attractive. For instance, the United States economy has not registered any significant growth for the last three years. The 2011 second quarter results indicated that gross domestic product improved by 1%. At the same time, there was slight increase in business fixed investment sector. This was mainly attributed to good performance in software and equipment. In general, the economy seems to be headed for recovery (United Nations, 2010). There were increased product and services exports as well as over
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TextRoad Publication ISSN 2090-4304 Journal of Basic and Applied Scientific Research www.textroad.com Factors Affecting the Price of Gold in Malaysia Hanif Zakaria, Nabilah Abdul Shukur, Salwani Affandi, Wan Mansor Wan Mahmood Faculty of Business Management Universiti Teknologi MARA, Dungun, Terengganu, Malaysia Received: March 9, 2015 Accepted: June 16, 2015 ABSTRACT Gold is a precious metal which serves as both financial and real assets. The value of gold in the society goes more
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factors, industry-related uncertainties and some firm-specific uncertainties. -Endogenous- Uncertainties that arise from within the firm, and include managerial perceptions, attitudes and organizational perspectives. -Top two exogenous risks facing business leaders and policy makers for 2012 and the next decade would be severe income disparity (The unequal distribution of household or individual income across the various participants in the economy) and chronic fiscal imbalances (situation where all
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goods and services that it purchases, it is engaging in fiscal policy. The primary economic impact of any change in the government budget is felt by particular groups make tax cut for families with children, for example, raises the disposable income of such families. Discussions of fiscal policy, however, usually focus on the effect of changes in the government budget on the overall economy on such macroeconomic variables as GNP and unemployment and inflation. Fiscal Policy also can be explained
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Management and Strategic Competitiveness Name Institution Date General environment A business is impacted by the environment it functions in and the success of the business depends on the way it is able to adjust to its environment. The difficulty of this actuality is made even more complicated by the many diverse business environments. There are situations or events that occur and can either affect a business positively or negatively. These events and situations are known as environmental factors
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MP A R Munich Personal RePEc Archive Bank-specific, industry-specific and macroeconomic determinants of bank profitability Panayiotis Athanasoglou and Sophocles Brissimis and Matthaios Delis Bank of Greece June 2005 Online at http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/32026/ MPRA Paper No. 32026, posted 5. July 2011 14:01 UTC BANK OF GREECE BANK-SPECIFIC, INDUSTRY-SPECIFIC AND MACROECONOMIC DETERMINANTS OF BANK PROFITABILITY Panayiotis P. Athanasoglou Sophocles N. Brissimis Matthaios D. Delis
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firms like IBM, HP, Sony, Ericsson, Cisco etc. Initially, Solectron manufactured a wide range of products for its customers in many business segments like Networking, Telecommunications, Computers, Computer peripherals, avionics, consumer electronics, GPS etc. As Solectron grew, it expanded its services so much so that by the end of 90s it had three strategic business units: * Technology Solutions, which provided technology building blocks which helped customers minimise time-to-market for new
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Insight Report The Global Competitiveness Report 2014–2015 Klaus Schwab, World Economic Forum Insight Report The Global Competitiveness Report 2014–2015 Full Data Edition Professor Klaus Schwab World Economic Forum Editor Professor Xavier Sala-i-Martín Columbia University Chief Advisor of The Global Competitiveness and Benchmarking Network © 2014 World Economic Forum World Economic Forum Geneva The Global Competitiveness Report 2014–2015: Full Data Edition is
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The Current Situation Facing the British Steel Industry Andreea-Adina Criclevit 03.04.2016 This report aims to critically analyse and evaluate the current situation facing the British Steel Industry using contemporary information and a combination of theories such as ‘The International Product Life Cycle’ and ‘Porter’s Diamond of National Advantage’. Background: Steel is a vital material in the process of economic expansion and it has been very important for the society, considering that the
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Table of contest Executive Summary..............................................................................2 Introduction..........................................................................................3 Objective................................................................................................4 Roadmap of a European Banking Union............................................5 A Two-region Euro area model...........................................................5 Analyse
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