Press Releases from Brightbridge Wealth Management (13 total)
Brightbridge Wealth Management Headlines:World nuclear powers on after Fukushima …
LONDON, March 8 (Reuters) – A year after the Fukushima nuclear accident most of the world continues running and building nuclear power, but extra risk control measures imposed in the wake of the disaster will increase the cost of operating nuclear plants.
Japan’s reactor meltdowns at the Fukushima nuclear plant triggered by a deadly earthquake and tsunami on March 11 last year shook the nuclear world and raised a question…
Brightbridge Wealth Management Headlines:A New Frontier for Football: Russia, On …
The largest country on the planet is gearing up for the FIFA World Cup.
On 2 December 2010, the FIFA Executive Committee made an historic decision, naming Russia host of the 2018 FIFA World CupTM. Russia’s inspirational bid won the absolute majority it needed to secure world sport’s greatest prize.
A star-studded Russian delegation attended the ceremony in snow-clad Zurich; illustrious names like: Igor Shuvalov, First Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian…
Brightbridge Wealth Management Headlines : Stronger U.S. economy sparks robust t …
The pall of Europe’s debt crisis is obscuring evidence that the rest of the global economy is in decent shape. Stock markets slumped Friday after European finance ministers said the Greek government must take more steps to secure further aid, triggering the departure of six ministers from Prime Minister Lucas Papademos’s cabinet and fuelling violent street protests in Athens. But away from the noise and confusion of European capitals, and…
Brightbridge Wealth Management Headlines: Zurich streets among Europe’s most c …
by Matthew Allen in Zurich
Everyone needs to learn to share the streets (Keystone)
Zurich car drivers spend more time stuck in traffic jams than in most other European cities, but the city is unrepentant about its pedestrian friendly policy.
A recent survey has revealed that more than a quarter of roads in Switzerland’s main business conglomeration are clogged, putting Zurich in 16th place in the list of most congested cities.
The survey…
Brightbridge Wealth Management Headlines: EFETnet and DTCC Selected by Industry …
Collaboration Combines EFETnet’s strength in the commodities market with DTCC’s in OTC derivatives trade repositories
NEW YORK & AMSTERDAM–(BUSINESS WIRE)–EFETnet and DTCC Deriv/SERV LLC (DTCC), announced that the two at-cost, user governed industry cooperatives are collaborating with market participants in the commodities industry to establish a global Commodity Derivatives Trade Repository. The proposed new repository, which will be domiciled in Europe and jointly owned by DTCC and EFETnet, follows EFETnet and…
Brightbridge Wealth Management Headlines: Tweeters around the world mark Twitter …
BARRY DIDCOCK
16 Jul 2011
MOST five-year-olds celebrate their birthday by gorging on cake, necking fizzy drinks and arguing about whether Lord Voldemort could take the Transformers in a straight fight.
Twitter, however, was far too busy yesterday to blow out candles. The micro-blogging site and communications phenomenon turned five and to mark the occasion, the world got tweeting – about Twitter.
“Twitter is five today. That’s like 80 in social media years,”…
Brightbridge Wealth Management Headlines: Village OKs Consultant For Future Down …
By Melanie Santostefano
Village trustees voted Monday night to hire Evanston-based Teska Associates to move forward on the development of downtown Lake Zurich.
At the meeting, the consultant firm was asked to tweak its proposal to include more detail on project expectations and deliverables.
Among the newly outlined project objectives, which will not exceed $32,825, will be a financial analysis of the debt owed in the tax increment financing (TIF) district and an…
Brightbridge Wealth Management Headlines Airbnb offers $50,000 insurance policy …
Airbnb announced a $50,000 insurance policy and the formation of a 24/7 customer support hotline Monday after two users recently said their use of the company’s travel services had left them the victims of vandalism and theft.
Up to this point, Airbnb — a website that connects travelers with people who are willing to host travelers — had been on a hot streak: It had landed high-profile celebrity and tech investor…
Brightbridge Wealth Management Headlines:D.B. Cooper hijacking mystery is revive …
A retired law enforcement official reportedly tipped the FBI to a connection between a man who died a decade ago and the man known as D.B. Cooper, who leaped from a jetliner he skyjacked in 1971. An FBI official tells a Seattle newspaper the tip is “pretty interesting.”
A 1971 artist’s sketch released by the FBI shows the skyjacker known as “D.B. Cooper.” (FBI)
D.B. Cooper, the infamous hijacker who leaped…
Brightbridge Wealth Management Headlines: Google cuts deal for Dealmap
Can I get a discount for some Groupon envy treatment?
Google has acquired Dealmap, a California-based startup that will fuel Mountain View’s efforts to mimic Groupon.
Launched in May 2010, Dealmap aggregates “daily deals” from hundreds of sources, and according to the company, its various services are now used by over 2 million people.
“We are impressed with what The Dealmap team has accomplished and excited to welcome them to Google,” Google said…
Brightbridge Wealth Management Headlines:Analysis: Time to move some money to st …
(Reuters) – Commodities have lost their luster for leading investment strategists on fears that global economic growth, particularly Chinese demand, may be lower than previously expected.
Instead, they are recommending investing in large-cap U.S. companies whose earnings have historically varied less through economic cycles. That includes defensive areas such as household products and utilities but also some technology and industrial companies.
Investors became more cautious about commodities after last week’s vicious unwind…
BWM Headlines: Social Media, a non-event at this year’s World Economic Forum o …
By: Garreth Bloor: Staff reporter
http://memeburn.com/2011/05/social-media-a-non-event-at-this-year%E2%80%99s-world-economic-forum-on-africa/
Social media was certainly officially present, but not fussed over at the recent World Economic Forum (WEF) on Africa which was held in Cape Town, South Africa. Without any specific headline focus on technology, the keynote plenary session kicked off with South African President Jacob Zuma as leaders assessed the rise of emerging markets in “the new global reality”.
While Zuma and others discussed the implications of…
Brightbridge Wealth Management Headlines: Facebook executive takes heat in heari …
By: Jim Puzzanghera
Reporting from Washington—
A leading senator, angry that Facebook Inc. failed to stop millions of preteens from using its social networking site, accused co-founder Mark Zuckerberg of lacking “social values” and being more concerned with building the company than with children’s privacy.
“It’s my general feeling that people who are 20, 21, 22 years old really don’t have any social values at this point,” Senate Commerce Committee Chairman John D.…
