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The finance ministers (Finance Minister) will be reported to the European Union agreed to financial assistance to Greece. That decision will be issued today, when they gathered in Brussels, to discuss the latest developments in the home country’s financial crisis Olympiad.

Only, about values and what form of assistance, it has not been decided. “The amount and the new mechanism is decided upon, if Greece was asked,” said EU sources told Reuters on Sunday (14/3/2010)

But, added the source is, in principle, the European Union has approved the aid about the facility. Currently, the European Commission and the Eurogroup special unit in the process of finalization of the technical problems to help.

Some time ago, the Guardian has written that the value provided assistance to Greece reached 25 billion euro. Greece itself planning utangan seek senilai53, 2 billion euros.

There are as many as 16 state finance ministers which met user euro today, discussing the development of Greece. Last week, the country’s parliament agreed to cut spending and increase taxes to 4.8 billion euros (6.5 billion U.S. dollars). This third-saving proposal that would ask Greece to the EU. Two formerly rejected the proposal.

Still controversy

Anyway, yesterday, the French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde doubt that the meeting today would agree about the aid to Greece. “I’m sure, the meeting will not decide anything,” he said.

Only, the source said, from several options, the European Union consider to provide bilateral assistance and debt guarantees. “The team just completed a technical problem and Germany be the deciding factor here,” he said.

Indeed, Germany became the countries most opposed granting financial assistance to Greece. The reason, Greece had violated European Union rules by giving the figures are not statistically valid and hide debt value and the actual deficit. Read the rest of this entry »

Indonesia and Japan have a close relationship that is very important in economic perspective. Until now, Japan remains a major investor in various business sectors of Indonesia and continue to demonstrate commitment to improving industrial capacity.

Indonesia trade balance with Japan was still a surplus. In fact, when the global crisis hit Japan which affects the performance decrease in imports, Indonesia is still able to record a surplus in exports for U.S. $ 9 billion.

It was made by Minister of Industry, Mohammad S Hidayat after arriving in Tokyo, Sunday (14.3.2010). Minister of Industry with 32 businessmen and 30 officials of echelon I and II, Ministry of Industry and other ministries for bilateral meetings and dialogues with Japanese businessmen.

According to the plan, this Monday, Minister of Industry will talk covered with Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Japan Naoshima. Hidayat said the government leaders of both countries have a strong commitment to building closer cooperation. Read the rest of this entry »

Business franchises and licenses in salon services sector is estimated to still be in demand until next year. Because the business was assessed immune to the global financial crisis and has a large market share.

This was conveyed by the Chairman of Franchising and Licensing Association of Indonesia (GUARDIAN) Levita Supit, on the sidelines of a press conference, at the Hotel Redtop, Jakarta, Thursday (5 / 11). “The mothers were mending enggak enggak shopping dining and home care. As long as women are still lots and along the woman was still there, the service industry will be flying,” he said.

In addition, he also predicted for next year’s food and beverage sector is also still in demand. He gave an example, for the food sector is generally desirable types of businesses such as restaurants that offer cheap prices for the medium.
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The price of gold in the international market falls below the 1100 level of U.S. dollar after the last few days is above that level.

On the New York Mercantile Exchange, in trading Wednesday (23/2/2010) local time, gold prices closed at 1096.50 U.S. dollars per troy ounce or less expensive than Tuesday at 1102.70 U.S. dollar positions.

The decline also occurred in Hong Kong market on Thursday morning. Precious metal prices opened lower on the position 1.096,50-1.097,50 U.S. dollars per ounce, or down compared to yesterday’s closing on the U.S. dollar 1.100,00-1.101,00 position.

As you may already know, mutual funds (mutual fund) is a vehicle that is used to collect public funds (investors) to then be invested into the portfolio of securities by investment managers (MI). Portfolio securities may be stocks, bonds, money market instruments, or a combination of several of them.

People say do not put your eggs in one basket. That is, to optimize the benefits while minimizing the risk diversification that needs to be done when there is a loss in one asset, can still be cover with other assets to avoid the maximum loss. Consequently, we need to build a portfolio of assets, the collection of assets with different risk profiles such as stocks, bonds, deposits, and others. Fuss, to build an ideal portfolio of funds required a relatively large; my calculations, at least not have to Rp 10 billion.

Mutual funds emerged as a solution to the investor no longer trouble in investing. The difficulty of mepet funds, lack of knowledge and information, lack of time and energy to monitor the portfolio, and other risks can be overcome by mutual funds. As an illustration, Indonesia’s current population of about 230 million people, but the funds collected in the new fund about Rp 60 trillion alone (2006). That means mutual funds still a good vehicle and the potential for investment.

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