Welcome! Welcome to our guest blogging page! Please read our blogging guidelines before getting started. If you have any questions, shoot us an email and we will get back to you with an answer. We are excited to have you post on our site. Guest blogging is a great way to share valuable information and generate some traffic to your business or personal website. What can I put in my blog post? Your post must consist of original work and may not be taken from any other sources. If you decide to use quotations for other peoples work, please cite your source. Please only write about information relevant to the topic, whether it is entertainment, finance, marketing, ect. Think from a reader’s perspective. What would he or she be interested in? Could they benefit from any of my personal experiences? Could I give them any advice? Images We encourage images to make your post more appealing There is a limit of one image per post Images size must not exceed 8MB Please make sure you have permission to use an image Please cite the image if it is from another source Links We allow two links One link may be in the content of your post if it relates to the topic The other link may be linked to your personal site or blog, but must be added to the byline of your post Keep in mind; we will check these links to see they are not leading to any […]

The future of driverless automobile production may not be as far around the corner as many anticipated. In Jeruselum, Mobileye Vision Technologies has been test driving a driverless vehicle with the help of their camera-only autonomous driving technology. An Audi A7 equipped with their technology took a cruise to the Dead Sea while a video camera on the windshield drove the car at speeds up to 65 miles an hour.  The technology that Mobileye Vision Technologies is harnessing is much less expensive than that of the widely publicized Google autonomously driving vehicle. However the Mobileye car does not offer the exact same autonomy achieved by Google’s engineers. The Google car has been tested to merge onto freeways, drive safely through intersections and even pass slower vehicles. Compared to the Mobileye vehicle, which is only capable of driving in a single lane at freeway speeds as well as identifying traffic light and automatically slowing down. But by blending advanced computer vision techniques with the low-cost video cameras, Mobileye is demonstrating how quickly autonomous driving can be commercialized.

At the recent IMF Spring Meetings, experts highlighted the discrepancies in the growth rates of countries around the world. PwC, who six months ago coined the term “two-speed economy”, has revised its analysis to include a third speed lane. “Whilst the eurozone continues to focus on crisis management and Japan puts the finishing touches to its reforms, the US appears to be breaking away from the pack and gradually returning to trend growth,” PwC says in its monthly Global Economy Watch. According to PwC “emerging and developing economies continue to be in the ‘fast lane’”. According to their internal analysis BRIC countries will continue to grow at least three times as fast as the G7, “the release of the first quarter GDP data for China confirmed our view that it will continue to grow slightly faster than the 7.5 percent government target rate (actual growth was 7.7 percent year on year), whilst gradually rebalancing from investment to consumption-led growth.” Christine Lagarde suggested in a speech at the Economic Club of New York that the US and Switzerland were ‘on the mend’, creating the medium growth rate bracket. PwC estimates that the US will grow around two percent in 2013, buoyed by sustained job creation. Lagarde has warned that this level of imbalance is “starker than ever.” “In far too many countries, improvements in financial markets have not translated into improvements in the real economy – and in the lives of people,” she said. “We are now seeing the emergence of […]

Emerging market currency exposure is becoming more important to investors and corporations alike. In the post-crisis world, emerging market regions have been seen as an investment alternative to the troubled G10. An environment of extremely low yields in developed markets has made the higher yields available in emerging markets more attractive – particularly as the fiscal and national debt positions of many emerging sovereigns now compare favourably to those of developed economies. With a large proportion of global economic growth contributed by emerging nations, the case for investment in emerging markets appears even more convincing. Corporations, meanwhile, can also benefit from strong growth in emerging economies. As the developed world continues to de-lever, consumers in emerging markets are typically benefiting from rising wages at the same time that consumer credit growth accelerates. The connectivity and size of the emerging markets (EM) sector is greater than it has ever been. Devaluations of EM currencies used to have confined, local impact; now they affect investors and corporations all over the world. But how to protect against the risk of these devaluations? They are still prone to occur, despite the increasing levels of development in the various regions. Local issues, both economic and political, still take people by surprise and damage investment in the country. Many investors and corporates maintain a mandatory policy of hedging their forex risk, no matter how expensive it may be in the long run. And make no mistake, hedging EM currency exposures can be very expensive. A USD-based […]

The country is grappling with a credible strategy to enable it to raise funds to remain solvent. Slovenia needs to present a suitable economic reform programme to the European Commission later this week. By selling state-owned bank Nova KBM and telecoms firm Telekom the government hopes it will be able to avoid an international bailout. The Bank of Slovenia has urged the government to speed up privatisations in sectors where “the market is more effective than state ownership,” but gave no further details. Due to the €7bn total of bad loans amalgamated by the mostly state-owned Slovenian banks, it is likely they will have to be separated into a standalone entity before the sector can be privatised. It also stressed the importance of the government helping financially troubled companies with good prospects, as the future ventures could result in a healthy pay-back to the banks. The financially troubled NKBM, which is 80 percent owned by the state, has a market capitalisation of €90m if the government follows through on plans to move bad loans to another bank in order to ease a credit crunch. In selling the 74 percent state-owned Telekom, the government hopes to raise hundreds of millions thanks to its market capitalisation of €624m. EU Economic and Monetary Affairs Commissioner Olli Rehn said Slovenia would not need a bailout if it reacted quickly to bring down its budget deficit. The country successfully raised $3.5bn via a bond sale which should stave off the need for a bailout until […]