Business and Investing

Posted on Tuesday, 12th July 2011 by Christopher Allen

New York state’s pension fund posted a 15 percent rate of return in the state’s previous fiscal year, Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli said Thursday.

The fund’s assets are now worth an estimated $146.5 billion, the highest level since mid-2008. The value marks a net gain of $6 billion, or 4 percent, since the most recent estimate five months ago.

New York’s fund remains the third-largest public pension system in the nation, behind two in California. The fund pays $7.7 billion of benefits every year to just more than 1 million state and local government workers, retirees and their beneficiaries.

“We’ve come a long way back,” DiNapoli said. “There still are reasons to be cautious about the ongoing recovery, but the results are a good sign that the Fund has weathered the worst of the downturn.”

DiNapoli credited returns in the domestic and international equities markets for driving the pension fund’s performance. Rates of return in

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Posted on Monday, 11th July 2011 by Jesse Walker

BRUSSELS — Saudi Arabia increased significantly its oil production in June compared with May and could produce more in July, the executive director of the International Energy Agency said Tuesday.

“There is a significant increase from Saudi in June, and probably in July too,” Nobuo Tanaka said on the sidelines of a meeting at the European Parliament.

“It is a very, very good increase in production” for June, Tanaka said, adding that the IEA has data for June and more is still coming. The IEA will release its monthly oil market report Wednesday morning.

According to a Dow Jones Newswires survey Saudi Arabia produced almost 9.5 million barrels a day in June, an increase of 467,000 barrels a day from May.

OPEC said in its monthly report Tuesday that domestic oil consumption in Saudi Arabia is rising rapidly, up 7.8% on the year in May. Supplies from the country last month rose 461,000 barrels a day to 9.42 million barrels a day, OPEC said.

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Posted on Monday, 11th July 2011 by Christopher Allen

Nifty Trading Levels for 17 june 2011 Nifty Future Support and Resistance Levels Daily Nifty Level (17 june 2011)
Trading as per the support and resistance levels may be quite useful for intraday and Positional trading in stocks and index. Resistance is termed as the level where the stock generally gets some opposite force before it can go further up. A support is the level where a stock get buying interest before it can fall further. Under the normal market conditions or in the absence of some extremely panic news the support and the resistance levels can act as good levels for initiating the buying / selling. In general it’s advisable to buy the stocks at support levels and sell at the resistance levels. I

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Posted on Monday, 11th July 2011 by James Martin

School’s barely out, and already I’m getting ready for back-to-school. For the most part, it’s really about maintaining some sort of schedule, and watching for good deals on things my son will need when he heads back to school come autumn. While it would be nice to completely forget about school for the summer, that may not be the best idea.

Keeping a Schedule

No, I don’t have my son do “homework” every day. However, we do have something of a schedule. It involves him spending time each day reading, and spending time three or four times a week playing math games on the computer. That way, he can stay in some sort of “learning mode” when school comes along. He also continues taking piano lessons through the summer, and is expected to practice each day. Some sort of co

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Posted on Monday, 11th July 2011 by Jesse Walker

A long term loan like a home loan is a debt that is part of your budget every month. If you invest too much into it, there might not be adequate funds to manage a huge list of other expenses that will tend to accumulate with time. For eg. You need to make allowances for future expenses like education expenses for children, emergency funds for a job loss or the loss of one income in a situation where two people have taken a joint loan.

Did you ever wonder why your EMI is generally restricted to 30% or 40% of your monthly income? Here is why.Salary details, qualifications, employer/business, years of experience, growth prospects, alternate employment prospects and sources of other income, if any, all are aspects that determine the amount of loan you are eligible for.

Generally, the repayment schedule is worked out in a manner that allows not more than about 40% of your monthly gross income to be repaid as EMI.

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Posted on Sunday, 10th July 2011 by James Martin

Traders also speculate on the direction of stocks in the emerging and developed worlds.

