marți, 5 aprilie 2011

Record employment: McDonald's will bring 50,000 people a day

Group of fast food McDonald's said Monday that it would hire 50,000 people to the restaurants in the United States through a campaign that will run throughout the day April 19, following the staff of the U.S. to reach 700,000, according to CNN.

The 50,000 jobs will include positions full time, part-time as well.
The Group operates 14,000 restaurants around the U.S. and hiring campaign will run in all these locations in a single day.
"We are pleased to offer 50,000 jobs across America in a single day, " said McDonald's U.S. president, Jan Fields.
Average salary of jobs offered by McDonald's is $ 8.3 per hour, compared with the federal minimum wage of $ 7.25 per hour, said Fields.

Top of the bad real estate markets in the world

11 Czech Republic
Despite the fact that the World Bank Czech Republic ranked 82 places in the world as good for business location and the central bank could increase interest reference, the country registered a continuous increase in unemployment and slow wage growth, which affects quite hard segment property.
This is highlighted by over 3% decline in house prices in 2010 from the previous year and their loss of 0.9% last quarter.
10 Spain
Top 48 ranking in World Bank country attractive in terms of doing business, Spain is not rated far better in terms of real estate.
With an annual drop in house prices of 3.5% in 2010 and 0.4% in the last quarter of last year, Spain continues to struggle with the crisis that has ruined even the banking sector.
9 Japan
Although he suffered greatly from the devastating earthquake followed by tsunami that resulted in the loss of thousands of lives of the Japanese archipelago, Japan benefits from optimiste.Astfel prospects, despite a decline of 3.6% in 2010 and the decrease of 0.8% house price in the third quarter of last year, real estate market in Japan is likely to rebound once the rebuilding cities devastated by the earthquake of 11 March.
8 Portugal
With an unemployment rate of over 11% and an estimated growth of just 0.2% in 2011, Portugal did not seem to show signs of growth or the real estate sector. The only source for such an increase could be foreign demand, according to journalists at the Business Insider.
Thus, house prices in Portugal have recorded an annual decline of 4%, while only in the last quarter, the Portuguese market registered a price decline of 1.2%, according to Knight Frank report.
7 United States
Data published by the rating agency Standard & Poor's Case-Schiller index form for the house show a weak start to the year as prospects for 2011.
Thus, American cities have seen declines in home prices last month last year, have had a beginning of the year as bleak and representatives of rating agency estimates that even in the next period will not register improvements.
6 Greece
No Greece is not so encouraging signs for developers, in the context of unpopular reforms, demand for financing from the European authorities, followed by nationwide protests by the population.
With a very rapid increase in unemployment, from 10.2% in Q4 of 2009, to 14.1% in the last quarter of last year, according to Eurostat, Greece is in a social crisis and beyond.
5 Dubai
Last year, the offices in Dubai were ranked fourth in the world price, with over $ 1,000 per square meter, according to Cushman & Wakefield. This year, the emirate has emerged from the top, after a decline of over 30%.
In addition, 40% of Dubai's buildings have tenants and home prices fell 6.1% in 2010 from the previous year, and in the third quarter of last year, they still fell by 6.1%, according to the report Knight Frank.
4 Croatia
Top 89 ranking in World Bank's best countries for opening a business in Croatia is currently facing economic slowdown, rising unemployment and violent protests of the population against the government measures.
Thus, even as home prices were not to be increasing in 2010 registering a decline of 7.2%, with a decline of only 0.9% in the fourth quarter.
3 Ukraine
Unlike its neighbors, Ukraine is better in the "crisis management".
Thus, despite the reduction in consumer confidence and high inflation rate, estimated growth this year is 4.5%.
Instead, house prices in Ukraine have decreased by 7.8% in 2010 from a year earlier, according to analysts at Knight Frank report.
2 Lithuania
Top 26 ranking in World Bank country attractive in terms of doing business, Lithuania is optimistic about economic growth, estimated at 5.8% this year.
However, housing prices have declined 10.1% in 2010 from the previous year, of which 3.9% decrease was recorded in the third quarter.
In addition, according to Eurostat, unemployment in Lithuania in February 2011 was the second largest in the entire European Union at 17.4%, exceeded only by Spain.
1 Ireland
Ireland recorded in February the lowest annual inflation rate in the EU, while by comparison, Romania experienced the highest inflation rate in the same period.
However, house prices in Ireland fell by 10.8% in 2010 over the previous year, while in the fourth quarter, prices fell by 3.5%, according to Knight Frank report.

