business by Andra Marinescu | November 24th 2010 | no comments
Carlos Slim, the richest man on the planet in 2010, according to Forbes magazine, acquired shares in BlackRock Inc.'s , the largest money manager, expanding his holdings in the United States.
Slim's spokesman, Arturo Elias, said he did not know the exact value of the direct holdings or [...]
Posted in: Business by Andra Marinescu | November 24th 2010 | no comments
Before coming on Thursday in the U.S., the Thanksgiving turkey on the table the verdict for SAP-Oracle suit was given. Today, SAP profits bring at least a bit of good news. A positive analysts' study and a positive quarterly report from a computer company taste, [...]
Posted in: Business by Andra Marinescu | November 23rd 2010 | one comment
Britain is to give Ireland a loan, probably around 7 billion pounds, according to BBC. The economic consultant of the British executive, George Osborne, and the Prime Minister David Cameron have discussed this issue last week [...]
Posted in: Business by Andra Marinescu | November 23rd 2010 | no comments
With an unemployment rate of just 3.7%, North Dakota does not feel any economic crisis, on the other hand the state is even blooming. "If there weren’t cable news channels, you probably would not have had any idea of the situation in the rest of the country," said Doug Johnson, [...]
Posted in: Business by Andra Marinescu | November 23rd 2010 | no comments
You probably know that we talk about the dollar, which many saw him down, especially against the euro after the announcement by the Fed program QE2. We remember how two months, right after Ben Bernanke announced intentions by the application of new quantitative features, we observed a [...]
Posted in: Business by Andra Marinescu | November 23rd 2010 | no comments
Ireland has decided, after weeks of speculation, to officially ask the international community for financial aid. The finance ministers from the EU immediately signaled their support. Thus, Ireland is the first country to tap into the European rescue fund. It was [...]
Posted in: Business by Andra Marinescu | November 22nd 2010 | no comments
Schäuble sees EU ready for new market turmoil. The European Union is, according to the words of the Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble well prepared for any renewed turmoil in the markets of government bonds. "We have the tools" said Schäuble, referring to [...]
Posted in: Business by Andra Marinescu | November 22nd 2010 | no comments
The United States President, Barack Obama, took the time Saturday at the NATO summit in Lisbon, to praise the new General Motors car hybrid that will be launched in Europe next year. "Obama found himself in the position of chief salesman for the GM-Opel Ampera, just days after Washington said [...]
Posted in: Business by Andra Marinescu | November 21st 2010 | no comments
With a large investment program will of the Volkswagen Group in the race to the top of the global auto industry take a step forward. VW's supervisory board on Friday decided in Wolfsburg for the next five years, expenditure in the amount of 51.6 billion euros, with which the car [...]
Posted in: Business by Andra Marinescu | November 21st 2010 | no comments
Yesterday was really not much going on. Both the Dow Jones and NASDAQ at the end of the trading session had results almost like their previous close. The Dow reported a gain of 0.20% to 11 203 points, the NASDAQ again almost equal to 0.15% or 2518 points.
A small imbalance in the [...]
Posted in: Business by Andra Marinescu | November 21st 2010 | no comments
The German stock market shows the week ending rather uneasy. This is unlikely to include the expiration date to be little blame for the financial markets. Nevertheless, in early trading at 6854 points, a new two-year-high mark. The [...]
Posted in: Business by Andra Marinescu | November 21st 2010 | one comment
Google employs over 2,000 people worldwide following the expansion of the Group’s activity into new markets, according to international media. Google currently has 2076 vacancies, this number being 6 times higher than in 2009. The job offers that Google posted varies from University [...]
Posted in: Business, Featured by Andra Marinescu | November 20th 2010 | no comments
The shares of General Motors (GM) rose by 7% to $ 35.99 / share, after the U.S. car giant made a record IPO offer, writes BBC News. GM has raised U.S. $ 20.1 billion after the offer of shares, marking the biggest sale of securities in the United States. The President Barack Obama said the [...]
Posted in: Business by Andra Marinescu | November 20th 2010 | no comments
The U.S. Federal Reserve made it clear. To fight deflation spiral that gradually it will keep the prices that they do not want it twisted in the future. Or is it in reality?
Like we saw in these last days, prices for some products now traded on the American continent are [...]
Posted in: Business by Andra Marinescu | November 20th 2010 | no comments
We have all been the witnesses of the incredible peaks gold recorded since the beginning of this year. We all heard about the proposal of going back to gold as a reference (standard) and we have all witnesses the stock market indexes plummet one day or rise the next.
While Wall [...]
Posted in: Business by Andra Marinescu | November 19th 2010 | no comments
The new plan comes to the U.S. Federal Reserve facilities and we can say that it has incited criticism internally and externally. They have targeted the inevitable increase in inflation and financial market turmoil. On the other [...]
Posted in: Business by Andra Marinescu | November 19th 2010 | no comments
Ireland's central bank governor Patrick Honohan said a few hours ago that he expected the government to officially ask for a financial aid of billions of euros from the European Union and the International Monetary Fund. Mr. Honohan said he sees even an interest rate around [...]
Did you know that Metrolic can be viewed from popular touch-based smartphones like iPhoneTM, iPod touchTM, AndroidTM, PalmTM Pre/Pixi, and BlackBerry StormTM?
Featured ›
read more ›
read more ›
read more ›
read more ›
read more ›
read more ›
read more ›
read more ›
read more ›
read more ›
read more ›
read more ›
read more ›
read more ›
read more ›
read more ›
read more ›
read more ›
read more ›
read more ›