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How Currency Exchange Rates Effect Global Business

The key to this transition is selling the client on letting you take responsibility for how you deploy your resources to achieve the project objectives.

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Trees are everywhere around us but only some of us take the pain of noticing this trees and knowing what they are all about. There was much to look forward to on the economic and business front. The Philippines is a country of ups and downs of conspicuous consumption of devastating poverty, hunger and suffering. The economy is basically agricultural, with rice, corn, and kamote (sweet potatoes) the staple food crops. thehellenicvoice Key cash crops include coconuts, fruits and vegetables, sugar, tobacco, and abaca (the famous “Manila hemp” used for rope making). In aggregate, about two-thirds of Filipinos continue to depend on the agricultural sector. The Philippines is rich in natural resources, as reflected in the fact that foreign exchange earnings … Read the rest

Being a small company is a big plus when you’re at ZIM

Over the last 3 years, ZIM, one of the world’s 11 most profitable shipping companies, has set itself apart from the old-school shipping industry, complex processes, outmoded technology and sluggish response to changes.

In 2021, ZIM stands out as a dynamic technology driven company, that puts customer and employee experience at the center. This transformation has been powered by an advanced digital systems architecture and adoption of agile, creative and innovative work methods.

This means that the ZIM of today is a highly attractive employer, much closer in nature to leading high-tech companies such as Google or Microsoft, than its shipping peers. This is especially true given its headquarters which are located in the heart of Haifa’s high-tech zone and its strong global presence.

ZIM’s Glassdoor rating of 4.4 – well above the global average of 3.4/5 – is testimony to the impact of this change and the wave of … Read the rest

TSX Finishes Negative on Health-Care Weakness

Equities in Canada’s largest centre were below par Thursday, owing largely to weakness in health-care and tech concerns.

The TSX remained negative 19.76 points to close Thursday at 19,290.98

The Canadian dollar gained 0.71 cents to 82.22 cents U.S.

Trillium Pharmaceuticals led health-care issues lower, parting with $1.01, or 8.3%, to $11.23, while Canopy Growth dipped $1.79, or 5.7%, to $29.50.

Among tech plays, Lightspeed POS slid $4.70, or 6%, to $74.48, while Hut 8 Mining let go of 48 cents, or 7.7%, to $5.72.

In the industrial sector, Ballard Power Systems dropped $1.01, or 5.3%, to $18.20, while Westport Fuel skidded 49 cents, or 6.2%, to $7.42.

Gold stocks tried to lift spirits, with Barrick Gold picking up $1.29, or 4.7%, to $28.59, while Kinross Gold jumped 31 cents, or 3.5%, to $9.,25.

In other resource stocks, Endeavour Silver tacked on 69 cents, or 10%, to $7.60, while SSR … Read the rest

Mining Company Raspadskaya Chooses Orange Business Services IoT Solution

IoT solution tracks unloading process to ensure separated coal grades
Process tracked at the warehouse in real time

Raspadskaya, a Russian coal mining company partly owned by British steel making and mining group EVRAZ, has deployed an Orange Business Services bespoke IoT solution at its Russian coal preparation factory.

The system plays a key role in minimizing the risk of mixing different grades and types of coal, thereby tainting supplies.

Raw coal is transported to different unloading bays in Raspadskya’s warehouse – a 40,000 square meter open-air storage facility – from its open-pit mines and is tagged for different grades of coal concentrate. The challenge Raspadskya has is making sure different grades of coal are not mixed. Mixing, due to human error, negatively affects the quality of its product.

Tracking truck deliveries with IoT

To ensure loads are put in the correct locations, Orange Business Services deployed telemetry sensors and … Read the rest

How The Government Uses Fiscal Policy To Influence The Economy

Bernie Sanders will end up being the nominee or him and Joe Biden will be on the same ticket representing the Democratic Party at the convention in July.

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The global recession prompted due to several causes is a ghastly piece of news for each and every business in every country throughout the world. Professional guest posting services publish quality content on relevant blogs or sites. This helps to get targeted traffic from online readers seeking to know about you, your site and business. The business also gets the opportunity to know where the business is headed in the future. To optimize the results of blogging, service providers ensure the guest articles are posted on reliable and relevant domains. The key to unlocking sales is to build a strong relationship with your customer. This builds trust and allows the customer to begin to understand the benefits of the … Read the rest

Finance Ministry Reduces 2021 Growth Forecast to 2.3%

BANGKOK (NNT) – The Finance Ministry has reduced its 2021 economic growth forecast for a second time to 2.3% from 2.8% growth, after a third wave of coronavirus infections struck Thailand this month.

