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Welcome to Wuacademia Economics & Finance Review |
WUACADEMIA ECONOMICS REVIEW |
WRITING CONTESTS & ART CONTESTS 2016 |
ANNUAL WRITING CONTESTS 2016 |
ANNUAL ART CONTESTS 2016 |
Architecture contest, Interior Design contest, Garden Design contest, Sculpture contest, Painting contest, Dance contest, Music contest, Singing contest, Songwriting contest, Poetry contest, Cinematography, Television, Cartoon, Martial Arts, Storytelling, Circus, Theatre, Novel & Short story contest, Photography and Photo Romance, Web Design and Graphic Design, Game Design, Fashion Design, Jewellery, Tattoo and Body Art, Cabinet Making and Woodwork, Model Building, Culinary Art, Other Arts. |
THANK YOU VERY MUCH "The most important thing is not to win, but the participation" said the baron Pierre de Coubertin (the restorer of the modern Olympic Games). We hope that our competitions will contribute to: Dr. Jean-Marcel Bikouta Nkaoulou (PhD in Philosophy, PhD in Public Health, PhD in Economy option Strategy, Entrepreneurship and Leadership, DBA in Management, DBA in Finance...); Director (CEO) of WUACADEMIA. |
| Fiscal cliff: Obama returns as pressure mounts on Republicans to act - live |
| President Obama boards Air Force One at Honolulu Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam to return to Washington. Barack Obama flies back to Washington in a final bid to restart negotiations with Republicans in Congress Read more |
| Washington incapable of reaching 'fiscal cliff' deal? - Watch the video |
| Big business makes more money but pays less tax as small firms are hit harder |
| The full extent of tax avoidance by big business was laid bare yesterday on a 'black day' for taxpayers. Despite soaring profits, corporation tax payments by the UK's largest firms have fallen by more than a fifth since 2000. Read more |
Banks 'have billions more in toxic debt' |
| According to a bleak report from accountants Ernst & Young, lenders across many developed markets are ‘unwilling, or unable’ to write down asset values. Read more |
| Five questions you need to ask your financial adviser ahead of the big RDR investment and pensions shake-up |
| A huge shake-up in the way investments and pensions are sold is just weeks away, David Scrivens, of discount broker Clubfinance, highlights five questions to ask your adviser ahead of January's Retail Distribution Review - designed to improve transparency by making fees more explicit. Read more |
| EUROPEAN COUNCIL: KEY PROPOSALS FOR THE BANKING UNION AGREED |
| President Barroso welcomed the endorsement of the agreement on the Single Supervisory Mechanism. "The next steps should be a swift conclusion on the bank capital rules and the harmonisation of bank resolution…The Commission will make a proposal for a single resolution mechanism in 2013." Read more |
| December 2012 European Council Day 1 |
| The European Council endorsed the key proposals for creating the Banking Union - agreement on the Single Supervisory Mechanism. Read more |
| Thousands of OFWs venture into business—Labor dep’t » |
| MANILA, Philippines—From overseas Filipino workers to entrepreneurs - From overseas Filipino workers to entrepreneurs. Many OFWs have started to believe there are better opportunities beyond overseas work as more than 3,700 returning OFWs, including those who were repatriated from troubled countries, have ventured into business in 2012, according to the Department of Labor and Employment. - Read more |
| Money Can Buy Everything Except Spiritual Happiness |
| Boxing Day may as well be symbolized by a ringing till and hoards of queues with the odd pitched tent if what the mainstream media has you believe. Read more |
| Net profit: Online shoppers spend £400m in record Boxing Day sales splurge |
| Armchair shoppers snapped up clothes, gadgets and toys in a record £400million online Boxing Day splurge. They made 113 million visits to retail websites - racking up a 17% rise in sales on last year. Read more |
| Cautious Britain shuns urge to borrow and spend |
| Cautious consumers are paying back "virtually as much as they borrow" and putting more into savings accounts, according to the British Bankers' Association (BBA). Read more |
