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Gold prices set records again in India. This one commodity prices continued to strengthen and seemed more firmly established in the above USD 1.300 per ounce.

Based on the data of the yahoo finance on Tuesday (09/28/2010), the price of gold back hit the high record. This time the price of gold rose up to USD 1.306, 6 per ounce, where the daily trading range is at 0.6 to 3 .401, 5 USD1.235 per ounce.

Meanwhile, quoted by Reuters on Wednesday (29/09/2010), gold in the spot market price immediately jumped to a new record at USD1.310, 10 per ounce. The price increase is also directly boosting the performance of energy sector stocks and commodities.

According Valbury securities, on the previous trading day, Monday, gold was also recorded to record high level of USD 1.300 per ounce. Gold was also always recorded a rise for two consecutive weeks, although was hampered by the strengthening U.S. dollar.

Where’s Spot gold was at the level of USD 1.297, 30 per ounce at 1:19 pm, after reaching a peak level of USD1.300 per ounce, up from levels at the close of the New York USD1.295.60 last Friday.

In a journal entitled Woman in Business, Deborah Shane, a motivator and career experts from the U.S., giving tips for business success. Here are five among ten the useful tips she gave:

1. Determine Interest
If you are ready to enter the world of business, choose a business that most interest you. Whether in the field of culinary, fashion, or services. Measure the ability and knowledge to manage them. You must understand the business to be run.

2. Start Moving
If you already have a choice, be prepared to walk. You could ask a trusted colleague to join. Deborah stresses, instead of capital constraints. Business continues to provide opportunities and solutions.

3. Passionate
Passion for doing business is important and should always be maintained. Successful businesses do not know the mood.

4. Learn Market
Do research on your business competitors, both in terms of promotion or price. If you play in the culinary business, try to compare the taste and price. Then ask the opinion of consumers about the product you sell, whether they are satisfied or not.

5. Customer Nets
Study of consumer behavior and do marketing. Do not hesitate to give a promotion as a recognition step, such as half-price discount. Customers are a vital ingredient in business, good relationships and do not satisfy them.

The impact of the recession is still felt by many people these days. It is difficult to say that we have fully recovered from the devastating recession because there are still so many things that have not been restored. The fact that there are still millions of people out there who are unemployed is just one among many problems that the recession had left behind. The government tried some stimulus programs to recover the economy situation. The result is quite good, but still the workers are still suffering. After the recession hit this country so hard, businesses are forced to cut off their thousands of workers. As the result, millions of people are jobless and losing their jobs means losing many things like their house. They no longer have the ability to pay the mortgage.

Until today, most of those people are still unemployed and that is because despite the fact that businesses have continuously recovered, they are still not hiring. It is true that they have made great profits these days, but the profits are not from sales. The profits come from the efficiency in production and operational. With weak sales, they will not make any hiring and those people would still be unemployed. Businesses should be encouraged to hire and that means increasing their sales. The solution is the investment in new Avaya and technology. With more investment in those two subjects, sales can be boosted as the market is encouraged to make purchases. As the result, companies would get profits from sales, start hiring and the unemployment rate would be decreased.

The future is only few journeys ahead you and to be able to make it there safe and soundly, you need to equip yourself with all the knowledge and skills. College is the place where you can find them. The problem is in this difficult economy situation, college seems to be the luxury that only the rich can have. This is so untrue because as a matter of facts, things like school grants are there to help. School grants are the loans intended for educational purposes like going to college. School grants are basically a sum of money that is given to students who demonstrate financial needs. The money is to be used for paying tuitions, books and even living cost.

The amount of money that a student receives as a school grant depends highly on the type of school grant that he or she receives. School grants can come from the government, organizations, community groups, or even the schools from which the students come. To apply for school grants is easy. People can even find the application forms online. School grants help students to make it to their future. The recession has made it difficult for students to go to college these days and school grants help them.

In your self of course there are strong point and limitations. Hopefully, both of them can go hand in hand in achieving a point of hope. Talk surplus, everyone would be proud of the privileges attached to a person. Someone should be grateful for his accomplishments that have been reached.

But how to address deficiencies in a person? Do not let the limited ability causes the decreased performance in your activities; indirectly it can make you get stuck in the wrong thinking.

If you are not able to handle a problem that often whack your life, you should have to be patient for your sake by viewing the issue as a test to motivate you to be able to resolve obstacles which are faced.

Thank for deficiencies that exist in yourself, then repair them slowly by asking for help or advice to the people which are closest to you. Find the best solution how to handle these weaknesses. Read the rest of this entry »

One of the interesting stories that lift the name of Michael Marcus, a legendary commodities trader graduate of psychology, University Clark’69, USA. Start a trading career in 1972, he was sacrificing savings which is amounted to 700 U.S. dollars for a futures contract and expand to 64 thousand U.S. dollars in one year.

Marcus has best known reputation for having successfully doubled the 30 thousand U.S. dollars to 80 million U.S. dollars in less than 20 years. He also has 10 luxury homes and mansions in various parts of the world, which might never sleeps.

It’s really wonderful to see the fields that have been tilled Marcus. However, in reality he had to alert every 2 hours to watch an ever-changing market conditions. Busyness is extraordinary, resulting in a tragic tale of the household. Read the rest of this entry »