Archive for February, 2009

Business theft has been one of the causes for a business to shut down. You don’t realize that your most trusted employees for several years suddenly would back fight you and will steal from you. Some employees are too confident to commit theft as you have built your trust with them and it won’t be obvious at first as they start pocketing little amounts of money or goods from your business. It won’t be too long, usually it will take several months that you will discover the theft being

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National Book Store, the Philippine’s largest chain of bookstores is the featured success story for today as we witness the life story of the woman behind it, Socorro Ramos or more commonly know to her staffs as Nanay Coring. Her story is truly an inspiring one as she built the business National Book Store from scratch with a lot of challenges and hurdles as she and her husband Jose Ramos literally built and rebuilt the business three times from scratch. That’s the true entrepreneurial

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Today’s featured story on the spot light is the life story of the world’s greatest investor known as Warren Buffet and considered as the “Oracle of Ohama” for his investment tactics. He owns probably the most expensive stock in the world, which is his company Berkshire Hathaway, which reached its peak for a much as $147,000 per share. He is considered as the richest man on earth last year 2008 at the age of 77 with a networth of US$62 Billion overtaking his longest

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“If you have 1 Million US Dollars, how would you invest it?” This is the question that some visitors post in personal finance forums that I visited. 1 Million US Dollars is not that big nowadays but I can say that it is still an achievement to reach that amount especially if you worked very hard just to achieve that goal. If you were lucky enough, you can win in lotto and can easily get a 1 Million US Dollars to invest. Before investing that 1 Million US Dollars, you might want to

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I remembered before that I chatted with a foreign exchange (forex) trader when I was thinking to try foreign exchange trading online as one of investing. And I asked him: “What Makes Currency Rise or Fall?” In our discussion through Yahoo Messenger, he stated that currency trading is more stable than the stock market. He said that ‘currency trading is a balancing act between a particular currency against a basket of other currencies.’   If one currency fall, then

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