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It is money that governs life today. It is again money that forms the base of business, national/international trade. It is money that is the pedestal of survival. The utilization of money today is beyond measure. Money is measured in terms of currencies and currencies differ from nation to nation. The currency exchange rates also differ; the value may be equal or more or less depending on the currency. Millions of dollars, pounds, levs, pesos, euros, yens, francs, and more currencies are exchanged for trade, travel, and the like across the world. There is also a particular sector dedicated to the trading of currencies, termed as forex trading or foreign exchange trading. And currency exchange rates and currency converters are the life blood of this segment, leave aside their usage for other purposes. Forex traders also rely on currency exchange news to stay updated about the rise and fall of currency values.

You can know the foreign exchange rates using an online currency calculator. Business travelers and even leisure travelers including companies that deal in import and export find the online currency converter very useful. You need not have the software downloaded in your computer. All you need to do is to visit a financial platform or financial news portal that displays the online currency converter facilitating users to use it and find the currency exchange rates. Filling the details – it varies from portal to portal – but mainly you will have to fill three fields, one is the currency that you want to convert, the other is the currency which you want to get converted to and the third is the amount. Read the rest of this entry »

The outsourcing industry has been defined just as much by acquisitions, as much as it has been defined by mega deals: think Xerox (NYSE:XRX) and Affiliated Computer Services. This November, several companies have announced acquisitions of other firms in a bid to redefine their services, and expand their business, and perhaps to give rise to the next Xerox-ACS caliber acquisition, within different industries including legal process outsourcing, IT outsourcing and call center outsourcing.

New York headquartered company, Accenture (NYSE:ACN), has acquired business process management services provider, Knowledge Rules. The company announced on the 2nd of November that it has acquired the Philadelphia-based company to utilize Knowledge Rules’ expertise in PegaSystems. According to Accenture’s Chief Technology Architect Paul Daugherty, “This acquisition immediately increases our capacity to implement Pegasystems-based solutions, and will enable us to train and develop more people, more quickly.” A few days later on the 10th of November, Accenture announced that it has successfully acquired Beijing-based software company, Mogenesis, a provider of mobile software outsourcing services. Following this, on the 19th of November, Accenture also completed its acquisition of Ariba, Inc.’s (NASDAQ:ARBA) Ariba Sourcing Services, an acquisition that had previously been announced on the 6th of October. Hot on the wheels of these developments and Accenture once again advised that they are acquiring another company, CAS Computer Anwendungs-und Sytemberatung AG (CAS). A Kaiserslautern, Germany based company, CAS is a provider of customer relationship management (CRM) and mobility software provider.

It has certainly been a busy month for Accenture as it has been acquiring companies left and right, but other companies have been making notable acquisitions as well.

Financial news and information provider Thomson Reuters (NYSE:TRI) announced on the 18th of November that it is acquiring legal process outsourcing services provider, Pangea3. Commenting on the acquisition, Peter Warwick, Thomson Reuters President and CEO said that, “[Thomson Reuters] will now bring to the legal marketplaAce a responsive, high-quality, transformative resource for a broad range of legal support work. This is particularly important as law firms and general counsel adjust to the realities of the ‘new normal,’ where efficiency, quality and responsiveness are paramount,” signaling Thomson Reuters entrée into the highly-competitive legal process outsourcing business. Read the rest of this entry »

Go ahead, boycott BP. Not only do you get to send a message to the company that has proved incapable of stopping the undersea gusher unleashed on April 20, but (unless you live in a one-gas-station town) you can do it without much pain to yourself.

Drive right on by the BP station and pull up to the pumps from Exxon, the company responsible for the Exxon Valdez oil spill of 1989 and, more recently, one of the biggest corporate funders of the movement to tar the science of climate change. Exxon also managed to reduce the billion in punitive damages awarded by an Anchorage jury for the Valdez disaster to 7.5 million; the Valdez fishermen and other victims have still not been made whole. (Fun fact: to protect itself in case the original judgment was affirmed, Exxon got a line of credit from JP Morgan, which the bank then parlayed into the first credit default swap, as recounted in the 2009 book Fool’s Gold by Gillian Tett. These are the exotic financial instruments that helped trigger the Great Recession of 2008–09.)

