Posted on Friday, 1st July 2011 by Jesse Walker
Credit cards that tell you “buy now, pay later” are a great convenience when your cash is stretched for purchases. However wise use of credit cards is very important for your financial health. A typical free credit period in India is 45-51 days. If you pay off the dues within this period, the interest is [...]
Tags: Card, Credit Card
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Posted on Friday, 1st July 2011 by Jesse Walker
– Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn was released from house arrest on Friday after prosecutors said the hotel maid who accused him of attempted rape lied to a grand jury and made other false statements. Strauss-Kahn, 62, still faces charges that he sexually assaulted the woman in New York but questions about her credibility appear [...]
Tags: Arrest, House Arrest
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Posted on Thursday, 30th June 2011 by Jesse Walker
Goldman Sachs may lay off as many as 230 employees, according to a filing with the New York State Department of Labor. The filing dated June 29 cites economic reasons for the potential layoffs, which could begin in late September and extend through March 31, 2012. State law requires that businesses with 50 or more [...]
Tags: Dept Labor, Labor
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Posted on Thursday, 30th June 2011 by Jesse Walker
All life insurance companies in India have term plans in their bouquet of offerings. The rates are also quite competitive. So it really does not matter which company you take the cover from (IRDA has done a pretty good job at regulating the insurance companies – all of them are safe). Based on your comfort [...]
Tags: Life Insurance, Plan
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Posted on Thursday, 30th June 2011 by Jesse Walker
WASHINGTON – The Federal Reserve on Wednesday adopted debit-card swipe-fee rules that are more beneficial to banks than had been expected. The Fed rule cuts fees retailers pay to accept debit-card payments to 21 cents, plus a conditional charge of a penny and 0.05% of the transaction value for fraud prevention. On the average debit [...]
Tags: Rule
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Posted on Thursday, 30th June 2011 by Jesse Walker
The known remedy to make capital surpass inflation is to invest in equity instruments. This helps investor grow their capital much faster and will help beat inflation in spite of sharp periods of decline. Equity investment refers to the buying and holding of shares of stock on a stock market by individuals and funds in [...]
Tags: Equity, Equity Investing
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Posted on Thursday, 30th June 2011 by Jesse Walker
Every year, millions of cups end up in the water, making their way into fish stomachs or to a massive vortex of trash in the Pacific Ocean. Others end up in landfills, where they take hundreds of years to break down. Outside of California, few facilities recycle them. Now, Stone Mountain-based New Wincup Holdings Inc. [...]
Tags: Cup, Foam Cup
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Posted on Wednesday, 29th June 2011 by Jesse Walker
Melbourne-based National Solar Power is considering Sumter and Tatnall counties for the project, five times larger than the world’s largest solar array, which is in Ontario. The company also is looking at four counties in Florida and one in North Carolina, according to a news release posted on its Web site. The company has hired [...]
Tags: Project, Solar Project
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Posted on Tuesday, 28th June 2011 by Jesse Walker
– Wall Street closed its best three-day run in three months on Wednesday after the Greek parliament approved austerity measures to avoid defaulting on its debt. Optimism about the plan’s approval has helped the stock market recoup some of its losses of the last two months. The CBOE Volatility Index .VIX, Wall Street’s “fear gauge,” [...]
Tags: Months, Three Months, Wall St
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Posted on Tuesday, 28th June 2011 by Jesse Walker
SYDNEY — Minara Resources Ltd. has cut production at its Murrin Murrin nickel processing plant after the failure of a heat exchanger, the company said Thursday. Minara said that the acid plant–where acid is run through the ore to extract a nickel-rich solution–has been taken offline as a result of the failure. “Production from the [...]
Tags: Failure
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