Business and Finance

This area provides up-to-date and interesting developments from the world of business, economics and finance.

A wealth of information is available on topics ranging from stock markets, consumer climate, labor market policies, bond markets, foreign trade and interest rate trends to stock exchange news and economic forecasts.

Secure competitive advantage in China – STN now offers comprehensive Chinese patent information

With China having grown into one of the world’s major patenting countries, it becomes extremely important for all companies involved in R&D to keep an eye on…

Using Twitter to predict financial markets

A University of California, Riverside professor and several other researchers have developed a model that uses data from Twitter to help predict the traded…

Route of Corporate Shares Mapped — How Financial Market Experts Interact

The new book ’Marketing Shares, Sharing Markets’ describes how traders, analysts, brokers, and corporate bankers actively contribute in the shaping of…

Euro debt crisis 2011 leaves European micro- and nanotechnology industry unfazed

Although business has not grown as much as the companies had expected in the beginning of 2011, still more than half of them have been able to increase orders,…

African auditors advocating international auditing standards

’Researchers seem to have underestimated the power of professional norms as a tool to create change in developing countries,’ says the author of the thesis…

US income distribution winners and losers

People all over the world have spent almost six months in front of universities, public parks, banks, and even Wall Street to publicly protest their…

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