The Copper rose sharply on the international stock markets and has made its biggest jump for the last nearly one year after the strong earthquake that hit Chile during the weekend. South American country is the largest copper producer in the world, it is expected a strong earthquake of magnitude 8.8 on the Richter scale to affect the international supply of the metal in the coming weeks. With copper delivery in May rose by 6.2 percent to 3.4870 dollars per pound in today’s times of e-commerce York Stock Market NYMEX. This is the biggest price increase within one day of April last year. The price of the metal rose by 5.6 percent to its highest level in five weeks on the London Metal Exchange from 7 600 dollars per metric ton. Copper is essential for the economy because of its wide use. It is used for wiring for telecommunications networks, manufacturing of pipes for water pipelines, automobiles and computers. This makes it one of the important landmarks of activity in the industrial sector. Economists called the metal “Dr. Copper” because of its ability to suggest trends in the economy. Copper rose by 140 percent in 2009, is presented as better than all the metals used in manufacturing and construction sector. However, increasing the risk of making metal in the next bubble in financial markets.
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The Swiss company Nestle lay a better than expected preliminary report, giving an argument of analysts who firmly pledged the company as a preferred investment in Europe. Revenues from sales of main products of the company rose by 4.1 percent in 2009, indicating stability amid the crisis. This is to bring Nestle revenue of 108 billion Swiss francs (99.91 billion dollars). Preliminary expectations of analysts was for sales growth of 3,9 percent to 105.9 billion francs, transmit CNBC. “The progress over the last year growth of 4,1 per cent against the backdrop of a complex environment shows that we are able to note an increase greater than that of the sector as a whole,” stated the CEO of Nestle Paul Balk. Operating profit of Nestle for the year 2009 amounted to 15.7 billion francs.
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The billionaire investor George Soros said he believes in the ability of Greece to remain in the euro area. He also said that the eyes of market participants are currently targeting the debt problems of several countries, including Greece stands in the foreground. “I believe that Greece will do whatever is necessary to meet the requirements to remain in the euro area,” said Soros told reporters in Jakarta. Among the main reasons the country is fighting for his membership in the euro area is that when the ECB adopts its bonds as collateral for a loan of commercial banks. In the event that the country lost the credit rating, however, its securities will no longer meet the necessary conditions and will not be accepted as collateral. “Support in Greece aims to achieve, I hope the EU, the ECB and the euro area to find a way to finance the country which is not too expensive to support,” said Soros, quoted by Bloomberg.
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The Swiss bank UBS came first profit since Oswald Gryubel assumed leadership of the company a year ago. Net profit for the financial institution for the fourth quarter of 2009 amounted to 1.205 billion Swiss francs (1.1 billion), Reuters reported. This is a significant improvement compared to the same period in 2008 when the bank had a loss of 9.58 billion francs. The improvement is partly due to a tax credit of 480 million Swiss francs, and the reduction of bonuses. However, under pressure from the continuing effects of the global financial crisis led to tax evasion cases in the United States and pressure from other countries for violation of banking secrecy to disclosure of tax crimes, UBS continues to lose the trust of its customers. “We are sure that the measures we took for withdrawal of capital from the bank’s clients are effective, but in the immediate future we expect to continue to draw,” says Oswald Gryubel CEO and Chairman of the Board of Directors Vilidzhar Kasper in a letter to investors.
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The legendary investor George Soros called from Davos to radically reduce the size of banks that are too big to be allowed to fail transmitted BBC. At the World Economic Forum, he spoke in support of U.S. President Barack Obama in his attempts to separate commercial and investment banking. According to him, however, even after such action, most investment banks will still remain too large to fail. To control these banks, all major economies need to rally around strict rules to limit the risk – how much money banks can borrow to invest, “said billionaire. He acknowledges that it will be difficult to determine the exact ceiling on leverage, but that governments have enough time to develop a global regulatory framework. George Soros called the current economic crisis “super bubble” which was created by the system itself, and was the culmination of a series of smaller balloons in the last 25 years, and unsuccessful attempts to remove them. They add balloons were caused by facilitated credit and high financial leverage. As regulators and bankers were wrongly believed that markets are efficient, Soros continued, and were blinded by ideology that they should always be less regulated. And when the bubble burst, governments and regulators to further worsen the situation by reducing interest rates make money cheaper and thus to the mortgage crisis in the United States, which rocked the entire financial system.
