To access the newsletter, click on the link: http://share.thomsonreuters.com/assets/newsletters/Indiamorning/MNC_IN_01052016.pdf 2015 OVERVIEW The M&A volume rose 40.8 percent over last year to a… read more >>> Source : Reuters
With 2015 in the books, it’s time to look forward. You know what that means: predictions for next year! Here are a few things I’ll be tracking in 2016. Hiring Managers Cool On Elite Credentials In 2015, accounting firms Ernst & Young and Deloitte announced big changes to the way they assess job candidate readiness, […]
China’s yuan firmed at its open on Tuesday, a day after both forex and stock markets plunged sharply in response to weak economic data. read more >>> Source : EconomicTimes.IndiaTimes.Com
The AWS corporate email service is now generally available after a year-long preview, with 50GB of storage available for $4 per month. read more >>> Source : ZDNet.Com
(Reuters) – International Business Machines Corp said on Monday Steven Mills, executive vice president, software and systems, decided to retire on Dec. 31, after a career spanning more than four decades. read more >>> Source : Reuters
Oil prices edged up on Tuesday after a volatile session, with the impact of tension in the Middle East offset by worries over global economic growth. read more >>> Source : CNBC.Com
Faraday Future is about to officially pull the wraps off of its new electric car ahead of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The startup first landed on the auto industry’s radar last year, when the company opened an office in Southern California, and started hiring a bevy of auto and tech industry talent […]
HONG KONG/BEIJING, Jan 5 (Reuters) – China’s first landing of a plane on one of its new island runways in the South China Sea shows Beijing’s facilities in the disputed region are being completed on schedule and military flights will inevitably follow, foreign officials and analysts said. read more >>> Source : Reuters
LG Display gives a first look at its flexible display that can be rolled up and carried away – a potential breakthrough in TV tech. read more >>> Source : BBC
Are you ready to enhance your digital footprint as a professional? LinkedIn is the best tool for individuals who want to maximize their career impact. Since LinkedIn is the #1 business social networking tool, it’s important that you put the energy and effort into spending your time wisely on LinkedIn. Do you have limited time? […]
SHANGHAI, Jan 5 (Reuters) – China stocks opened lower on Tuesday, the day after a 7 percent plunge in mainlaind shares roiled global markets and caused domestic trade to be suspended. read more >>> Source : Reuters
General Motors has invested $500 million into ridesharing service Lyft with the vision of establishing a fleet of driverless on-demand vehicles. read more >>> Source : ZDNet.Com
* Bonds and yen gain safety bid, most commodities under pressure read more >>> Source : Reuters
A few years ago I hit a fork in my career road. Should I continue working in an organization where I felt undervalued and underappreciated – or leave and start over again? It was a gut-wrenching decision. For months, I went into work every day with a knot in my stomach. Most of us have […]
Asian markets continue to head lower after a 7% plunge in mainland Chinese shares on Monday triggered an equities sell-off around the world. read more >>> Source : BBC
U.S. stock prices fell sharply Monday, with major stock indexes closing down by around 1.6 percent in the first full trading day of 2016. The selloff was sparked by a series of disappointing reports on Chinese manufacturing, and the impact of increased geopolitical tensions on oil prices. But while some analysts say the Chinese slowdown […]
Saudi Arabia has ended air traffic and trade links with Iran, demanding that Tehran “act like a normal country.” read more >>> Source : CNBC.Com
From smart shoes to a pet bowl that prevents you stuffing your cat, a look at some of CES 2016’s first announcements. read more >>> Source : BBC
* USD hits 11-wk low, euro touches 8-mth trough vs yen overnight read more >>> Source : Reuters
China Mobile has awarded a tender to ASX-listed telco infrastructure provider Enice to provide three million distributed antenna systems over the next two years. read more >>> Source : ZDNet.Com
The big tech themes for 2016 read more >>> Source : BBC
In a day plagued with devastating losses across the board, two gunmakers bucked the rest of the market to turn in healthy gains. The security and safety industry group, to which gunmakers belong, cracked into the top half of industry groups in the last month. The 32-member group doesn’t necessarily scream with strength; only six […]
Influential power-players and companies from the tech world are increasingly dipping their toes into the world of politics. And that’s one of the biggest geopolitical risks going into 2016, argue Eurasia Group’s Ian Bremmer and Cliff Kupchan in their annual list of top risks. “There’s much to be celebrated in the increasing power of the […]
Vacation homes are more popular than ever, but before your clients choose their dream escape, have them consider these important questions. read more >>> Source : Realtor.org
I was nearly incapacitated the first time I brought my boyfriend to a work event. It was the fall of 2009, and it had only been a few months since I came out as a gay man. With every handshake, every subtle glance, I wondered: Am I being judged? What do they really think? How […]
As Saudi Arabia cut ties with Iran, experts debate what effect the conflict could have on the oil market. read more >>> Source : CNBC.Com
