Monthly Archives: December 2009

During the year 2009, the number of employees at Berkshire Hathaway shrinking. This was conveyed to the stock exchange authority, through its report on the acquisition plan railroad Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp. According to these data, the amount of investement company personel throughout the entire group of 225.000.

Companies based in Omaha, Nebraska, United States, the total employees currently 8.6% less than the end of 2008, namely 246.083. Buffet Warreb not give reasons for the reduction of the number of employees. Berkshire’s 2nd richest man in the world, deserve to be called portraits of U.S. corporations. The company is also spread investment accross all sectors ( retail, transportation, manufacturing ).

Berkshire lay off employees because these companies bear the loss. As Berkshire’s manufacturing division experienced a profit decline of more than half to finish the 3rd quarter of this year.  In the Berkshire shareholders meeting, last May, Buffett admitted, trimming the number of employees can not be avoided. ” In the bustling business, you will hire more people than at the time of sluggish business”, Buffett said in his speech in front of Burlington employees, earlier this month.

To expand the service to users, Twitter microblogging will complete his service with the features of the location marker. To develope it, Twitter bought a start-up company that has developed the first facility of Mixer Labs.

Mixer Labs, developed by two former Google employee who developed technology to track the location or the so-called GeoAPI. GeoAPI is a complementary, that Twitter users send information about the location and the events he saw.

We have more focus Twitter to share information, microbliogging As with site services. Even asserted Twitter social networking but it’s not a place to share information most up to date. To realize that Twitter has made changes to provide a serch engine, retweet, trending topics, and chage the tagline on the front page to “share and discover what’s happening right now, anywhere in the world”.

At the end of 2009 we saw the phenomenon of the strengthening U.S dollar against other major currencies. Is the strengthening U.s. dollar will become a trend in 2010 or only temporary?

U.S. dollar has been depressed long enough for most of the year 2009 due to begin restoration of the economy both in the U.s> or outside the U.S.  Massive stimulus being poured in by the government of the world nations are helping the countries to which its economy slumped out of deteriotion. Investors also began to look for and invest their funds into investments that offer a yield greater than the U.S. dollar.

In financial markets, the value of investment products went up. Index stocks, commodities, and currencies were yieldtinggi, all on the top level. Investor sentiment has grown to be positive for economic recovery. Fundamentals data that have been released in 2009 showed an increase although it is still not stable. Starting from the European Union area that has begun to advance out of the recession. Germany and France, two countries with the largest economy in the European Union, has come out of the recession at the end of the 2nd quarter, followed by Japan also came out of the recession at the end of the 2nd quarter. The entire European Union have made it out of the recession in the 3rd quarter as well as with U.S. GDP growth in the quarter 3 is remarkable.

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