Friday Market Wrap Up

Well,the global markets this week certainly seen a lot of volumes volatility with many winners and losers This morning opened with still more global uncertainty about the Fed Bank interest rate hike. The Fed announced yesterday that it's still split even over a huge rate hike amid worrying that hiking that benchmark will add a global see of investors running for the exit door crying foul. Fed chairman statement early this week seems to trying to calm the nerves of investors whose investments and retirement funds are being directly effectively slashed. Pension funds are always the first wave to feel the Fed Banks heat with pertinent insurers on scene screaming enough is enough with your rate hikes. On the broader front Friday global markets again resumes a mixed swing primary fueled by nervous investors who aren't sure if they should bailout or not. Then you add in the news that OPEC reached a tentative agreement on light sweet crude oil production. This over the beginning of the week fueled extreme pessimism about OPEC abilities to delivery on any new production agreement. Real Estate factors into early this week with a report from the Treasury Department and other agencies combined show new homes construction down but overall homes sales still relatively stagnant. Global markets reached a plateau on Thursday afternoon when big banks like Credit Suisse,Bank America,JP Morgan Chase posted financial reports showing better than expected earnings for this quarter. The S and P 500 and the Dow both reacted to the positive position with a gentle upswing average 28 points. This is very timid on the markets because the bears have been being the usual cynicism calling for investors to bailout while beating the markets by a two to one margin. Today shows some hope at 11:07 am that a market correction is coming with some international news to report. Interest rates for homes dropped about a half percent and the worlds largest retail store chain Wal Mart posted largest profit share gains since the store announced it's global expansion by building additional new stores in America. Other factors have spurred investors to check,change their portfolios into certain specific hubs of safety like transportation sector and energy. Ones like CSX Railroad and Texas Energy Limited plus others have contributed to investors playing the markets long ball hoping to stay in while not suffering a blood bath on their stock options,futures. Getting close to lunch hour time the markets still show that awful sucking sound of disaster looming ahead. You see it in the underpinnings in the global markets and the Dow,NASDAQ the big picture with the macd,russell 500,1000 show steady rollercoaster signals. Well I am a contrarian by nature which means I buy on other peoples pain,market mistakes that I guess explains why my gorgeous wife HM Queen of Scotland Pam L (Porter) Norton and I have built fortune 500 businesses while everyone else floundered and flopped like a wounded duck. Seriously food for thought folks when you try to gain wealth useage of the global markets and real estate etc these are wealth vehicles. Oh, one final note today we beat the markets both of us contrarians buying up companies and playing our hand in the global markets advance our cause determined to beat Warren Buffett at his own game. Watch out Berkshire Hathaway Corp. Warren Buffett or you'll make a mistake,we will walk in and own your businesses.. We are the husband and wife dynamo team of leverage buyouts,mergers and acquisitions..

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Business Solutions

Business Solutions To Community Progress

Let’s take a look at who in the business world supports community development.  Many businesses are very active in promoting housing and work-based programs that increase both the awareness and financial support of social community programs. These programs such as Habitat For Humanity, which builds homes for the under privileged, and the United Way Homes for Life Program are all good examples of business and community members working together.

By bringing together these needed resources and the financial backing of the more wealthy companies we build a partnership to solve community problems in both urban areas and the rural population too. Businesses have more freedom to be create change and innovation than what our government is able to do.

The innovators combined with the ceo s of all size companies contribute a combined total of 83 percent of all donations to community sponsored reinvestment programs such as the ones previously listed and many more. Forbes Magazine ranks Fortune 500 list companies that share and contribute the most to community reinvestment and new development by a ladder profile. Companies like McDonalds, Starbucks, Panera Bread, Exxon Mobil, CVS Pharmacy, Shaw’s Supermarkets and many others contribute more per capital in donations and sponsorships than all the others out there.

Most Chambers of Commerce and local and national business groups are heavy involved in civic development and support of charity and community reinvestment. When business and civic organizations join together they are better able to address and manage problems both at the local and national level when there is a need to be filled.

The engine of business is the leaders and problem solvers who can put forward both financial and intellectual resources to get the job done and solve community problems from a more efficient and stable platform than can most any other vehicle that is available.

Looking at cooperative ventures with people of all types shows how businesses can be the catalyst for great changes in a community. They can offer a fresh opportunity for outreach to community leaders and provide more suggestions and solve problems that otherwise would be left to the back burner or never tackled at all. Partnership in a world of everyday change means that you can have both businesses and civic organizations working together to achieve common goals to solve issues that benefit both sides.

Doing this helps us achieve a better community through private business outsourcing, in partnership with civic groups. You are then able to grow a very nice urban or rural landscape that is both aesthetic and functional while also creating new jobs and homes where more people will want to stay and raise their families for all future generation to come. Business is always the solution and will continue to be that functional piece that drives innovative ideas in a inter connected world that we currently live in this millennium.. Businesses are the ones who reach out to better persons lives in concert with government and civic organizations, so that we can grow a better future for everyone.