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    analysts were expecting. Citigroup was up two percent while Key-Corp went up by four percent. The shares in technology also rose in the beginning of trading. The Standard and Poor’s 500 indexes rose seven points, or 0.4 percent, to 2,001.While Dow Jones average went up by thirty points. The NASDAQ average rose by twenty nine points. The prices of bonds fell. Also the ten year Treasury note rose to around two percent. The price of oil fell by one percent to around forty six dollars per barrel in…

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    General Electric Company is the world’s global digital industrial company that introduces software-defined machines to create solutions in the industry1. They have been a Fortune 500 company for 21 years2. GE is listed on the NYSE (New York Stock Exchange) in the United States, and many others for non-U.S. exchanges3. Over the years they have broadened their technologies and services into eight different industrial operating segments and one financial services operating segment4. Industrial…

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    Roaring Twenties Dbq

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    in the stock market were the perfect ingredients to create a deadly cocktail for the market. The markets rose faster than anyone could have imagined, “it had taken more than twenty years, from 1906 to 1927, for this key stock-market indicator [Dow Jones Industrial Average] to climb to 200 from 100. But in just over a year, the average jumped from 200 to 300.” (Blumenthal). The market continued to grow which led rich and poor investors alike to continue to pump massive sums of money into it,…

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    Case Study: The Impact of Information Technology (IT) on Market Efficiency in the North American Security Markets As discussed in the previous sections, security markets around the world are using information technology in a verity of applications, and they are computerized to different degrees. Prior to Freund and Pagano (2000), there has been little done in terms of studying the impact of using information technology on the efficiency of exchange markets. Also, there were not enough empirical…

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    3M Corporation

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    Introduction to 3M Corporation 3M Corporation is an industrial conglomerate that develops products which serve propose in a variety of industries. The original function of 3m was mining. Founded in 1902, 3M was originally known as the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Co. This firm’s main function was to harvest the mineral corundum, extremely hard aluminum oxide. This mineral is found in a crystalline form. Some precious stones such as rubies and sapphires are some types of corundum. 3M mined…

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    billion merger “General Electric 2000 Merger Sub, Inc.” with Honeywell (HON), a rival industrial conglomerate. GE is an American multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Fairfield, Connecticut. It is the only company listed in the Dow Jones Industrial Index today that was also included in the original index in 1896. In 2000, General Electric employed 223,000 people in over one hundred countries, counting 85,000 in Europe only , and reported net earnings of $13billion on revenue…

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    Super Bowl Predicter

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    “Super Bowl predictor”—a theory popularized by the stock analyst Robert H. Stovall, after sportswriter Leonard Koppett first discovered that the subdivisions in which the Super Bowl winners belonged to, correlated with the rise or fall of the “Dow Jones Industrial Average” the concurrent year (Fortune). Similarly, the article by The Telegraph assesses the phenomenon…

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    Information Technology has evolved to be a driving force for any organisation. I wish to combine technical and business knowledge immaculately in order to provide the technological edge to the organisation. Hence, emerge as a pioneer in IT Management. Furthermore, I covet to mentor, assist and empower more women in IT industry Having spent 3 years, thriving in a competitive, customer focused Airline domain, I have developed strong technical skills and learnt some Management methodologies.…

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    Long-term objectives Professional Objective My professional or career objectives include attaining the level of IT Vice President in a Fortune 50 company within five years. In particular, I want to lead international IT operations for a transnational company. To achieve this, I need to maintain an ‘exceeding’ rating on my annual performance reviews. Financial objective As an IT Vice President, I want to earn $250,000 per year, with a 40% annual bonus, and a 40% stock options grant.…

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    About one hundred and fifty-five years ago, Abraham Lincoln gave “The Gettysburg Address” on a blood soaked battlefield in Pennsylvania (Brown). “The Gettysburg Address” was first verbalized months after the battle of Gettysburg at a service to dedicate the opening of the national cemetery (The Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica). Lincoln’s Address was spoken to the citizens and soldiers of the union in the wake of the second invasion of the North by Robert E. Lee (The Battle of Gettysburg Facts…

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