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Research Report on Brazilian Cell Phone Market, 2009-2010

Wed, 05 May 2010 07:49:02 +0000

By: Alice Chen

Brazil has the best industrial system and strongest economic forces in Latin America. By the end of 2008, Brazil had a population of over 180 million.

In 2008, Brazilian GDP was nearly 2.9 trillion BRL (1.3 trillion USD), rising by 5.1% compared with 2007. Per-capita GDP was 15,000 BRL (6,730 USD), rising by 4% compared with 2007. Since 2004, Brazilian economy has remained increasing rapidly with an annual economic growth rate of 4.62%.

Brazil has huge telecommunication market potentials. By the end of 2008, the number of Brazilian mobile communication users reached 150.64 million, rising by 24.52% compared with the end of 2007. By the end of June, 2009, the number of Brazilian mobile communication users was nearly 160 million.

Brazil telecommunication equipment market was opened earlier in the world and it is a widely open market. It has attracted many foreign enterprises to invest in Brazil, including Chinese telecommunication equipment companies. As a Chinese company, Huawei invested early in Brazilian telecommunication equipment market and it signed the cooperation agreement with Brazilian telecommunication operator – Telemar in November, 2004. In the agreement, all the telecommunication equipments were manufactured by Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd and exported to Brazil Telemar Company.

Brazilian cell phone market has international brands such as Nokia, Motorola and Apple as well as local brands as Evadin. Brazilian mobile communication market mainly has four standards (GSM, CDMA, TDMA and WCDMA) and about 90% are GSM users. GSM cell phones are the main products in Brazilian cell phone market. In 2008, Brazilian cell phone market introduced 253 new cell phone models, among which there were 195 GSM cell phones, 56 WCDMA cell phones and 2 CDMA cell phones. In the first half of 2009, Brazilian cell phone market introduced 142 new cell phone models, among which there were 116 GSM cell phones and 26 WCDMA cell phones.

As one of the BRICs, Brazilian cell phone market focused on medium and low-level cell phones. Considering functions, most users tend to buy cell phones with cameras and Bluetooth.

Brazil hasn’t engaged too much in the global economy and it hasn’t been affected by the global financial crisis severely. Brazilian foreign trades account for about 22% of GDP. To stimulate domestic demands, from February 1st, 2009, Brazilian government improved the lowest monthly wage standard from 415 BRL (about 174 USD) to 465 BRL (195 USD).

It is estimated that Brazilian economy will remain a growth rate of 0.5% to 1% in 2009, instead of decreasing.

This report mainly studies the production, sales, exports and imports, and market competitions of Brazilian cell phones. It also analyzes in detail Brazilian telecommunication industry, especially the mobile communication industry. This report has high reference values for understanding Brazilian cell phone market and seizing investment opportunities.

Through this report, readers can acquire more information:

- Present situation of Brazilian telecommunication market

- Present situation of Brazilian mobile telecommunication market

- Production in Brazilian cell phone market

- Demands in Brazilian cell phone market

- Import and export of Brazilian cell phone industry

- Main competitive brands in Brazilian cell phone market

- Influences of the global financial crisis on Brazilian cell phone market

- Investment opportunities in Brazilian cell phone market

Following persons are suggested to buy this report:

- Cell phone manufacturers concerning Brazilian cell phone market

- Traders concerning Brazilian cell phone market

- Mobile communication operators

- Investors concerning Brazilian cell phone market

- Research institutions concerning Brazilian cell phone market

- Other persons concerning Brazilian cell phone market

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New Fico Credit Scoring System Could Help or Hurt You

Wed, 05 May 2010 07:49:01 +0000

By: Mike Clover

Fair Isaac has announced a 2009 makeover to the credit scoring system that most companies use to determine your credit worthiness. The company says as many as half of all borrowers will see their scores go up or down by about 20 points as a result.

One bit of good news is that an occasional missed payment will not carry the detrimental weight it once did. They’ll be looking more at history and patterns of financial behavior.

Another change will see the amount of balances a consumer carries as being more important than the total number of accounts open.

Scores will still be on a 300- 850 point scale, but now instead of 10 categories, consumers will fall into one of 12 categories. Infrequent problem borrowers will no longer be lumped in with habitual delinquents.

The new rules are also once again allowing piggybacking – the method by which parents or other friendly mentors can allow a person to become an authorized user on their credit card accounts, and thus “borrow” some of their good credit history.

This practice was common a few years ago, and was widely used by parents to help children begin building a good credit history. Then private companies began marketing a service that paired people with bad credit with others with good credit, so they could qualify for loans.

Seeing that abuse – and unintended use – FICO barred the practice. Parents could still add kids as authorized users, but it wouldn’t assist them in building credit. Now that opportunity is back, but it will be more difficult to establish. FICO says it now has technology that will let it filter out anyone who is trying to play the system.

In addition to young people starting out, women have traditionally been added as authorized users on their husband’s accounts – thus giving them a credit score. Fair Isaac estimates that 30% all credit card holders are authorized users, rather than card owners.

Under the new rules it will take longer for these women to build credit, so a better plan might be for them to get a credit card in their own names, even if it must be a secured card.

Secured credit cards are, of course, also a good way for parents to help children establish a credit record.

