Improve your financial situation is a good thing to start at any time of year.Regardless of when you begin, the basics remain the same. Here are five tips to getting ahead financially. 1. SPEND LESS THAN YOU EARN No matter how much or how little you’re paid, you’ll never get ahead if you spend more

INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT “HALLOWEEN” 1. The word Halloween is a shortening of All Hallows’ Evening also known as Hallowe’en or All Hallows’ Eve. 2. Halloween has its origins in the ancient Celtic festival known as Samhain (pronounced “sah-win”). The ancient Gaels believed that on October 31, the boundaries between the worlds of the living and the

No cobra comisiones, sin control fiscal y sin poder palparla. Sólo existe de manera virtual y no tiene Banco Central que la regule. Con esas características apareció Bitcoin, la “moneda virtual” nacida hace cinco años como alternativa al sistema monetario convencional. Apareció en 2009 con la crisis mundial, pero en los últimos días ha acaparado

Harry Reid, líder del Senado y de la mayoría demócrata, acaba de anunciar que, junto con los senadores republicanos, han llegado a un acuerdo para reabrir el gobierno y aumentar el techo de endeudamiento. La reacción en los mercados ha sido de verdadera fiesta desde que se supo que Reid haría un anuncio a las

Empresas ICA, la compañía constructora más grande de México, dijo que acordó formar una nueva compañía con CGL, una empresa dedicada al diseño, operación y mantenimiento de instalaciones de servicios públicos.      La nueva empresa tendrá a CGL, filial de la empresa desarrolladora e inversionista en bienes raíces, Hunt Companies, con sede en El Paso, Texas,

As Europe’s economy recovers from its crisis, afflicted countries such as Spain and Italy are trying to pare their debts while also becoming more internationally competitive.      The trouble is, it’s hard to do both at once. And the euro zone’s weak inflation is making it even harder.      So, even as the world’s economic elite welcomed

Turkey’s central bank Tuesday aggressively increased overnight lending rate/interest rates to shore up the lira at an extraordinary policy meeting billed as a test case for under-pressure emerging markets. The central bank raised its overnight lending rate to 12% from 7.75%, raised its one-week repo rate to 10% from 4.5% and raised its overnight borrowing

Carlos Slim, el segundo hombre de negocios más acaudalado del planeta y dueño de control de América Móvil, la mayor empresa de telecomunicaciones en América Latina, reanudará este año sus esfuerzos por controlar una empresa europea a fin de poder penetrar ese mercado, reportó la agencia de noticias Reuters, citando fuentes bancarias y de la

A potent mix of rising exports, consumer spending and business investment helped the U.S. economy end the year on solid footing. Gross domestic product, the broadest measure of goods and services churned out by the economy, grew at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 3.2% in the fourth quarter, the Commerce Department said. That was less than