Or roll into the Texaco or Chevron station (Chevron bought Texaco in 2001). Texaco is being sued by people in Ecuador for contaminating their groundwater, causing hundreds of residents to develop fatal cancers and causing other environmental damage near the Lago Agrio oilfield, where Texaco dumped oil-production waste (18.5 billion gallons into open, unlined pits) for almost 20 years. (For those of you moved by First Amendment issues, Chevron has also gone to court to force filmmaker Joe Berlinger to turn over more than 600 hours of outtake footage he shot for his documentary on the case, titled Crude.) Chevron counters that dumping sludge was standard operating procedure at the time. Read the rest of this entry »

Financial mayhem does affect everyone’s lives and more to those who are linked to the corporate and business world. To keep a check on the financial ups and downs so that it doesn’t affect your life, you can look for ways not to overspend your money or at least saving it over a certain period of time. For creating a budget, for following an organized payment schedule, etc. you can check out using financial calculators. When Internet facility is accessible everywhere, even in the comfort of your home space, why not avail its benefits! Surfing online will ship you to a number of online financial sites that also present online financial calculators. So, you do have the facility to plan your personal finance by using financial calculators online. In addition such websites like Reuters also come handy with personal finance news. Watching finance news online or calculating your money in financial calculators is just a click away!

If you want to know about gold investment or other financial products like health insurance, life insurance, etc., watch personal finance news. It is the dream of one and all to own a home. Owning a home in a city, especially a metro, may prove very expensive; moreover you cannot buy land in a congested city in India. Flats or apartments are the choice; home loan is then the answer. Personal finance news in India helps you know about all home loan information like interest rates offered by various banks and other benefits associated with it. Home loan and other financial products also provide you tax benefits. Read the rest of this entry »

It is said that the intelligent finance planner never becomes a victim of financial deficiency. The statement is no doubt true as validated by thousands of examples and those revealed by personal finance news. Personal finance is all about your individual finance, spending your money wisely and saving as well as investing the same for future gains. The scope also encompasses your credits in the market like the loans you may take for buying a home, a car or for sending your ward to a foreign university for pursuing a bright career-oriented course. It also includes your investment portfolio like investing in stock market, mutual funds, etc. in addition to life insurance, retirement planning, and lots more.

Using financial calculators enables the planner to calculate the exact amount and maintaining a record of the same so that overspending or wasteless spending do not take place and that all loan amounts are paid as scheduled. There are different ranges of financial calculators, viz. credit calculator, insurance calculator, real estate calculator, etc. A credit calculator enables one to calculate the amount required to pay unpaid balances, i.e. the real cost if the minimum balance is cleared. An insurance calculator enables one to calculate the life insurance required including estimation of drug savings, medicare prescriptions, etc. Calculating housing investment amount, mortgage payments, credit card payments, etc. are other aspects that financial calculators cover. If you are doing your personal finance planning, do watch personal finance news regularly so that you stay updated about what is happening in the world of personal finance. You can also watch financial news online if you have access to the Internet. Read the rest of this entry »

Beijing time May 8 news according to foreign media reports, in search of the next Facebook, Twitter Groupon and driven by the Internet startups attract to most large-scale investment risk. The Internet company in silent again after ten years, the prosperity of the show worrying.

Thomson Reuters its Intelligence data shows, the future for the first four months have more than 50 billion dollars of global risk fund infuse young Internet companies.

Although amount when first bubble than less, but if as such trends continue, 2011 will set since 2000, the wind is cast scale Internet. The data shows, Internet startups in 2000 by wind cast the total billion.

Recent investment boom have first network some features, marveling boom has the “conceptual released their own web site, on the assumption that” startups with potential investors the hot market competition by Facebook and LinkedIn, establishment of the social media market is an example.

As a San Francisco software provider Hearsay ShiZongWei (CEO, Clara Shih) enjoy Internet investment boom brings convenience. ShiZongWei says, the company has raised million, and these funds is furious. Read the rest of this entry »

Ministru prezidenta Valda Dombrovska darba pusdienas ar vadošajiem Apvienotās Karalistes medijiem (BBC News, Bloomberg, The Economist, Financial Times, Dow Jones, Thomson Reuters, Monocle un citiem)

China nearly doubled its number of billionaires to 115, while Russia and Brazil posted two-third jumps to 101 and 30, respectively, Forbes said in its annual list of the world’s richest people.

It was the first time any country outside the United States, which has 413 billionaires, had more than 100. Moscow is now home to the most people on the list with 79 billionaires, easily outstripping New York, which has just 58.

The world’s richest man, Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim, retained his crown for the second year in a row and made more money than any of the other 1,209 billionaires in the past year: .5 billion, taking his fortune to billion.

