Market Jitters Over Troubles in Greece and Spain
Summary:
European market suffered a jittery session on Friday as concern grows about the economic future of Spain and Greece. Spain's main index is showing some signs of recovery after losing more than 2% of its value earlier on in the day. Money has instead been put into more safe investments such as German bonds. Issues in confidence with European banks werent help by Moody's cut the credit ratings of 16 Spanish banks.
The View:
So the worries continue to grow this can have a very negative impact across Europe and close to home, a collapse of Santander such as will have a huge effect on the UK banking sector, as Abbey and Alliance & Leicester are all by the Spanish giant. Europe needs to sort these issues out and fast if not Europe will suffer.
Does this worry you?, How do you think this will affect the rest of Europe and more importantly the UK.
Full Article:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18113600
Northern Rock rescue could cost taxpayer £2bn
Summary:
The UK taxpayer could lose about£2bn one the assets of collapsed bank Northern Rock are wound down, a public watchdog has estimated. The National Audit Office also stated that last year the tax payer lost £480m when the bank was sold last year. The NAO estimated it could take years to sell of Northern Rock's assets and when they eventually do get sold it will be a £2bn loss to the tax payer.
The View:
As a taxpayer I am a bit annoyed at the fact that money is not spent more wisely, I understand that banks were in trouble when but surely they could have come up with other ways of dealing with it, like the saying goes I guess if you throw enough money at it the problem will go away that certainly did not happen this time.
Full Article:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18106848
The Search For The UK's youngest innovators is on:
Summary:
The IPO has launched this years Cracking Ideas competition and is inviting children across the country to use their creativity to invent a special space-themed gizmo. 12 regional finalists in different age groups will be named Britains youngest innovators. The competition is open to children aged for to sixteen. By taking part kids will also learn how patents, trademarks, copyright and design play a part in everyday life.
The View:
It seems like a lot of fun for children to take part in the competition and it is could that kids are made wary of such things and patents which are becoming ever increasingly more important in the business world, if you have children encourage them to take part it will be a good opportunity and they might even win.
Full Article:
http://www.freshbusinessthinking.com/news.php?NID=14131&Title=The+search+is+on+for+UK%92s+youngest+innovators ]
Facebook IPO Day
Summary:
Well its a difficult story to get away from Facebook is official going public today on the NASDAQ stock exchange with a valuation of a possible $100bn that means Facebook's 901m users will be worth over $111 each. Facebook is offering 422m in the range of $28-$35 a share, there is a lot of buzz about the Facebook IPO but there is also ever-growing concern such as the companies long-term plans on how to monetize on their users, as ad revenue per user is declining and they still have to come up with an effective away on how to monetize mobile.
The View:
A lot of buzz about this IPO maybe that's why Europe is suffering people pulling their money out of European stock and buying shares in Facebook, it be interesting to see what will happen the business programmes are all over it today.
Is Facebook all hype? Another dot-com bubble cometh?
Full Article:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18105608
Summary:
European market suffered a jittery session on Friday as concern grows about the economic future of Spain and Greece. Spain's main index is showing some signs of recovery after losing more than 2% of its value earlier on in the day. Money has instead been put into more safe investments such as German bonds. Issues in confidence with European banks werent help by Moody's cut the credit ratings of 16 Spanish banks.
The View:
So the worries continue to grow this can have a very negative impact across Europe and close to home, a collapse of Santander such as will have a huge effect on the UK banking sector, as Abbey and Alliance & Leicester are all by the Spanish giant. Europe needs to sort these issues out and fast if not Europe will suffer.
Does this worry you?, How do you think this will affect the rest of Europe and more importantly the UK.
Full Article:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18113600
Northern Rock rescue could cost taxpayer £2bn
Summary:
The UK taxpayer could lose about£2bn one the assets of collapsed bank Northern Rock are wound down, a public watchdog has estimated. The National Audit Office also stated that last year the tax payer lost £480m when the bank was sold last year. The NAO estimated it could take years to sell of Northern Rock's assets and when they eventually do get sold it will be a £2bn loss to the tax payer.
The View:
As a taxpayer I am a bit annoyed at the fact that money is not spent more wisely, I understand that banks were in trouble when but surely they could have come up with other ways of dealing with it, like the saying goes I guess if you throw enough money at it the problem will go away that certainly did not happen this time.
Full Article:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18106848
The Search For The UK's youngest innovators is on:
Summary:
The IPO has launched this years Cracking Ideas competition and is inviting children across the country to use their creativity to invent a special space-themed gizmo. 12 regional finalists in different age groups will be named Britains youngest innovators. The competition is open to children aged for to sixteen. By taking part kids will also learn how patents, trademarks, copyright and design play a part in everyday life.
The View:
It seems like a lot of fun for children to take part in the competition and it is could that kids are made wary of such things and patents which are becoming ever increasingly more important in the business world, if you have children encourage them to take part it will be a good opportunity and they might even win.
Full Article:
http://www.freshbusinessthinking.com/news.php?NID=14131&Title=The+search+is+on+for+UK%92s+youngest+innovators ]
Facebook IPO Day
Summary:
Well its a difficult story to get away from Facebook is official going public today on the NASDAQ stock exchange with a valuation of a possible $100bn that means Facebook's 901m users will be worth over $111 each. Facebook is offering 422m in the range of $28-$35 a share, there is a lot of buzz about the Facebook IPO but there is also ever-growing concern such as the companies long-term plans on how to monetize on their users, as ad revenue per user is declining and they still have to come up with an effective away on how to monetize mobile.
The View:
A lot of buzz about this IPO maybe that's why Europe is suffering people pulling their money out of European stock and buying shares in Facebook, it be interesting to see what will happen the business programmes are all over it today.
Is Facebook all hype? Another dot-com bubble cometh?
Full Article:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18105608
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