A New Year’s celebration on Wall Street Monday was far from happy, at least for the bulls, as a rout in China stocks overnight fueled a broad sell-off, putting the market in a correction. After falling as much as 3.2%, the Nasdaq ended near its session high but still lost 2.1%. The Dow gave up […]
BRASILIA, Jan 4 (Reuters) – Brazilian cargo ship and port operator Log-In Logística Intermodal SA said on Monday it had received a proposal from Manabi Holding SA to buy a majority stake in the company. read more >>> Source : Reuters
Artificial Intelligence is constantly pushing the boundaries of what machines are capable of. But could machines ever become better than us? The answer is of course ‘yes’, at least in many things where our intellect used to be the unchallenged champion of creativity and intelligence. Here are 5 tough intellectual areas where AI is already […]
Business at gunmaker Smith & Wesson is going gangbusters. Management just announced it was raising its guidance because sales have been so strong. For its fiscal Q3, it estimates it had $175 million to $180 million in sales, up from its earlier guidance of $150 million to $155 million. This new guidance is much higher […]
For individual investors who like to sell stocks short in bad markets, the head-and-shoulders pattern often provides a reliable entry. IBD founder William J. O’Neil observed in “How to Make Money in Stocks” that when identifying a top in a stock, “head-and-shoulders patterns are among the most reliable.” Yet problems sometimes occur in interpretation. “If […]
BRASILIA, Jan 4 (Reuters) – The Brazilian Treasury issued 40 billion reais ($9.91 billion) in new debt on Monday to provide liquidity for central bank monetary policy operations, the finance ministry… read more >>> Source : Reuters
Jan 4 (Reuters) – Nissan Motor Co will start selling the new Kicks crossover in Latin America this year, Chief Executive Carlos Ghosn announced on a Monday visit to the plant in Brazil that will produce the vehicle. read more >>> Source : Reuters
Chile’s internal revenue service said Monday that it has asked a local court to initiate a criminal investigation of President Michelle Bachelet’s daughter-in-law, Natalia Compagnon, for tax crimes. The IRS’s request concerned alleged tax crimes “related to the filing of maliciously false tax declarations, incorporating false invoices into the accounting of the company (Exportadora y […]
Fridge, meet tablet. Samsung on Sunday unveiled via its Korean website a new refrigerator that will connect to the Internet. It looks like someone welded a gargantuan iPad onto the front door, and it reportedly will let people access a list of their food from any smartphone, get alerts when items are expiring, listen to […]
General Motors CEO Mary Barra is taking on the added role of chairman at the nation’s largest automaker. read more >>> Source : CTVNews.Ca
Upon first hearing this you absorbed the advice as wise and common sense. New evidence from scientific studies suggests that this supposedly sage advice handed down by executives, leaders, and HR departments across the globe is simply misguided and wrong. The link between stress and mental health is undeniable. The more stress someone experiences, the […]
(Reuters) – Yahoo Inc was ordered by a Chicago federal judge on Monday to face a class action lawsuit accusing the Internet company of sending unsolicited text messages to Sprint Corp cellphone users in violation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act. read more >>> Source : Reuters
Every year at around this time, for the past 6 years, I have sat down in a quiet place to plan out my upcoming year. I’m not a believer in vague resolutions, but rather, I make a list of goals for the year. I start by listing out all of the things I might want […]
Stop me if you’ve heard this before: investing in broad, low-cost index funds is the best way to save for retirement. In the wake of the tech bubble — which saw a lot of average-people-turned-stock-traders lose everything — and the housing bubble — which saw average-people-turned-real-estate-professionals lose everything — a vocal part of the financial […]
Chipotle’s sales are sliding following an E. coli outbreak tied to its restaurants across nine states. The company is expecting same-store sales to decline by 8% to 11% for the fourth quarter, and analysts say the slide could continue for at least another year. To judge how long the damage might last, analysts for Oppenheimer […]
The new year got off to a rough start for many stocks in the Spotlight screen, but several held up well Monday despite the market’s sharp sell-off. Nearly half the stocks in the screen sliced through their 50-day moving averages. Hawaiian (HA) was the biggest decliner, dropping 7%. But TAL Education (XRS), Acuity Brands (AYI) […]
Cooking with energy from the sun — a technique featured last month in an episode of “Top Chef” — could soon put a major dent in what some experts call the world’s greatest environmental health issue. Every day, nearly half the people in the world prepare their meals over burning wood, charcoal or animal dung. […]
It’s been a turbulent start to 2016 for world financial markets with big drops in the value of shares across the world Monday. The sell-off began in China – where concerns are growing over the quickening pace of the slowdown, as Henry Ridgwell reports. read more >>> Source : VOANews.Com
(Adds strategist comment, details; updates prices to close) * Canadian dollar ends at C$1.3941, or 71.73 U.S. cents * Bond prices marginally higher across the maturity curve By Alastair Sharp… read more >>> Source : Reuters