Market Sees “Greener” Pastures for Europe’s Debt Crisis World markets achieved their best weekly performance in over two years on Friday. The Dow, S&P 500, and the NASDAQ closed on Friday with gains of 1.5%, 1.7%, and 1.8% respectively. European markets saw the bulls in full action for the week: Britain’s FTSE gained more than […]
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Weekly Market Wrap Up, October 3-7, 2011
Spain and Italy As the European debt crisis concern worsens the U.S. stocks retreated last week marking another week that Europe has affected the American Indexes. The Financial industry has had the biggest decline in the S&P 500. The S&P 500 fell nearly 1% lowering its weekly gain to just above 2% and the Dow […]
Weekly Market Wrap Up, September 26-29, 2011
Weak Quarter As the problems overseas keep mounting, the markets seem to be feeling the effects as the close has marked the worst quarter in years. The Dow fell nearly 150 points to 11,153, or 10 percent loss in the fourth quarter (after a slight serge from the blue-chip stocks helped rally it before Friday’s […]
Online case journal is free international resource for management scholars and practitioners.
The content is excellent—and the price is right. That seems to be the consensus concerning the Spring 2011 issue of the Online Journal of International Case Analysis (OJICA), published by the College of Business Administration at Florida International University (FIU). The journal, offered at no charge, is co-sponsored by FIU’s Center for International Business Education […]
Effective marketing to Hispanics? Yes, you can, Membiela tells audience.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, in 2010 there were 50.5 million Hispanics in the United States, comprising 16 percent of the population, an increase of 43 percent since 2000. If you assume that marketing to this growing segment simply requires translating English words into Spanish, you’re making a critical mistake, according to Roymi V. […]
Weekly Market Wrap Up, September 19-23, 2011
The Global Concern As concern over another global recession intensifies, Asian stocks tumbled last week with its regional index falling to a three-year low. In a Bloomberg report, Tim Shroeders stated “It would be flippan to suggest this is just a blip… The aggressive selling of equity markets seems to reflect a heightened probability that […]
Inaugural FIU Summer Commencement brings recognition to business students.
On August 13, 2011, undergraduate and graduate students at Florida International University (FIU) shared the excitement of the university’s first-ever Summer Commencement. The added ceremony was needed to accommodate the growing number of annual graduates, currently about 10,000. Among the happy new alumni were 426 students from the College of Business Administration’s R. Kirk Landon […]
Weekly Market Wrap Up, September 12-16, 2011
Research In Motion’s Drop With hand devices acquiring a more prominent role in individual’s life every day, Research In Motion( RIMM), the maker of Blackberry, seemed to be destined to become the leader in the industry until very recently. Yet, the inability to adapt to new environments, the increase in competition, and the lack of […]
Weekly Market Wrap Up, September 5-9 , 2011
The Euro Zone and America As concern grows about Greece’s debt crisis, the euro touches a ten year low versus the yen and a six-month low versus the dollar. With the European bank and sovereign credit risk reaching an all-time high the effects are being seen here in the U.S. as the S&P has seen […]
Weekly Market Wrap Up, August 29-September 2, 2011
Exxon Forms Alliance; Crude Oil Prices Fall Due to Jobs Report Last week Exxon Mobil Corporation and Rosneft (Russia’s largest oil producer) formed an Alliance that could potentially generate as much as $500 billion of investments between the two companies, as was stated by Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. Exxon and Rosneft plan to initially […]