Category Archives: Regional News

German Real Estate Market

In the third quarter of 2010, 2.9 billion Euros were invested in the Germany in the residential real estate portfolio. This is the results of a study which was conducted by BNP Paribas Real Estate. “The trend in the first half of 2010 was rising investment volumes. This trend slowed in the third quarter of…

Unicredit SpA, Starts Negotiations on Trade Union-Bank Redundancies

Today, negotiations started between the Unicredit unions and the business delegation on redundancies due to Unicredit’s reorganization plan. Due to pressures from major Italian shareholders who want the bank to invest more in Italy, there is a push for a reorganization of the bank and a renewed investment strategy. The union sources indicated that various…

Vital Signs Reporting on the Strengths of Italian Economy

The Edison Foundation and The Symbola Foundation have jointly developed a bi-monthly online newsletter which measures and highlights the strengths of Italian society and the Italian economic system. The newsletter ‘Vital Signs’, also published on the websites of the two Foundations, is determined to become a source of updated and authoritative information on the progress…

Salzgitter AG Increased Revenues Through Renegotiating Contracts

Salzgitter AG Germany’s second largest steel group increased its revenues significantly by raising prices for its core products. “All of our contracts with customers have been renegotiated” at the higher prices, said Chief Financial Officer Heinz Jörg Fuhrmann of the Börsen-Zeitung. This means that almost all of Salzgitter’s products have achieved a significant revenue increase…

With Government Rescue Banks Earns a Lot

For the taxpayer in the financial crisis, rescued banks according to a report stand to earn a lot . About 200 bankers from money houses with government aid would reap more than 500,000 euros a year,  the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sunday newspaper said in a preliminary report. Although tens of millions in salaries are extremely rare…

Four Mutual Funds That are Adapted to Markets

Economic uncertainty makes you fearful, but you do not want to settle for guaranteed investment returns anemic? You might turn to some diversified mutual funds, which are given the ability to quickly change the composition of their portfolios according to market developments. Depending on the context, they may adopt a more conservative or more daring….

Riester and Rürup promotion reaches its target

If one wanted to describe the prototype, that refers to the Riester promotion , he would look at the groups that have a superior distribution (as an analysis of the Mannheim Research Institute Economics of Aging, shows), based on a representative survey on savings behavior. Accordingly, last year 37 percent of 18 – to 35-…

France Has Subscribed Itself To Slow Economic Outlook for 2011

The French government has lowered  its economic growth forecast for 2011 from 2.5% to 2% this past Friday. This change occurred after an economic meeting in Brégançon near Marseille (south), according to AFP. “The economic growth achieved in the first half of 2010, will allow a forecast of 2% for 2011,” said the French presidency,…

Teslin’s Core strategy to Deliver Strong Outperformance

Return and risk go hand in hand of course in a straight line.  Smallcap shares generally have high yields but sometimes also higher risks. Fund Manager Frederik van Beuningen Museum in Teslin proves that a sound strategy is the high returns can be achieved without high risk . What in the vessel is not sour…

Italian Mutual Funds In the Red

MILAN, Italy – Mutual Funds in Italy have lost 1.889 billion Euros since the start of July, entering what many consider a dark period for investors. In June as opposed top July the loss was 1.176 Euros. The current trend appears to differ greatly from what was seen between January and July of this year…