Russia’s billionaire growth was attributed to a commodities boom. Brazil also benefited from higher commodity prices, as well as stricter disclosure rules and a stronger currency. In China and India, which has 55 billionaires after adding six, strong economies helped create wealth from a range of sectors.

“The bottom line is BRICs, commodities and Asia Pacific,” Forbes Chief Executive Steve Forbes told a news conference on Wednesday. “There is a global commodities boom. But as we should have learned … commodities can go up very sharply, they can go down very sharply.” Read the rest of this entry »

“What the heck?” That’s what I blurted this morning after reading an article about a Newspaper in Pasadena that hired two journalists from India to cover news 12,841 km away from their homeland.

Hey, I’m all for saving money… but this is getting a little out of hand… isn’t it? I have a hard enough time convincing my clients to outsource their operations such as telesales, customer service, and IT projects overseas….and now I read this? I was a little confused on how 2 guys from India can accurately cover the news in California… so I kept on reading…

Turns out it made sense in today’s highly competitive market. Here are some interesting points made by James Macpherson — the paper’s publisher:

“Due to California’s public access laws, virtually all relevant government documents and meetings are available on the Internet,” MacPherson said. In addition, the publication’s staff in Pasadena would record and photograph all the required meetings and interviews and send them to India through e-mail.

Here’s an excerpt from McPherson’s job posting for the position at his publication: “We do not believe that geographic distance between India and California will present insurmountable problems, and that working together with you will result in your development of a keen working knowledge of this city’s affairs. This will result in accurate and authoritative news reports… “

Let’s hope he’s right! Thanks to the good ‘ol Internet everyone can outsource….even our local newspapers! Kinda scary… I know. Turns out that this particular paper — “Pasadena Now” hired two Indian journalists at a combined annual cost of only ,800!! I repeat – TWO Indian journalists at this price! That’s a real bargain if you ask me… I just hope we don’t get an article concerning our City Hall and see a picture of the Taj Mahal in the article instead! Ok, well that won’t happen….but you know what I mean. Read the rest of this entry »

It has been over 135 years that the journey of the Indian capital market started with stock broking activities commenced by the BSE (Bombay Stock Exchange). And the BSE sensex, the value-weighted index comprising of 30 largest and most actively traded stocks started in the New Year of 1986. If you are investing in a BSE stock, you will be required to watch the sensex index often. There are financial news portals that display the latest sensex index besides also carrying detailed reports.

The sensex is today considered the pulse of the Indian capital market not to mention about nifty the other principal index, considered the heart. The calculation of sensex index involves use of a number called the index divisor. This number is used to divide the free float market capitalization of the 30 companies in the index. Comparing of the sensex index over time is made possible by this divisor besides also substituting as the adjustment point for all index adjustments arising out of replacement of scrips, corporate actions, and related paraphernalia. The original base period value of the sensex is linked by this divisor.

What is free float? The phrase may seem a new terminology for the novice investor, though he/she may know how to read the BSE sensex. It is advisable that as beginners, venture into stock trading only once you are equipped with the basics of the market and once you familiarize yourself with all related terminologies. Well, free float refers to shares that are readily available for trading in the market. Generally, determination of market capitalization of a particular company happens with the multiplication of the price of its stock with the number of shares issued by it. And it is this market capitalization multiplied by a free float factor used to find out the free float market capitalization. Read the rest of this entry »

Last week, the Bush administration proposed a three-page bill to bail out Wall Street to the tune of 0 billion. It died in the U.S. House of Representatives earlier this week.

On Friday, though, the House approved a far bigger, broader, and beefier version of the bill–which has ballooned to a remarkable 442 pages. The vote was 263 to 171, with the bulk of the opposition coming from Republicans. Because the Senate already approved the measure, it immediately went to President Bush, who signed it into law.

On the theory that this would be a way to convince previously skeptical Democrats to approve the measure, one large chunk of the bailout bill is devoted to renewable energy, energy-efficient appliances, and so on (the “Energy Improvement and Extension Act of 2008″). The authors lured Republicans with protections from the alternative minimum tax (via the “Tax Extenders and Alternative Minimum Tax Relief Act of 2008″).

That includes, as the New York Post pointed out, millions in tax breaks and related pork for kids’ wooden arrows, Puerto Rican rum producers, auto race tracks, and corporations operating in American Samoa. (The likely explanation for the latter: StarKist has a large tuna-canning operation in American Samoa. And StarKist’s parent company happens to be located in the district of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.) Read the rest of this entry »