The VISA Black Card: A Smart Strategy in Trying Times
First it was American Express’ Centurion, a rare and mysterious card that the super-wealthy considered to be the ultimate status symbol ... more lowbrow aspects of the 1% of the US population that is its market. According to AdSavvy, the card ... Joe strategy. Good move, Barclays. More banks should [more...]
Date: 2008-12-08 21:31:20
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Cutting Financials on Hope Rally
We have very excellent technical set ups in 2 of our 3 banking stocks - Regions Financial (RF) and BB&T (BBT) ... going to employ a strategy I use in a normal market even though we live in abnormal times ... , but with more confidence the market believes in these names. For RF, that is a close above $10.50 and BBT a close [more...]
Date: 2008-12-09 02:17:06
Natixis Global Associates Appoints Tracey Flaherty
Natixis Global Associates announced that it has hired a seasoned veteran to spearhead retirement efforts aimed at the financial advisor marketplace ... , Flaherty was a marketing executive for Bank of America’s premier and small business division and served ... . Tracey Flaherty has been appointed senior vice president of retirement strategy and will [more...]
Date: 2008-07-30 18:28:17
CBA CIO: IT skills still a challenge
CommBank chief information officer Michael Harte claims that finding skilled staff for the bank's core banking system upgrade is a difficult task ... hiring strategy that sees hundreds coming and going each year, according to Harte. "There are many ... of the IT labour market, the impact of those redundancies so far had not had a noticeable effect [more...]
Date: 2008-12-08 22:16:02
Searching for real estate gets a facelift
2008 has obviously been a tough year for the real estate market –- we have surging inventories, record foreclosures, and banks with tight lending policies. But if you’re thinking about jumping into the market, 2009 ... , with more major cities to come. This launch is the result of our new open real estate strategy [more...]
Date: 2008-12-08 16:00:09
Bullish Looking Charts: S&P 500, Nasdaq, BKX, Gold
Here are some bullish looking charts we are looking at. The first two show Ellliot Wave counts that we have been tracking for some time ... closely last Friday. One clue the market was looking to rally was strength in banks. It seems unlikely ... that we reduced long exposure to treasuries."Our Absolute Return strategy had an allocation of treasuries [more...]
Date: 2008-12-08 15:55:00
Small Business Marketing Case Study: How We Built Our Business On $200
We started our business with $200. When we opened our bank account, we each deposited a whopping $100 ... also note - I am not recommending this as a viable strategy. I’m just reporting on what we did ... the first edition of “The 10 Tall Tales of Traditional Marketing” and we prepared a presentation called [more...]
Date: 2008-07-31 14:58:53
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