A survey was conducted by Mckinsey which found an enormous amount of dissatisfaction among executives when it came to strategic planning. Many of them feel that they are wasting a lot of time. Below is advice from Richard Rumelt (UCLA Professor whose research centers on corporate diversification strategy and the sources of sustainable advantage to [...]
Does gold belong in your retirement account? You betcha.
If there was any metal on earth that you can rely on, it’s gold. Most people think of gold as an accessory, but its uses far outweigh the decorative ones. Gold is already being used extensively in nanotechnology experiments and as oil prices get higher and mining [...]
For those who missed buying into the market late last year or early this year, now is actually a good time to enter the stockmarket. Prices are drastically lower with massive sell-offs due to the US sub-prime lending scare. And if Ben Bernanke, Chairman of the US Federal Reserve, lowers interest rates, it should bouy [...]
US stocks dropped for a second straight day on Thursday, led by declines in the Nasdaq after tech bellwether Cisco Systems signalled the credit crisis was hurting demand from key customers, including banks. A late-day rebound in beaten-down financial stocks, however, pulled the indexes well off their worst levels of the day, partly due to [...]
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