2016 Economic Markets Start up with High Volatility

Colombia Gets Ready for New Offshore Crude Production

Colombian Minister of Mines and Energy, Tomás González, has announced the enormous potential of Colombian Atlantic offshore oil reserves. The current logistics, operations research, and enterprise planning are being performed in conjunction in conjunction with Barranquilla Chamber of Commerce, namely, ProBarranquilla and the National Agency of Hydrocarbon, — Agencia Nacional de Hidrocarburos —,  (ANH), for its acronym in Spanish.

Apple “Understimated” in the Economic Market

After self-assessment of their stock, Apple's CFO, Luca Maestri, suggests that Apple is being undervalued in today’s economic market. The report reveals that the strong dollar has affected the company sales and overall revenue overseas, but the an iPhone was sold at an average price of $691 [USD]. The 2016 economic markets startup has been driven by high volatility, and predictive analytics are using a much narrow interval of time of about 7 years, for long-term market predictions on aggregate rather than the 15 year span used at the end of the millennium.  Thus, for the first time Apple is forecasting that sales of its iPhone could remain with a flat trend until the release of its new iPhone 7.

Google to pay £130m (GBP) to the UK in back dated taxes

Google has reached a deal with HMRC to pay £130m [GBP] in back dated taxes. According to British Prime Minister, David Camerom, having Google pay more was a fair act.

Mosquito Epidemic in Brazil threatens to become a Worldwide Pandemic

The mosquito epidemic, which started in Brazil with epicenter in Recife, has prompted the World Health Organizations and the South American countries' Health Ministries to start a preventive medicine campaign in order to neutralize and eradicate the danger posed by the virus affecting particularly new babies and pregnant women. These organizations should look at the Caribbean strategies to neutralize the mosquito bearing the dengue virus, through which countries like Jamaica and Haiti have been able to considerably reduce its dramatic impact of that sometimes fatal virus — its signs and symptoms — with the assistance of incumbent NGOs.

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Yoga modernizes to overcome the “economic” stress

Yoga is one of the most practiced health activities to overcome daily life stress in the world. While yoga is practiced mostly by women in Western nations, there is quite a balance among genders among the EMEA nations. One brilliant innovation to yoga is called “Dog Yoga”, which is exercised with your favorite pet.

The 2015 Nobel Prize in Economics

On Consumption, Poverty, and Welfare

In a year where the S&P 500 had the largest losses (in commodities since 2008), the 2015 Nobel Prize in Economics was delivered to British-American Economist and Princeton University Professor Angus Deaton , whose contributions and research work are focused not only in Consumer Behavior, in large and small scale, and the difficulty to aggregate such Consumption Behavior, but also in poverty and welfare. His work should be inspirational to Latin American countries and other developing countries, such as African countries, and other third world nations, to find ways to overcome the hardness of leading currency markets and their effect on import-export balances.

I believe that implementing Foreign Exchanges strategies, including both private and mixed investments (a hybrid strategy with some institutional partners), will allow developing nations to overcome not only the effects of inflation, especially on imported goods, but also confront – in extreme scenarios – their inability to move in a balancing direction. An agile strategy of solid banking transactions utilizing ForEx arbitrage, in particular, triangular arbitrage can lead to a consolidated cushioning game design mechanism for the long-term. This is wonderful if the larger-scale investors can look into such as investments in the US Dollar, Euro, and British Pound, as key references, among others. This may also set limits and controls on other strategies against hard currencies, such as, the local currency devaluation.

VIDEO: Prof. Deaton speaks of his Nobel Prize Award