by Step-Up Finance (Business) | Feb 1, 2011 | Blog, Business, Economy, Finance, Financial Markets, Market Update, Miscellaneous, News, Newsletter, Noteworthy News, Uncategorized
Weathering the Economy Contraction of the economy was, according to The Chancellor, `due to it’. Supermarkets have blamed their flat sales on it , Ryanair claims some of its losses are due to it and Greene King Sales were down because of it. The bad weather...
by Step-Up Finance (Business) | Jan 26, 2010 | Blog, Business, Economy, Finance, Financial Markets, Miscellaneous, Uncategorized
Lots of choice would seem to be a good thing but if, according to Sheena Iyengar and Mark Lepper’s experiment, involving jam tasting in California, it would seem that it makes people less happy and showed that lots of choice makes people less likely to choose...
by Step-Up Finance (Business) | Jan 13, 2010 | Blog, Business, Economy, Finance, Miscellaneous, Uncategorized
Credit, as distinct from money, is generally perceived as being the function of Banks and according to consumer campaigners Which? in their focused campaign `Britain Needs Better Banks’ almost two thirds of those questioned would be on the `hate it’...
by Step-Up Finance (Business) | Jan 4, 2010 | Blog, Business, Economy, Finance, Financial Markets, Market Update, Miscellaneous, News, Newsletter, Uncategorized
And so another year and another decade starts in which all good intentions are there, in the beginning, but what risks lie ahead and what gambles will be taken? How achievable are objectives? We have a distraction at SUF headquarters which we won’t be giving up as...
by Step-Up Finance (Business) | Sep 21, 2009 | Blog, Business, Economy, Finance, Financial Markets, Management, Miscellaneous, Uncategorized
We were shown an interesting article recently regarding the parking of ships in shipping lanes. As we understand it these tankers are either transferring cargo, waiting, at sea rather than paying port taxes, for work to come in or waiting for the price of their cargo...
