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Investments eyed as India opens markets - Nov. 19, 2012 - 0 views

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    India reforms
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8 Truths About Retirement - Business Insider - 0 views

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  • irement planning.
  • Retirement Week,” an educational campaign to raise public awareness about the importance of long-term re
  • National Save fo
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  • encourages Americans to utilize retirement savings and investment plan strategie
  • The week also encourages individuals to reflect on their current financial situations and their potential for a secure retirement in the future.
  • 2. Half of Americans aren’t saving for retirement
  • 49 percent of Americans say they aren’t contributing to any retirement plan. Those least likely to save for retirement: individuals between ages 18 and 34.
  • planning a home remodel and planning a vacation ranked higher on the list of priorities within the past year than planning for retirement (which ranked third).
  • respondents
  • Apparently 80 is the new 65 for many middle-class Americans when it comes to retirement. One-third of survey
  • The majority of middle-class Americans aren’t confident in the stock marke
  • When survey respondents were asked what they’d do if given $5,000 to invest for retirement, only 24 percent said they’d invest in stocks – compared to 40 percent who would choose a CD or savings account and another 22 percent who would invest in gold or precious metals.
  • Women are less engaged in retirement planni
  • More than 20 percent of Americans have borrowed against their 401(k), the highest percentage since 1996, according to the Employee Benefit Research Institute. The average loan size is 14 percent of the remaining account balance.
  • About 95 percent of companies are back to matching 401(k) contributions, but only 30 percent of employees are taking advantage of this, according to a survey by the nonprofit Plan Sponsor Council of America.
  • Forty percent of Americans fear lack of retirement funds
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India hit by national strike over economic reforms - Yahoo! News - 0 views

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  • called the strike to protest against a 14 percent increase in heavily subsidized diesel prices, and a government decision that opens the door to foreign supermarket chains investing in India.
  • economic reforms aimed at boosting a sharply slowing economy
  • long demanded by Indian business leaders, were crucial for economic growth.
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  • "Good economics seldom makes for good politics,"
  • mom-and-pop "kirana" stores, who fear the retail reform will drive them out of business
  • "If we don't protest now, the central government will eliminate the poor and middle-class families,"
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    India strike over market-oriented new policies
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Arctic ice: Now you don't | The Economist - 0 views

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  • The summer sea ice is shrinking so much mostly because greenhouse warming is raising Arctic temperatures. This has direct effects: when the air is warmer, more ice melts. It also has indirect effects. Warm, salty water from the North Atlantic sliding below the cold, fresh upper layers of the Barents Sea may be one of them. Another could be that warmer air is often moister. Moist air traps more heat in summer. In winter it tends to create more clouds, which keeps the surface below warm.
  • ice-albedo effect:
  • The melt is happening much faster in reality than it does in computer programs.
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  • The effects in the Arctic, on fisheries and trade, may be easier to measure.
  • On the other side of the ocean the Parry Channel, a part of the Northwest Passage which has been ice-free in previous years, this year stayed resolutely impassable.
  • Such quirks will make the Arctic an unpredictable place to work. But if the details are tricky, the big picture is clear. Clear as an open ocean.
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