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IT Services Industry: CDI

CDI Corp. (CDI) may be planning to improve its business but its stock has been rising since the beginning of October. On December 8th, CDI announced a strategic plan to promote long-term company growth. This plan will improve key areas such as client relations, technical service, engineering solutions, IT solutions, staffing and other area. On… Continue Reading

IT Services Industry: Computer Task Group Inc.

Computer Task group, Inc. supplies IT solutions and staffing services mainly in Europe and North America. CTG’s services include selection and implementation of software packages. The company also makes and integrates new software systems and develops customized software solutions. The company provides solutions for health information management, medical care management, medical fraud, insurance assessments, and… Continue Reading

Information Technology Services Industry: Analysts International Corp.

Analysts International Corp. is one of many companies in the information technology services industry. Its services include internet technology staffing in the following formats: managed teams, solutions to project issues including solution implementations and system integration. The company also improves enterprise resource planning, implementation and also management services. It has 971 full-time employees. Analysts International… Continue Reading

Drugs Are Good Money!

GlaxoSmithKline PLC (GSK:LN) is a giant drug manufacturing and distribution company. It is traded in London and in America. While the American stocks are going up slowly they also pay quarterly dividends. However, the English stocks are doing very well. They have gone up from 1,096 English pounds in February to 1,373 pounds last week.… Continue Reading

Concretize Your Profits

Smith Midland Corp (SMID.OB) is a company that develops, sells, licenses and rents precast concrete products for construction, and highway and noise barriers. The business was started in 1960 by Rodney I. Smith and his father David Smith. Today, Rodney’s son, Ashley B. smith, who has a BA in Business Administration, serves as the COO.… Continue Reading

Bracing For Market Impact

As the hours tick down to Monday’s Wall Street opening, investors are left wondering where to go when the proverbial sky seems to be falling.  Since the S&P downgraded the US sovereign debt world stocks have plummeted.  Middle Eastern markets tumbled as much as 7% yesterday and Asian markets fell over 3 percent.  Both European… Continue Reading

Plummeting Euro Stocks

For a third consecutive day there was a drop in European stocks.  This might have been due to the fact that earnings missed estimates from Clariant AC (CLN)  (a Swiss chemical maker) to Merck KGA (MRK) (second largest drug manufacturer in Germany). The former plummeted 13 percent and the latter, 5.1 percent.  Other dives were… Continue Reading

New EU Economic Policy?

The European Union has been heaping the criticism on Spain vis-à-vis the way it has been dealing with savings banks and tax policy.  But Spain has not taken this lying down.   Indeed, according to a Bloomberg article it has been “persuading the EU to water down judgments issued as part of a new economic-policing system.”… Continue Reading

British Homes in Slump

Bad News for British Housing Market While Scotland may be doing well in the economic recovery sphere vis-à-vis employment, the picture doesn’t look quite as pretty when you turn to Britain’s housing market. Indeed, just since 2007, prices have dropped by £40,000 and there isn’t expected to be any improvement until around 2015. Just in… Continue Reading

Slow Growth for UK Economy

According to today’s figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), the UK economy only grew by 0.5 percent between January and March 2011. But apparently this wasn’t too much of a surprise and is pretty similar to what happened during 2010’s last quarter, which was blamed on poor weather conditions. But in terms of… Continue Reading