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Why bother to prepare the Business Disaster Recovery? Facing an emergency situation (emergency response), recovery from disaster (disaster recovery), recovery of business (business recovery), started the business back (business resumption), and an alternative plan (contingency plan), and crisis management (crisis management) is the essence of Business Disaster Recovery.

In practice, Business Disaster Recovery should include how the employees communicate, where they should go, and how they can still work.

The details may vary depending on the size and scale of the enterprise and how business is run. For some sectors, supply chain logistics perhaps the most crucial issue and the focus of the plan.

Other business sectors that rely on information technology is probably to be focused on system recovery. Priorities in this focus does not mean to ignore other fields, let alone among the field is always something to do, so the field is focused not function without support from other fields. Read the rest of this entry »

Rating agency Standard and Poor put the government of Cyprus on a credit of watch list with negative implications last Wednesday. It was done as a reaction to the parliamentary rejection of two proposals to reduce public debt.

“Rating Standard and Poor` s putting the long-term credit ratings of the Republic of Cyprus at `A +` on credit watch list with negative implications, “said international rating agencies. “Short-term credit monitoring following the rejection of the legislative branch on July 9, 2010 from two government proposals to raise revenue,” S & P credit analyst Trevor Cullinan said. The majority of members of parliament rejected government proposals to increase corporate taxes by one percent to 11 percent and increase the levy on the ownership of large properties that will generate annual revenues of 90 million Euros. Parliament said the government must cut bloated salaries alone before trying to raise taxes.
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U.S. insurance giant, AIG, has agreed to pay 725 million dollars to settle fraud charges brought by the three markets pension fund Ohio, the state attorney general said Friday.

“The settlement of fraud charges AIG covers many things from October 1999 until April 2005 that involves the division of anti-market competition, violation of accounting and stock price manipulation,” attorney general Richard Cordray’s office said in a statement quoted by AFP.

Cordray declared a class action settlement a victory for “teachers, firefighters, police, and civil servants,” who “harmed” by AIG’s mistakes.

The company was accused of accounting fraud designed to boost AIG’s reserves to cover claims, the scheme of bid-rigging by insurance brokers and executives ordered traders to inflate AIG’s stock price. Cordray said that it is a class-action securities settlement 10th-largest in U.S. history. This is the latest blow to a company that requires nearly 70 billion dollar government bailout to stay afloat after the sub prime mortgage crisis. Read the rest of this entry »

It’s been four days, as world crude oil prices decline. This happens due to the level of the growing U.S. consumer confidence slumped. In addition, there is also investors’ concern on the decline of foil demand in the US.

For your information, oil prices declined after the Thomson Reuters / University of Michigan consumer confidence index released for the month of July. In the data shown, the consumer confidence index declined to a level of 66.5 from the position on June 76. This is the lowest level since August last year. It also predicted the index would drop songs to the position 74.

“Sentiment is negative macro impact. Outlook global growth outlook participate aggravate the oil market,” said Toby Hassall, analyst CWA Global Commodity Markets Pty in Sydney. Read the rest of this entry »

Today, Asian stock markets are still colored by negative sentiment seems like last week. You’ll see, almost the entire reference index in Asia is decreasing, Monday (7/19/2010) morning. The Hang Seng Index has slumped 0.93% to 20061.98 positions. Similar conditions experienced by the Shanghai Composite Index fell 0.20% to a level of 2419.75. Singapore’s benchmark index also drifted in Asia. Today, the Straits Times Index fell 0.40% to a level of 2945.99. Meanwhile, the Nikkei stock exchange did not operate on this day.

As you know, weeks ago, both regional and global exchanges fall into. Conditions that caused many financial reports of companies that do not fit the prediction. In the U.S., the Federal Reserve also lowered growth forecasts in the United States. As a result, many investors who choose to be cautious and wait until there are clarity that is more certain.