China's exports and imports slowed

China's economy has been sparked, by figures showing exports and imports fell more than expected last month. Export has dropped by 1.8% in comparison with April last year, according to official data. Economists had expected exports in April to fall by just 0.1%, after a surprise 11.5% rise in March. China's exports to the United States slid by 9.3% in April, but those to...

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5 Ways Analytic Tools Can Have a Big Effect on Small Businesses

Analytics tools is just another way of saying “useful statistics about your forms and content.” It assists you in getting a greater understanding of how many people want to fill out your form, as well as what promotion tactics are effectiv...

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5 Small Business SEO Campaign ROI Secrets

Making search engine optimization (SEO) work in acompetitive keyword space is difficult. The secret about Google is out – there’s big traffic to be found. Making things even worse, SEO campaigns die a premature death every day because the appropriate return on investment (ROI) parameters aren’t in place. With an intense focus on the mechanics of SEO, small business often...

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Preparing For Another Oil Price Crash

t was almost a year ago, when having tumbled in early 2015, oil proceeded to rebound strongly into the summer, where it traded at about $60 for three months, before U.S. production resumed resulting in the next big leg lower which culminated with this February’s drop to 13 year lows. At that point a comparable rebound to last year materialized, and just like last year, the pundits...

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Why Oil Prices Will Likely Drop Below $40 Soon

The 70 percent rise in crude oil prices from the lows of $27.1 per barrel to a high of above $46/b in a matter of three months is being driven by speculative activity—make no mistake about it. The speculators have latched on to every bit of rumour and news to bid prices higher, and this has nothing to do with the real fundamentals...

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Crude oil prices

Crude oil prices are considered one of the most important indicators in the global economy. Governments and businesses spend a lot of time and energy to figure out where oil prices are headed next, but forecasting is an inexact science. Standard techniques are based on calculus...

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20 Tools For Small Businesses

Besides the company that I founded, 1000 Angels, which is a private investor network connecting founders and high net-worth individuals, there are other great tools out there that every small business should use in order to increase the growth of their company over the course of ti...

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10 Qualities That Make A Great Leader

Having a great idea, and assembling a team to bring that concept to life is the first step in creating a successful business venture. While finding a new and unique idea is rare enough; the ability to successfully execute this idea is what separates the dreamers from the entrepreneurs. However you see yourself, whatever your age may be, as soon as you make that exciting first...

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How to Come up with Hundreds of Business Ideas

This article is part of our “Business Startup Guide” – a curated list of our articles that will get you up and running in no time! For some people, coming up with ideas is as easy as spotting chewing gum on the sidewalk. For others, it’s nearly impossible...

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4 Secrets of Successful Business Owners

Have you ever wondered how some entrepreneurs and business owners seem almost superhuman, that everything they touch and do practically turns to gold? Take Richard Branson for example. He started Virgin in 1970 and has built numerous businesses...

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How to Become a Successful Businessman

Five Parts:Gaining Appropriate ExperienceEstablishing the Best HabitsTurning Your Passion Into WorkKnowing the Right PeopleTaking Care of BusinessCommunity Q&A Anyone who conducts business—whether that business is on behalf of a small company, a globe-spanning corporation, or your own entrepreneurial venture—can be considered a businessman (or businesswoman). Success...

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Top Five Apps for Futures Traders

Here is a list of various futures traders apps for iPhone, android, windows, blackberry and iPad. Futures traders are very busy people- enter the apps to make their lives easier...

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HOW TO DAY TRADE: 10 TRADING SECRETS

Day Trading refers to market positions which are held only a short time; typically the trader opens and closes a position the same day. The concept got a bad reputation in the 1990’s when many beginners began to day trade, jumping onto the new online trading platforms without applying...

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Secret of Big Trader's for Small Traders

et's be honest, everyone begins trading with the hopes of making a lot of money through their trades, maybe even enough money that they can quit their jobs and trade for a living. However, when asked how they are going to make "a lot of money trading" most traders would not be...

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Banks Need Strong, Standardized Anti-Money Laundering Programs To Fight Financial Crime

Financial institutions are working hard to fight financial crime and bank fraud driven by demands to protect the bank’s assets, as well as by regulatory compliance. One area of specific focus is that of Anti-Money Laundering (AML).  For many institutions, there are several challenges to creating a sustainable AML organization – one that can respond to regulatory...

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Money laundering

Money laundering is the generic term used to describe the process by which criminals disguise the original ownership and control of the proceeds of criminal conduct by making such proceeds appear to have derived from a legitimate source. The processes by which criminally derived...

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20 Investments: Futures Contract

What Is It?  As the name implies, futures are contracts on commodities, currencies, and stock market indexes that attempt to predict the value of these securities at some date in the future. The popular perception of futures is that they are a form of...

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