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Echoes of the dotcom bubble - same underwriting banks, business models and promises might lead to same, disastrous results

This report bundle represents the most informative research on the market for Service Delivery Platforms (SDP) solutions and market opportunities. It evaluates the potential for SDP as a dependable, scalable and flexible platform for core business functions, next generation applications, and independent services. SDP is examined within the context of its relationship to the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and the objectives to respond more rapidly to shifts in market conditions, customer demands, new revenue opportunities, and competitive threats.

According to our research report “Middle East Retail Sector Forecast to 2013” ,the Middle East retail sector has been recording unprecedented growth for the past few years that makes the region one of the fastest growing retail environments in the world. The Middle East retail market is benefited by the high oil prices and increasing retail space in the region, thus it is expected that, the retail sales will also flourish in coming years. More retail space will contribute to more supply of products; thereby affecting the demand of consumers.

Motilal Oswal hosted the first of its series of seminars under its investors education initiative called Investor Ki Kahani Usi Ki Zubani.

Investment products described as “guaranteed”, “protected” or “secure” may have to carry an explanation stating exactly what these terms mean, in the latest warning from the Financial Services Authority that financial companies are not properly advertising risk to consumers.

Africa LNG Market Outlook- New Opportunities, Trends and Drivers to 2020” from LNGReports is a comprehensive report on current and future Africa LNG business environment. It identifies all possible opportunities of contracting and investing in African markets. The report provides all major trends and drivers driving the industry growth to 2020. It forecasts country wise LNG capacity, LNG exports and natural gas production to 2020. In addition to monthly trade volumes from January to December 2010, it also provides annual LNG trade data from 2000 to 2020 by country.

Alternative investment advocacy group, AAA (Alternative Asset Analysis) claims that Russia is an important market for anyone considering opting for investments in art and antiques to diversify their portfolios.

Alternative Asset Analysis (AAA), the Boston-based organization that analyzes and promotes alternative investment options, has revealed that several reports, including one from Ernst & Young, are showing a rise in private equity investment in India.

Alternative Asset Analysis (AAA) have announced that forestry investment returns in the UK have exceeded other major markets, such as commercial property, over the past year.

Edgar Perez, Author of The Speed Traders: An Insider's Look at the New High-Frequency Trading Phenomenon That is Transforming the Investing World, Published by McGraw-Hill Inc, Interviewed Today by CNBC Cash Flow’s Oriel Morrison.

For the first time since 1971, gold and silver will be considered legal tender in at least one part of the United States.

Generally there can be a number of considerations being set into print, in to blogs as well as in to television programs concerning how to invest currently. Comparable to our politics, it appears as if we’re as divisive as always about the economic climate, and what exactly that suggests for your cash.

Trading Advantage is offering a free webinar to the public on May 19th with S&P professional floor trader Larry Levin illustrating 11 things every trader should know.

SpeedTrader announces the launch of SpeedTrader 2.0, an advanced web-based trading platform, which caters to traders’ varied trading needs. A flexible platform, SpeedTrader 2 allows trading of equities, futures and options from any computer using a web browser.

Experts think that the number of repossessions in the UK in 2011 will be 40,000, but charities predict that numbers will reach more than double that amount once higher interest rates take effect.

Spread betting provider City Index takes a look at some common spread betting errors, how to avoid them and most importantly, how to learn from them.

Spread betting provider City Index takes a look at four advantages of spread betting over standard trading.

Global Partnerships (GP), a Seattle-based nonprofit that invests in microfinance and other sustainable poverty solutions, and the Netherlands Development Finance Company (FMO), a leading European development bank, announced today that FMO has invested $4.4 million in GP’s Social Investment Fund (SIF 2010). SIF 2010 is a $25 million fund (including FMO’s investment) that makes loans to exceptional microfinance institutions in Latin America.

Sandy Jadeja, Chief Technical Analyst for spread betting provider City Index (http://www.cityindex.co.uk/), looks at the latest movements in the markets.

Spread betting provider City Index take a look at the five biggest spread betting myths.

The idea of a spread betting strategy is straightforward. By using one, you should know even before you place your spread bet why you are entering the trade, where you want to take profits and more importantly where you are willing to take a loss. Logic and consistency should underpin every spread bet that you make. Not only does this help to filter out any impulse spread bets that may backfire, but it also means that emotion is removed from your spread betting decisions altogether.

Financial spread betting and CFD trading market update for 5th April 2011 from City Index.

Sandy Jadeja, Chief Technical Analyst at City Index, provides insight into the market activity that shaped spread betting and CFD trading on April 1st.

Instead of being an inoculation against measles mumps and rubella, the MMR this year stands for Mortgage Market Review, where the government (in the form of the Financial Services Authority) is taking a long, hard look at the mortgage system in the UK and deciding how it could be changed to prevent any future crises like the one we suffered in 2008, when the tax payer had to bail out Northern Rock and the Royal Bank of Scotland, among others.

A shared equity scheme worth £250 million was unveiled by Chancellor George Osborne in his 2011 Budget speech, restricted to first time buyers and newly built properties.