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Bill Gates, who is the richest man in the world, said today that the U.S. economy and will take years to recover from the recession ST. Moreover, he added that he expects the taxes in the United States will grow to be able to balance the budget. These forward Reuters, citing an interview, which gave Microsoft co-founder of ABC. Gates also warned about excessive government interference in financial matters and urged the President Barack Obama to focus on longer term goals such as education and prevention of the consequences of the deepest recession since the Great Depression. When such a crisis happens, take years of economics, “to dig up,” said Gates. The budget is already quite razbalansiran and even to return the economy back on the road to rise without changes in tax policy and the holder the right fiscal framework will remain on minus. At any time the financial markets will vzrat in this hole and it can not but cause problems, added technocrats. Microsoft co-founder said that “everyone is confused and difficult to slow economic recovery, but I think there is any magic wand with which the Government to expedite the process”
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The quotes of the Asian oil trade fell below $ 75 a barrel, reaching almost to the monthly minimum, and the main reason, according to Reuters agency have poor economic data in Asia and especially the increasing demand for currency to replenish the reserve of some large banks China. Additional indicator for the lowering of prices was news that the economic growth of South Korea has slowed down during the last quarter of 2009 due to three factors: reduced export demand and crouching low public spending. All this led to a decrease by 85 cents a quotation of U.S. light sweet crude for March delivery at $ 74.42 a barrel. When Brent was also reported a decline of 80 cents to $ 72.89 a barrel on supply in March. Players expect the oil market statistics for stocks in the United States to take their decision how to proceed until the end of the week. This information will be made tomorrow on two channels – from the American Petroleum Institute (API) and Energy Information Agency (EIA).
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The head of the International Monetary Fund Dominique Strauss-Kahn warned that the world economy can survive the next round of reduction and to get into the so-called dual recession, reports BBC. He advised the parties not to suspend incentive packages for the housekeeper, who last year brought to curb the decline in the national economy. He added that currently China and Asian countries contributing most to economic growth fragile. Economic recovery in developed countries has so far been weak. To see a stronger upward movement should be improved consumer demand and reduce unemployment. He however assured that this year would increase the IMF forecast growth of world economy.
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The crude oil prices run over $ 78 a barrel, which has long stopped falling over the last five working days, the agency reported Reuters. And the reason for the sharp rise indicates the suspect standing in addition – the weakening of the dollar, but concerns about increased demand for energy resources and signs of recovery in the global economy. Contracts for U.S. light crude for delivery in February, have added very quickly to the price of 64 cents to $ 78.64 a barrel after the beginning of Asian trade today was reported quarterly decline to $ 77.29 a barrel. The price of London’s variety “Brent” add less – 43 cents to $ 77.54 a barrel. Today in the U.S. markets are closed and oil traded volumes were small, pointed brokers. They even admitted to the upsurge in prices is short-lived. According to Reuters the current oil prices are 50 percent lower than the historical maximum of $ 147 a barrel reached in July 2008. International Energy Agency (IEA) announced that the termination of economic incentives may be a threat to oil demand this year, which will increase its price.
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Technological industry breakthrough expected of tablets, wrote analyst firm Deloitte in its analysis titled “Challenges and opportunities for the TMT (Technology, Media and Telecoms) industry for 2010 is expected that these portable devices to offer a balanced side form form and function in 2010 and has sales in tens of millions. In the telecommunications sector, mobile search is expected to be decisive for the strategic marketing direction for the development of smartphones is expected to end in 2010 search engines to become one of the five most wanted applications. It is expected that mobile voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) to evolve from niche into a major market segment in view the availability of new services to be combined into even greater degree with IP-based features of mobile voice telephony, as one to-many conversations (one-to-many calls), voice mail transmission (broadcast voicemail), and voice-to-text (voice-to-text). As a result, estimates are that mobile VoIP services will attract tens of millions of users by the end of 2010. As regards the media sector the highest growth of revenues will have a custom video content (video-on-demand), thanks to the humble technology of the transmitter. The volume of DVD-th distributed through these devices will double in 2010
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