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Technical Stock Market Outlook for 2012

As the new year approaches, City Index Chief Technical Analyst Sandy Jadeja summarises 2011, analysing the stock market from a technical perspective and gives his thoughts on the FTSE 100, Dow Jones, Gold, Crude Oil, EUR/USD exchange rate and what is likely to be in store for 2012 Sandy Jadeja, Chief Technical Analyst, City Index: [...]

Hotels to Experience Moderate Growth in 2012 Across All Travel Segments

According to TravelClick’s November 2011 North American Hospitality Review, all travel segments — business travel, leisure travel and group business — are experiencing moderate gains in demand and room rate for the next 12 months.  The North American Hospitality Review is based on actual hotel bookings from Q4 2011 through Q3 2012. For this period, [...]

2012 Investment Outlook

The wealth managers’ Christmas stocking: Russian commodities, Italian corporate bonds, Unilever, New York apartment blocks, and a gold bubble At a 2012 investment outlook event, hosted by The Broadcast PR Business, a panel of wealth managers agreed on the Euro surviving (in the medium term only). They tipped global producers able to tap emerging markets [...]

Americans Plan to Shop Til They Drop This Holiday Season

Shoppers Will Spend Four More Hours Gift-Hunting this Year; Twenty-nine Percent Plan to Shop in Stores on Black Friday Frugality must be time-consuming because although many Americans plan to cut back slightly on their holiday spending this year, they won’t be cutting back their time spent on shopping itself. On average, adults will spend, on [...]