The southern border of the United States has seen a tremendous boom in economic development activity over the last decade. Investors are discovering what is amounting to a modern day gold rush happening specifically on the Texas/Mexico border. Mission, one of the border cities in South Texas is benefiting from the current boom in investment and population, and is seeing local business flourish and new business developments open each week.
Emissary Capital, LLC noticed a fast growing Indian company into a U.S. public company with the prestige and capability to raise money from U.S. and European institutional investors.
Getting objective opinions has never been easier for consumers. If they don't personally know someone who has used a product or service, they can go online for the thoughts and experiences of millions.
Increasingly more small business owners are uncertain about whether or when they will retire as they fail to apply their business and financial skills to their own finances.
Senior executives, along with the rank and file, are sharing the pain with stockholders as market prices decline and accumulated values evaporate. A survey conducted by executive compensation consultants Steven Hall & Partners reveals stock options are underwater at more than one third of the largest 500 U.S. corporations.
Roughly half of metropolitan areas continued to show rising home prices in the fourth quarter of 2007, according to the latest quarterly survey by the National Association of Realtors(R).
Spending on branded entertainment marketing has doubled in the past five years, reaching an all-time high of $22.3 billion in 2007, according to the PQ Media report, "Branded Entertainment Marketing Forecast: 2008-2012."
Total funding for research and development (R&D) is expected to increase just 3.3 percent in 2008 from the $355 billion funded in 2007 to the $367 billion expected to be funded in 2008, according to the annual Battelle R&D Magazine forecast.
