Encuesta Margrave: ¿Cuánto dinero necesitas para vivir sin trabajar, y ser feliz?

Más que el aviador Dropp de mi adolescencia. Por eso NOS gustas Chess. S 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W69UxWN0XjM

¿Marcas blancas? no sabemos lo que compramos con las buenas imaginate con las blancas.
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Lo que es hacer bien las cosas.s2

Wells Fargo is still on the prowl
March 7, 2012, 12:40 PM
The bank’s chief financial officer, Tim Sloan, told investors on Wednesday that Wells Fargo is “positioned to continue to grow through selective acquisitions.” And Europe, which is reeling from the effects of its sovereign debt crisis, is particularly attractive.

“What we are seeing is a really good opportunity to be able to purchase assets from European banks that need to increase their capital levels,” Sloan said at the Citi Financial Services Conference in New York on Wednesday. “We haven’t seen any reduction in the rate at which acquisition opportunities are recurring out there.”

Only last month, Wells Fargo snapped up the Houston-based energy-lending business of French bank BNP Paribas. While terms of the all-cash deal were not disclosed, the BNP energy business consists of nearly $9.5 billion of loan commitments and around $3.9 billion in loans outstanding. In 2011, Wells Fargo bought Burdale Capital, a London asset-based lending firm, from Bank of Ireland, and it also acquired $3.3 billion in U.S. commercial real-estate loans from Irish banks.

Asked why Wells Fargo WFC 0.13% has been so successful recently at acquisitions, Sloan said that his bank is “in a different place” from many of its competitors.

“We’ve got more than adequate capital,” Sloan said. “We’ve got a tremendous amount of liquidity and we’re good at acquisitions. We’re very disciplined. We also know that this part of the cycle is where you see good opportunities. Our competitors have different challenges. From our perspective, this is a great environment for us.”

The Wells Fargo finance chief also responded to a question about the challenges posed by the current environment of low interest rates, arguing that the bank doesn’t need to do anything differently.

“There’s no question that the lower interest rates that we have right now, along with slower economic growth along with some of the regulatory changes, have affected the industry pretty significantly,” Sloan said. “We need to execute the current model…We have a very diversified model.”

Sloan also highlighted opportunities in credit cards. “We see a real good opportunity to grow our credit-card business,” he said. “We’re going to continue to focus that business on the existing customer base.”

Shares of Wells Fargo, which bought Wachovia at the height of the financial crisis in 2008, have rallied 11% this year, putting its market capitalization at more than $161 billion.

–Polya Lesova
http://blogs.marketwatch.com/thetell/2012/03/07/wells-fargo-is-still-on-the-prowl/

A ver que compran, seria una muy buena noticia que hincara el diente en algun muerto europeo.
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Por eso Warren es tan bueno, quiere gente decente en sus negocios.
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“El personal es el mayor activo de una empresa y no está en el balance.“ By Ernest Muratet (Norma Group)

Estas cosas ¿suelen salir bien?
NEW YORK -- ConocoPhillips is "right on schedule" to complete the spinoff of its downstream division -- called Phillips 66 -- on May 1, CEO James Mulva affirmed during an investor update this afternoon. Phillips 66 will be the parent to all ConocoPhillips branded convenience stores.

Mulva's statement is significant as it marks the first time ConocoPhillips has publicly reported an exact date for the spinoff to occur. The company last said on Jan. 25 that the spinoff could take place as early as May.

Today, Mulva also released several more details about the upcoming Phillips 66 spinoff. For every two shares of ConocoPhillips owned on April 16, stockholders will receive one share of Phillips 66 on May 1, Mulva revealed.

Phillips 66 will have 10,000 branded marketing outlets under its umbrella, Mulva said during his presentation. Refining and marketing will comprise 78 percent of all of Phillips 66’s revenues.

Mulva also disclosed for the first time that Phillips 66 will pay an annual dividend of 80 cents per share, with the first dividend expected to be paid in the third quarter. Therefore, if shareholders retain both their ConocoPhillips and Phillips 66 shares post-split, they can expect at least a 15-percent combined dividend increase this year, according to the chief executive.

"It's the right plan for ConocoPhillips," Mulva said of the spinoff. "…We think this is really an efficient way to accomplish repositioning. We think this downstream company will be as good or better than any other [company]."

Once the spinoff is complete, Mulva has confirmed he will retire. Ryan Lance has already been named the future CEO of the upstream ConocoPhillips company, while Greg Garland will become CEO of the downstream Phillips 66 company.

ConocoPhillips finished 2011 with $6 billion in net cash and plans to repurchase $10 billion worth of its shares by the end of 2012, Mulva concluded.

En la Gaceta de los negocios viene esta interesante noticia, no me lo puedo creer, pobre mujer.
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CASA DE ALBA
La duquesa de Alba vuelve a retrasar su viaje de novios por una bronquitis
08 MAR 2012 | E. R.
Su médico le advierte de que, si sigue sin guardar reposo, acabará en neumonía. Además del pertinaz catarro padece vértigos.


Ha vuelto a estropearse la escapada a Oriente de los duques de Alba. Nada más casarse, el viaje de novios se estropeó por asuntos de agenda. Unas semanas más tarde, con la ropa en las maletas, Cayetana resbaló al tropezarse con la alfombra cuando se dirigía a la presentación de sus memorias, Yo, Cayetana, en Sevilla. Como consecuencia se hizo una fisura en una costilla y tuvo que guardar reposo 15 días.
Ahora, los cambios constantes de temperatura le han provocado un fuerte resfriado al que no ha hecho mucho caso. Ha seguido saliendo y acudiendo a cenas y actos a pesar de las recomendaciones de su médico, el doctor Minaín, de que se quedara en casa. Lo que era catarro ha evolucionado a bronquitis con fiebre y mucha tos, además de unos vértigos que padece hace tiempo. Tras una regañina, la duquesa ha aceptado quedarse en casa ante el riesgo de sufrir una neumonía.
El fin de semana lo pasó al aire libre con sus nietos Luis y Amina y su hijo Cayetano en la finca Las Arroyuelas, pero aún no se ha restablecido su relación con su hijo Jacobo, conde de Siruela, tras las declaraciones que su madre hizo sobre su mujer Inka Martí. En ellas, la acusaba de envidiosa y de malaconsejar a su marido.
Hace mucho que Alfonso Díez y la duquesa planean un viaje largo a Tailandia para recorrer el país y todos sus mercadillos.
http://www.intereconomia.com/noticias-gaceta/sociedad/duquesa-alba-vuelve-retrasar-su-viaje-novios-por-una-bronquitis-20120307