When bitcoin was first heard in 2010, it couldn’t have been more inviting: a virtual currency being used to buy everything: from arms and drugs to cupcakes and food. The Blockchain, the technology behind the bitcoin, promises to reshape the world that we know, getting rid of intermediaries and making many processes faster and safer. One…
The 26th of October 2015, OJSC Transaero Airlines, a Russian airline company, ceased its operations after 24 years. As of 03 September 2015, the Board of Directors of Aeroflot-Russian Airlines PJSC, the Russia’s flagship carrier, developed and approved a proposal for restructuring Transaero and to transfer the operational management to Aeroflot, ensuring corporate control over…
Looking back to the M&A activity in Germany, the total deal value surged from quarter to quarter in 2015 reaching €51.9bn, up by 5.8% YTD 2015 from the value YTD 2014 (€49.1bn). After the negative performance during H1 2015, a decrease of 24% with respect to 2014 (€32.6bn), the lowest value of M&A activity on…
Oil stock piles have increased to a record of almost 3 billion barrels because of strong production in OPEC and elsewhere, potentially deepening the rout in prices, according to the International Energy Agency. This “massive cushion has inflated” on record supplies from Iraq, Russia and Saudi Arabia, even as world fuel demand grows at the fastest…
The time series analysis is set of statistical methods used to describe the time course of a phenomenon, explain it, identifying its generating mechanism and possible relationships with other phenomena, decompose the series into its unobservable components and predict the future trend of the phenomenon.To analyze a time series, could be used several software. In…
“Lending Club” is the world’s largest credit marketplace, a peer-to-peer lending company where borrowers access lower interest rate loans through a fast and easy online – or mobile – interface while investors provide the capital to enable many of the loans in exchange for earning interest. As of September 2014, the platform has originated over…
INTRODUCTION The zero interest rate policy [ZIRP] is a monetary tool used by central banks to jump-start the engine of a slowing economy. By reducing the interest rate near to zero, central bank promotes greater leveraging to invest and boost asset prices. It is important to note that there are 2 types of interest rates;…
The private equity firm Silver Lake Partners, Michael Dell and the strategic partner Microsoft Corporation, on the 5th of February 2013, carried out one of the largest leverage buyout transaction since the financial crisis of 2008, worth $24bn, a risky bet for stopping the decline in the business of laptops and desktops and focusing on…
During this year investors have faced many difficulties to deliver the expected returns to their clients. However, these are some hints for all the investors out there. 10. COMPUTERS – PERIPHERAL EQUIPMENT On average these companies have performed poorly this year, with an YTD Performance of -22.31%. Computer peripheral equipment have faced one of their…
“Our business in the third quarter was clearly more difficult than anticipated” said Nick Woodman, GoPro Founder and CEO. GoPro posted revenue and earnings below analysts’ expectations as well as reported a guidance for the 4th quarter below the street consensus. Investors are concerned about the capacity of innovation of the company and about the…
Founded in 1937 under the dictatorship of Adolf Hitler as the “People’s Car”, Volkswagen had immediately the ambition to be accessible to all, and therefore had the goal to be sold on a large scale. This is the reason why, diesel -gate scandal involving the global automobile giant, has made so much noise. Retracing the steps regarding…
Registering a 0.5% economic growth in the first quarter, the Eurozone started the 2015 with a modest expansion, but, due to the Grexit turbulence, during the second quarter the economy decelerated to a 0.4% growth figure. A positive influence was mainly due to the favorable developments in the external sector, but a weak private consumption…
The long summer of commodities The raw materials were undergoing a very long tricky period with sharp falls in prices. The crisis of raw materials can be explained both by the supply side, where there were many materials in a presently overcapacity, as well as the demand side, where the change of China’s growth model…
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