Business

Sell shares now, warns guru

Economics guru Albert Edwards, a strategist at Société Générale, is warning of a “bloodbath” in share markets in the months to come. October is a traditional month for a stock market crash and it’s beginning to look ominous for 2010 …

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Women in the workplace

In a working world where women continue to struggle to compete with men for the highest paid positions of responsibility and we still see apparent injustices of gender equality challenged from time to time …

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Economic outlook very uncertain

It’s a moot point whether the UK economy is worse than America’s. The US is heading into a second bout of the “Great Recession,” as the IMF has called it. Money supply is melting away at 10pc a year …

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Vince Cable wants to transform Devon and Cornwall

Regional economies built chiefly on large scale public sector employment are artificial economies: economies on life support. The detail suggests the last government got important things wrong; an excessive dependence on the banking sector. We now need the counterbalance of private sector jobs and enterprise.

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eurozone danger for business

Almost the minimum that can happen now is an awesome deflation across Europe and America — already the US money supply is shrinking at an alarming 10% on an annualized basis. A double-dip recession is at the benign end of the spectrum …

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Saltash software developer goes global

computech_logo150 Who says Cornwall is a quaint backwater, known only for surfing and sea views? Look behind the facade and you’ll soon spot world-class technology companies hidden away in places like Saltash …

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Training management

How does this compare to the glossy TV “training” of potential high flyers in the business world, such as those featured in popular television series, who are marketed as being the cream of the crop? One can only wonder how far these potential candidates would handle real life situations …

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What’s a green company?

Despite current economic reality in the business world, where cash is often limited and expenditure has to be kept on a close rein, there is still a pressure for companies to support sustainability and operate within a set of ethical values …

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Event management

There are a number of issues for businesses to consider when they need to hold a specific annual event, especially when they will often be expected to repeat their winning performance in the same way, or even better, during the following year.

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