| Waitrose reports record trading for Christmas period |
SUPERMARKET Waitrose has reported its most successful pre-Christmas trading on record. It said total branch sales excluding petrol were up 7.7% between November 4 and December 24 with like-for-like sales increasing 4.3%. Read more |
| Business news in the French language |
| Le businessman de la semaine: Bertin Nahum |
| Bertin Nahum est un ingénieur et chef d'entreprise français (originaire du Bénin), né en 1970. |
Bertin Nahum est ingénieur de l’Institut national des sciences appliquées de Lyon, originaire du Bénin et titulaire d’un master of Sciences en robotique de l'université de Coventry. Après ses études, il a exercé diverses fonctions de management dans différentes sociétés spécialisées en robotique chirurgicale :
Il a contribué à créer la société Medtech SAS en 2002, basée près de Montpellier. Cette société fabrique et commercialise des robots d'assistance en intervention neurochirurgicales. Ces robots, de gamme Rosa, créés en 2009, guident et aident les chirurgiens, médecins et biologistes lors de biopsies, d'implantations d'électrodes et d'interventions chirurgicales neurologiques à crâne ouvert. Il s'est vu décerner le titre honorifique de la revue canadienne Discovery Series : dans le classement des « 10 entrepreneurs high-tech les plus révolutionnaires », Bertin Nahum occupe la 4e place, derrière Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg et James Cameron. La revue félicite notamment Nahum et la société Medtech pour le robot Rosa |
Carlos Slim a perdu 2 milliards d'euros dans les télécoms en Europe |
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Mexican businessman Carlos Slim Helú (photo by José Cruz/ABr) |
L'homme le plus riche du monde affiche d'importantes moins-values latentes sur ses investissements réalisés cette année pour monter au capital des opérateurs néerlandais KPN et Telekom Austria, selon les calculs de la société de gestion d'actifs Bernstein. L’homme le plus riche du monde est-il un investisseur mal avisé? La fortune du multimilliardaire mexicain Carlos Slim, estimée à 69 milliards de dollars par Forbes, prouve le contraire… à l’exception de ses dernières prises de participations dans les télécoms en Europe. Carlos Slim est en effet monté de 4,8% à 27,7% dans le capital de l’opérateur historique néerlandais KPN pour quelque 2,6 milliards d’euros au printemps dernier, à l’issue d’une OPA partielle, et a acquis peu après 21% de Telekom Austria, pour 883 millions d’euros. Or l’action KPN a lourdement chuté depuis : elle cote 3,76 euros, alors que la société de Slim, Amercia Movil a acheté ses titres entre 7,50 et 8 euros… Le cours de l’opérateur autrichien a de son côté reculé de plus de 30%. La moins-value latente de Slim sur ses deux participations avoisine 1,8 milliard d’euros, selon les calculs de la société de gestion d’actifs Bernstein cités par le «Financial Times» ... Read more |
| Nieuws in het Nederlands |
| Topman ECB: geen zorgen over inflatie (21-12-2012) |
| Europa hoeft zich geen zorgen te maken over inflatie. Die ligt naar verwachting in 2013 onder de 2 procent, volgens een van de bestuurders van de Europese Centrale Bank, Jörg Asmussen. De 46-jarige Duitser Asmussen zei tegen de Rheinische Post dat de inflatie in de eurozone gering blijft nadat hij werd gevraagd naar angst onder landgenoten dat de redding van de Europese munteenheid gepaard zal gaan met forse geldontwaarding. Read more |
| IMF: begrotingsplan Frankrijk niet gehaald (21-12-2012) |
| WASHINGTON (AFN) - De plannen van de Franse regering om de omvang van het begrotingstekort in 2013 niet groter te laten zijn dan 3 procent van het bruto binnenlands product (bbp), worden volgens het IMF niet gehaald. Read more |
| Nederland bemachtigt snel een Europese topfunctie, zegt Barroso (21-12-2012) |
| Binnenland. Nederland bemachtigt op korte termijn een Europese topfunctie. Dat zegt voorzitter José Manuel Barroso van de Europese Commissie vandaag in een interview met de Volkskrant. “Nederland krijgt heel binnenkort een erg belangrijke Europese toppositie. Dat is mijn voorspelling. En mijn voorspellingen komen gewoonlijk uit.” Read more |
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