Dynegy: The announcement by Blackstone Group that it was making a $4.50 a share bid for the power generating company created a groundswell of demand for shares in Dynegy, which rose 60% to just pennies short of the deal price. Options volume quickly eclipsed the overall reading of open interest at Dynegy when two tranches of 10,000 lot call options were scooped up by speculators wondering whether there was more upside juice for its stock price. An investor had no second thoughts in paying 50 cents for 10,000 calls expiring in September granting the investor buying rights at a fixed $4.00 per share. He shouldnt lose too much assuming the deal proceeds. But according to the terms of the agreement, Dynegy now has 30 days to shop itself to other buyers, which is likely why the obsession with options today.

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Posted on Sunday, 10th July 2011 by Jesse Walker

A U.S. district court recently ruled that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency must formally determine in accordance with the Clean Air Act whether greenhouse gases from airplanes endanger human health.
That means new air pollution standards could be coming for the airline industry.
Already the EPA proposed new standards for 737s, 747s, and 767s covering nitrogen oxide emissions, which can cause lung diseases.
The EPA had submitted a motion to dismiss a lawsuit filed by Earthjustice on behalf of the Center for Biological Diversity, Oceana, Friends of the Earth, the Center for Food Safety, and the International Center for Technology Assessment.
The United Nation’s International Civil Aviation Organization has already ratified similar standards, which seek to cut ground-level nitrogen oxide emissions by an estimated 100,000 tons in the US by 2030.
If the EPA adopts these rules, the cuts would be phased in over the next two years and applying to all new aircraft engines beginning in 2013.
U.S.

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Posted on Saturday, 9th July 2011 by James Martin

In recent weeks the crisis in Europe has continued to dominate world markets. But behind the scenes China, the world’s highly touted global growth savior, has been proving more and more fragile.

China continues to try to rein in inflation, recently raising interest rates for the fifth time since last October, but they’ve been unable to get a grip on it. Worse, the aggressive monetary and credit tightening is damaging its economy.

China’s all-important manufacturing sector has weakened sharply, recording its worst reading since February 2009 during the depths of the global financial crisis. Moreover, it’s looking increasingly like China is finally set to begin its own bubble burst.

Especially when you consider this …

Back in late 2008-early 2009, when the global economy was on the edge of the cliff looking down, global governments coordinated unprecedented monetary and fiscal stimulus, backstops and emergency aid to avoid disaster. And even

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Posted on Saturday, 9th July 2011 by Jesse Walker

AIX-EN-PROVENCE, France — The chief executive officer of French oil company Total SA said oil prices are trending upward while refining margins are weak, and also said the company is widening the field of possible buyers for its Lindsey refinery in the U.K.

“The trend at the moment is for prices to rise as fundamentals point to more energy demand,” Christophe de Margerie said on a panel at the Rencontres Economiques d’Aix-en-Provence conference here in the south of France.

Without speculation, oil prices would still be rising, in part due to geopolitical concerns and demand, he added.

“Yes, prices are going up, and you shouldn’t expect them to come back down in the long term,” de Margerie told reporters on the sidelines of the conference. “On an underlying basis they will continue to rise, the price isn’t just up to us as a oil company.”

He noted that the price of oil has even risen to around $118 a barrel in spite of the International Energy Agency’s decision in June to release 60 million barrels of oil from emergency stocks to alleviate problems caused by the shutdown of Libyan crude exports due to the civil war.

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Posted on Saturday, 9th July 2011 by Jesse Walker

Fauve Intertrade, a private equity firm in Raleigh, is purchasing EndPoint Logistics. The company, which has fewer than 10 people, will move its headquarters to North Carolina. A spokesman said EndPoint will keep an office and some of its operations in metro Atlanta.

As EndPoint expands, more than half of the new jobs will be in metro Atlanta, the spokesman said.

EndPoint, which was previously known as JMT Logistics, provides logistics technology for managing global enterprises. Fauve Intertrade intends to expand its U.S. logistics division beginning this summer. The acquisition will add IT operations to the firm’s warehouse management and inventory control systems, senior vice president Roberto Rivera, Sr. said in a statement.

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