by synergycap1 | Jul 13, 2017 | Bad Credit Loans, Bank Lending, Business Lending, Business Loans, Capital, Economics, Finance, Non-Bank Loans, Working Capital
THIRTY-ONE years ago, The Economist created the Big Mac index as a way of gauging how different currencies stacked up against the dollar. The index is based on the theory of purchasing-power parity, the idea that in the long run, exchange rates should adjust so that...
by synergycap1 | Jul 13, 2017 | Bad Credit Loans, Bank Lending, Business Lending, Business Loans, Capital, Economics, Finance, Non-Bank Loans, Working Capital
STONECUTTERS ISLAND in Hong Kong used to be a favoured habitat for poisonous snakes and eye-catching birds such as the white-bellied sea eagle. Thanks to Hong Kong’s rapid development, it is no longer so hospitable. Its sky is full of gantry cranes, stacking...
by synergycap1 | Jul 13, 2017 | Bad Credit Loans, Bank Lending, Business Lending, Business Loans, Capital, Economics, Finance, Non-Bank Loans, Working Capital
THE factory of the future will be a building stuffed full of robots making robots. A factory in Amberg, a small town in Bavaria, is not quite that, but it gets close. The plant is run by Siemens, a German engineering giant, and it makes industrial computer-control...
by synergycap1 | Jul 13, 2017 | Bad Credit Loans, Bank Lending, Business Lending, Business Loans, Capital, Economics, Finance, Non-Bank Loans, Working Capital
Freddie Laker saw it comingA DECADES-old dream of many low-cost carriers (LCCs), to break into the market for long-haul flights, has also been a long-standing nightmare for executives at full-service airlines, who earn their corn chiefly on such routes. So a series of...
by synergycap1 | Jul 13, 2017 | Bad Credit Loans, Bank Lending, Business Lending, Business Loans, Finance
The U.S. lodging industry recovery from the depths of the great recession was characterized by strong growth in rooms revenue (RevPAR), concurrent with strict cost controls. This combination resulted in double-digit growth rates for profits from 2010 through 2014....
by synergycap1 | Jul 13, 2017 | Bad Credit Loans, Bank Lending, Business Lending, Business Loans, Finance, Wire, Working Capital
Uber is ceding control of the Russian market by agreeing to merge its ride-hailing business in the country with Yandex, the Russian search-engine leader that also runs a popular taxi-booking app. For Uber, the deal marks the exit from another big market after it sold...
