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Nyse-euronext will now be trading in environment related spot and future markets under the name of bluenext. The international exchange for the trading of environment  instruments was launched recently  by nyse-euronext.

source : www.euronext.com

When I read anynewspaper I check the financial section and I loved this page:



http://www.ft.com/marketsdata

To non specialists the basic function of the world bank is simply the provision of project finance services all over the world. However, people with such views are advised to change their minds because the world bank is also a top flight asset management agency, an orgnaisation that that undertakes financial and risk management advisory services. With traders that undertake currency, interest rates, stocks and commondities transactions.

The current issue of the French financial marketsweekly contains a feature on investment clubs. The major article covers the geographical distribution of investment clubs, an overview of popular clubs, the contents of their portfolio, monthly contributions as well as registration and set up fees. In this year of credit crunch, only one club, earned a 30% increase in terms of return on investment and the shares of one club diminished by 11% in the course of this year.

www.laviefinanciere.com

Business researchers will be very happy to add the address of this agency www.tracfin.minefi.gouv.fr  to their directory.

As tracfin is the government organ that monitors and recommends prosecution relevant to illegal transfer of funds, money laundering and embezzlements to the director of public prosecutions. Tracfin was created in 1990 and it has not been able to acquire the status of the stock market regulator and came to serious public attention in the form of an editorial that appeared in the La Vie Financière last month. 

Business researchers will relish at the amount of information online. Most of these information will be expensive from any of the database providers and www.francereginfo.com is another example of quality data available on the web.

These days, it is not possible to have an understanding of the social, economic and political developments in a country without  consulting newspaper supplements. For many years now, the synopsis of the UK-based Economist is one of these essential tools and now the series of the Economist Intelligence Unit now include countries like Libya, Turkey and Lithuania, giving it a coverage of 99% of the economic resources of the world or 82 countries.

These two links are very useful for research and writing purposes:

www.nationalarchives.co.uk

www.nsarchive.org

I said at the beginning of this year that I expected the stock market index to reach the threshold of 6 000 points before the end of the year 2007 and to my surprise the index is currently at 5 989 points today.

I said at the beginning of this year that I expected the stock market index to reach the threshold of 6 000 points before the end of the year 2007 and to my surprise the index is currently at 5 989 points today.