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Top 10 Best Companies To Work

Kal — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:03:26 +0000

Here are the CNN list of 10 Best Companies to work for in America for 2008. 1. Google 2. Quicken Loans 3. Wegmans Food Markets 4. Edward Jones 5. Genentech 6. Cisco Systems 7. Starbucks 8. Qualcomm 9. Goldman Sachs 10. Methodist Hospital System [ CNN - Top 50 employers ]

10 Most Powerful Business Women - Fortune Ranking

Kal — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:57:55 +0000

Here are the list of Fortune’s annual ranking of America’s leading 50 Most Powerful Business Women 1. Indra Nooyi 2. Irene Rosenfeld 3. Pat Woertz 4. Anne Mulcahy 5. Angela Braly 6. Andrea Jung 7. Susan Arnold 8. Oprah Winfrey 9. Brenda Barnes 10. Ursula Burns [ 50 Most Powerful Women ] Tags :Andrea Jung, Angela Braly, Anne Mulcahy, Brenda Barnes, Fortune Powerful Women, Indra Nooyi, Irene [...]

Corporate Bankruptcy Under U.S. Law - Chapter 11 and Chapter 7

Kal — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:48:53 +0000

Here are the 2 types of corporate bankruptcy under U.S. law. Chapter 11 bankruptcy, allows a company to continue to operate as it sheds debts and contracts it can not afford. Chapter 7 bankruptcy, the company goes out of business fairly rapidly as its assets are sold off to try to satisfy its creditors. [ Via CNN [...]

Japan Economy Officially In Recession

Kal — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 08:30:42 +0000

Japan , the world’s second-largest economy is in a recession officially. Japans gross domestic product has fallen by 0.4 percent this year, pushing Japan into its first recession since 2001. Japan joined Germany and Italy on the list of major economies that are now officially in recession. The last time Japan fell into recession was in 2001 [...]

RBI Cuts Repo Rate by 100 bps to 8%

Kal — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 13:42:44 +0000

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) today lowered the repo rate by 100 basis points to 8 % as against 9 % earlier. Repo rate is the rate at which the RBI lends to the banks. The decision was aimed at improving the liquidity position in the country. Tags :100 basis points, banks, bps, liquidity position, [...]

What is a Repo Rate?

Kal — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 13:41:41 +0000

Repo Rate is the rate at which Reserve Bank of India (RBI) lends to the banks. Whenever the banks have any shortage(money to lend) of funds they can borrow it from RBI. If the repo rate is reduced, it will rate will help banks to get money at a cheaper rate. Tags :banks, money, rbi, repo rate, [...]

World Chess Championship - 14 October and 2 November 2008

Kal — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 18:27:44 +0000

The World Chess Championship 2008 is a twelve game match between the World Chess Champion, Viswanathan Anand, and the previous World Champion Vladimir Kramnik. The match takes place in Bonn, Germany, between 14 October and 2 November 2008 Tags :Chess Championship, Viswanathan Anand, Vladimir Kramnik, World Chess Championship

Indian Nobel Prize Winners

Kal — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 18:22:43 +0000

Here is Indian nobel prize winners list Rabindranath Tagore (Nobel Prize in Literature - 1913) C. V. Raman - Chandrashekar Venkata Raman (Nobel Prize in Physics -1930) Hargobind Khorana (Nobel Prize in Medicine -1968) Mother Teresa (Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 ) Subramanian Chandrasekhar (Nobel Prize in Physics 1983) Amartya Sen (Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences 1998) Tags :Amartya Sen, [...]

Different Ways of Investing Money

Kal — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 21:23:46 +0000

Bonds Stocks Mutual Funds Forex Market Real Estate Tags :bonds, different ways, mutual funds, Real Estate, stocks, ways of investing money

How much is Trillion, Billion, Million ?

Kal — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 21:23:08 +0000

1 Trillion is equal to 1000 billion 1000 billion = 1 trillion 1 followed by 12 zeros Units Names 1 One 1,000 Thousand 1,000,000 Million ( = 1,000 thousands) 1,000,000,000 Billion ( = 1,000 millions) 1,000,000,000,000 Trillion ( = 1,000 billions) Tags :Billion, Million, one million, Trillion