Fiscal Policy Office (FPO) Director-General Kulaya Tantitemit said the ministry slashed its forecast for the number of foreign tourists to only 2 million this year from 5 million it had predicted three months ago.

She said the expected fewer tourists will have quite an impact as that will cut tourism money to just over 100 billion baht from 260 billion baht previously projected.

The latest outbreak has seen half of its overall cases reported this month alone and came as the country was preparing to reopen more broadly to foreign tourists, as vaccinations increase globally.

The Director-General said inoculations at home and abroad could provide some support. The distribution of vaccines is very important as it will … Read the rest

Dow Jumps Nearly 100 to New Record

U.S. stocks rebounded on Wednesday as strong earnings results and economic optimism pushed the Dow Jones Industrial Average to a record high.

The Dow Jones Industrials gained 97.31 points to end the session at 34,230.34.

The S&P 500 eked higher 2.93 points to 4,167.59.

The NASDAQ Composite gave up earlier gains and finished behind Tuesday’s close by 51.08 points to 13,582.42, as Amazon, Netflix and Facebook all dipped more than 1%.

General Motors shares climbed over 4% after earnings blew past expectations. Activision Blizzard traded higher by 3% after strong results.

Commodity stocks jumped. Chevron and Dow were the two biggest gainers in the Dow Jones. ConocoPhillips popped more than 5% thanks in part to an upgrade to buy from Bank of America.

The Biden administration announced Wednesday that it supports waiving intellectual patent protections for COVID-19 vaccines, as countries struggle to manufacture the life-saving doses.

Stocks of major pharmaceutical … Read the rest

IoT and the environment: the green enterprise

By Jim Morrish, Founding Partner, Transforma Insights.

The Internet of Things will be one of the defining technological themes of the 2020s, and beyond. Meanwhile the moderation of mankind’s environmental impact will be one of the defining societal themes over the same time period. Transforma Insights recently undertook an extensive analysis of the relationship between these two epoch-defining concepts: how will the adoption of IoT technologies impact the environment?

One of our key conclusions is that this is a game of two halves: consumer vs enterprise. In a consumer environment, IoT capabilities tend to be built-in to devices in order to improve a product proposition with support for new services or capabilities. Examples include televisions that can connect to the internet to display on-demand streaming content, and a range of audio-visual equipment. But any television displaying streaming content will at the same time drive usage of telecommunications networks, and also … Read the rest

Creative Problem Solving In Perspective

Providing them with a good working environment and compensating them based on their hardwork (which I think is not practices here in the Philippines).

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According to some experts, workers compensation should be handled by a specialist to make sure that the company will stay up-to-date with all relevant legislation changes. • If you have account data coming from multiple sources then you should consider applying deduplication logic to avoid migrating redundant records into SFDC. You can license deduplication software tools from SFDC partners like Demand Tools, RingLead, and Active Prime, or you can use project oriented services such as InsideScoops Customer Cleanse service if you dont want to maintain software over time. Customer Cleanse can also match account records to the D&B DUNS # (see description below) which will add any missing record data elements, update the latest data on revenues and employees, and append (add) additional … Read the rest

NASDAQ Sustains Worst Day Since March

The S&P 500 fell on Tuesday amid selling in Big Tech and other high-growth stocks, erasing the benchmark’s strong start to the month.

The Dow Jones Industrials nosed ahead 19.8 points to 34,133.03, thanks to strong performance in Dow Inc and Caterpillar.

The broad market slid 28 points to 4,164.66.

The NASDAQ Composite dissolved 281.61 points, or 1.9%, to 13,633.50. Pressure on some of the globe’s largest technology companies sent the tech-heavy index to its worst day since March.

Apple, the largest publicly traded company in the U.S., fell 3.5%. Google-parent Alphabet lost 1.6%, Facebook shed 1.3% and electric car maker Tesla dropped 1.7%. Investors did not spare the market’s chipmakers, with Nvidia dipping 3.3%, and Intel losing 0.6%.

Reasons for the downward pressure varied, but strategists cited a mix of concerns about rising inflation, fears the Federal Reserve may have to taper monetary stimulus earlier than telegraphed, and the … Read the rest