Japan's Richest donate their salary until retirement

President of Japanese telecommunications company Softbank, Masayoshi Son, Japan's richest man, said it will donate ten billion yen ($ 120 million) and salary until his retirement to help victims of the disaster that struck Japan.

Son, aged 53, won in the fiscal year ended in March, a salary of 108 million yen ($ 1.3 million) and dividends worth 1.3 billion yen (15.5 million dollars ). 21% stake owned by Son at Softbank is valued at more than 740 billion yen (8.8 billion dollars), according to Bloomberg data. Japanese edition of Forbes Son classify him as the richest man in Japan.

luni, 4 aprilie 2011

Top 5 booming economic centers

1 Shanghai
Among managers and analysts surveyed, 62 said that Shanghai will increase in importance in terms of economic development, while 22 said they will open offices here in the coming years.
2 Singapore
Of those surveyed, 38 said that Singapore will grow in importance in terms of economic development and 21 said they will open offices here in the coming years.
3 Seoul
Among study participants, 37 said that Seoul will grow in importance in terms of economic development and 13 said they will open offices here in the coming years.
4 Hong Kong
Hong Kong will become stronger economically, they answered 33 of the respondents, while 23 said they will open offices here in the coming years.
5 Beijing
China will increase in importance in terms of economic development, says the managers and 17 analysts surveyed during the study, while 12 said they were willing to open their offices here in the coming years.

How have enriched the best known investors

1. David Tepper - undervalued bank actions
The owner of U.S. investment fund Appaloosa Management has made about $ 7 billion in 2009, investing in undervalued bank stocks and betting on the fact that the economy will avoid another Great Depression.
2. Jesse Livermore - short sales before the Great Depression
Jesse Livermore made a fortune of $ 100 million after it sold shares short just before the 1929 market crash. He had done three million dollars in 1907, taking advantage of stock market panic.
3. Peter Lynch - Shares of Fannie Mae
Lynch led the Fidelity Magellan Fund investment fund from 1977 until 1990, when he retired from the market. Fund assets have increased in the mentioned period from 18 million to $ 14 milirade dollars. In those 13 years has run the Fidelity Magellan, a player who invested $ 1,000 would have won 28,000 dollars.
4. George Soros - depreciation of sterling
Known as "the man who won the Bank of England," George Soros has become one of the best known players in the world in 1992 after a $ 10 billion bet on a decline of the pound sterling. In these days of central bank withdrew EERM pound (European Exchange Rate Mechanism) British leading to currency depreciation, which brought Soros evolution over a billion dollars, or even two, if we were to take the man made after further reporting business.
5. Andrew Hall - Oil at $ 100
Andrew Hall, a former energy trader on Citigroup, bought futures contracts in 2003, counting on the fact that the price of a barrel of oil will jump $ 100 in the next five ani.In 2008 this happened, and Hall made a profit $ 250,000,000 in its own name.
6. Steven Cohen - Shares undervalued
In October 1987, a day after U.S. stock market suffered a drop of 22%, Steven Cohen $ 50,000,000 wagered on the titles they consider undervalued. The next day the market recorded a return reusin trader to remove a good portion of loss that the company has entered into brokerage avea.Cohen them in 1978 working at Ground & Co. company. In his first day he made $ 8,000 their own money, then bringing the company at least $ 100,000 profit every day.
7. John Paulson - Gold and predicting the subprime crisis
John Paulson is known primarily for his early real estate market crash last year by betting against mortgages Riscani. From the bet he won dolari.Nu 3.7 billion but many people are aware that Paulson made even more money in 2010, investing massive sums in gold. American has made a profit of 4.9 billion U.S. dollars last year, occupying the first position as a top of the best fund managers.