NewsCrude oil struggles at the beginning of the weekPreviousForecastAnalysisCrude oil struggles amid mixed factors that affecting it, where the downgrade moves in Europe have added fears into global markets and hit the confidence among investors, which countered the effect from the Iranian issue which played a great role in keeping crude above $100, however, the effect of downgrade move won in putting crude below this level.
Americans took on more credit card debt during the 2011 holiday season without going overboard, according to statistics from Experian and the Federal Reserve. Government officials announced figures from November that show a $20 billion spike in consumer spending, the biggest holiday rebound in over a decade.
Though auto sales played a major part in the holiday spending surge, researchers say a combination of favorable weather and deep discounts encouraged many Americans to float at least some of their purchases on credit cards. Retail credit cards and zero percent APR credit cards helped inspire a 4 percent boost in consumer goods sales.
The Federal Reserve’s announcement echoes results from a new consumer study commissioned by credit reporting bureau Equifax. Americans’ overall credit card balances still represent a sharp drop from their all-time highs in the fall of 2008, according to Equifax’s latest National Credit Trends Report.
Indian based companies Genpact and World Network Services are currently scoping back office roles at Suncorp/AAMI which includes claims, distribution, recoveries, settlements, administration and finance. There have been reports in the Financial Press that as a result of the current scoping, thousands of Australian Suncorp jobs may be offshored.
In 2006 active FSU members stopped almost 500 back office jobs at Westpac from being offshored to India. It took a strong political, community and workplace campaign to achieve that result. And together we can do it again!
The FSU has contacted State and Federal politicians calling for them to support Australian Suncorp workers whose jobs are being threatened by offshoring plans.
Queensland Labor Senator Claire Moore wrote directly to Patrick Snowball and called on Suncorp to discard any plans to offshore jobs.
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Major indices showed modest gains today as investors anticipated earnings calls from a few major corporations. In economic news, Federal Reserve numbers show that consumer credit in the US increased by more than $20 billion in the month of November, the largest increase in the past decade. In corporate news, Amazon struck a deal with Indiana’s state government to start collecting state taxes there. It’s the latest in a series of negotiations with state governments that the internet retailer has been involved in to face the long unaddressed issue of state sales taxes on online retailers in general. Meanwhile, General Motors is currently on pace to reclaim its title as biggest global autoseller, a position it has not held since Toyota dethroned it in 2008.
When you’ve been struggling with unmanageable debts, entering into an IVA (Individual Voluntary Arrangement) can be a huge relief. Once agreed, it guarantees your debt repayments and other living costs should all be affordable, and if all goes to plan the unsecured debt you can’t afford to repay will be written off, normally after five years.
But what happens if you lose your job? You may not be able to keep up with your agreed repayments – and that can be very worrying. However, there are normally safeguards in place to help ensure your IVA can still continue, if there is a way to do that that’s fair to both you and your lenders.
If you genuinely can’t afford to carry on with your IVA payments for a while because of a period of unemployment, you may be allowed to take a ‘payment break’. This break might last as long as six months, during which time you’ll hopefully find another job. Full post…
After a failed IPO earlier this year, Russia’s biggest airport Domodedovo is up for sale.
The Interfax news agency says Goldman Sachs have been appointed to oversee the sale, which has not been confirmed by the current airport’s representatives.
At the time of the proposed IPO Goldman Sachs valued the airport at something between $3.5-7.5 billion. Even though only 25% of the airport was up for grabs, the owners aborted the process saying the price was not good enough.
Ekaterina Andriyanova analyst from Rye, Man & Gor Securities thinks that in the current unstable market the asking price may not exceed $3,5 bln.“Goldman Sachs is very likely to manage the sale, because it has already taken part in the airport IPO arrangement. The conditions of the deal as the deal itself aren’t clear yet, but it’s obvious that airport being a strategic facility can’t be sold to an overseas company”.
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