Equifax and TransUnion will be first to roll out the changes, which will occur some time this year. Keep an eye on your credit score to see how it will affect you. And in the meantime, keep working to build the score, just in case you’re one of the ones whose score might fall as a result of the makeover.

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Wells Fargo Auto Finance Pulls Out of Canada

Wed, 05 May 2010 07:48:08 +0000

By: Auto Source Financial

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The Effect of the American financial crisis has now started to affect the Canadian Automotive Industry.

Wells Fargo Financial, headquartered in Des Moines, Iowa, is an $18 billion company providing installment and home equity lending, automobile financing, consumer and private label credit cards, leasing, technology services, and receivables financing to consumers and businesses in 47 U.S. states, all 10 provinces of Canada, and the Caribbean.

An affiliate of Wells Fargo Financial, Wells Fargo Auto Finance a division of Wells Fargo Financial Retail Services Company Canada which has been offering non-prime financing programs to dealers across Canada since 1995 has pulled out of Canada

As of November 12th, 2008 Wells Fargo Auto Finance has made the difficult decision to exit the indirect lending channel in Canada. Wells Fargo continuously reviews its operations and makes changes when necessary to align with the current market environment.

New and used Auto Dealers across Canada were notified quietly the Effective as of noon Eastern time November 12th, Wells Fargo Auto Finance will no longer be accepting credit applications from Canadian auto dealers.

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Bajaj Auto Finance Limited – Financial Analysis Review–Aarkstore Enterprise

Wed, 05 May 2010 07:48:05 +0000

By: Aarkstore Enterprise

Summary

Bajaj Auto Finance Ltd. (BAFL) is an asset finance company engaged in financing two wheelers, consumer durables, personal computers and personal loans. The company is registered with RBI as a Non Banking Finance Company (NBFC) and its product portfolio consists of business loans, consumer durable loans, IT product loans, loans against property and shares, personal loans, two wheeler loans and insurance services. The company also provides free personal accident insurance. The company has a network of over 6000 consumer durable dealerships and over 50 branch offices throughout the country. BAFL is primarily a group company of Bajaj Auto Ltd.

Bajaj Auto Finance Limited – Financial Analysis Review is an in-depth business, financial analysis of Bajaj Auto Finance Limited. The report provides a comprehensive insight into the company, including business structure and operations, executive biographies and key competitors. The hallmark of the report is the detailed financial ratios of the company

Scope

- Provides key company information for business intelligence needs

The report contains critical company information – business structure and operations, the company history, major products and services, key competitors, key employees and executive biographies, different locations and important subsidiaries.

- The report provides detailed financial ratios for the past five years as well as interim ratios for the last four quarters.

- Financial ratios include profitability, margins and returns, liquidity and leverage, financial position and efficiency ratios.

Table of Contents 2

List of Tables 3

List of Figures 3

Bajaj Auto Finance Limited – Key Facts 4

Bajaj Auto Finance Limited – Business Description 4

Bajaj Auto Finance Limited – Major Products and Services 5

Bajaj Auto Finance Limited – History 5

Bajaj Auto Finance Limited – Key Competitors 6

Bajaj Auto Finance Limited – Key Employees 6

Bajaj Auto Finance Limited – Key Employee Biographies 7

Bajaj Auto Finance Limited – Locations And Subsidiaries 8

Head Office 8

Other Locations & Subsidiaries 8

Bajaj Auto Finance Limited – Financial Ratios 9

Financial Ratios – Capital Market Ratios 9

Financial Ratios – Annual Ratios 9

Financial Ratios – Interim Ratios 10

Financial Ratios – Ratio Charts 11

Appendix 12

Methodology 12

Ratio Definitions 12

About Global Markets Direct 15

Disclaimer 15

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Remove a Charge Off From Your Credit Report

Wed, 05 May 2010 07:47:48 +0000

By: Shayne A Sherman

Charge offs stay on your credit report for 7 years from the date of last activity on the account all the while damaging your credit scores. That is such a long time for one mistake to affect your entire financial being. Just one charge off can prevent you from getting credit including; a decent car loan, credit cards, personal loans or can even stop you from qualifying for a mortgage! If you do qualify your interest rate will most likely be much higher costing you tens of thousands on the loan.

Understand that the reporting of items on your credit reports is completely voluntary. No law demands that all your accounts be reported to the credit bureaus. Creditors report at their will.

If you have the ability to pay the charged account do so. The credit might accept less than what is owed as a payoff “in full” meaning that the account is satisfied and closed. What I advise is to have the creditor either update the account to “paid as agreed” “never late” or remove the account in its entirety. Get it in writing if they agree to do so before you send any money as things tend to be forgotten once the creditor gets what they want (your money).

Some creditors will lie and tell you that once a trade line is reported as “charged off” then it must remain that way. This is simply not the case as creditors use software to update the credit bureaus and can do so at anytime at their discretion. The simple fact is collection agencies delete charge offs

from credit reports using this method all the time!

If your charge off is already in a paid status then perhaps the only effective way to remove it is to dispute the accuracy of the trade line with the credit bureaus. This is can get a little complicated. There are definite right ways and wrong ways to dispute. If you mess up you can almost guarantee that the charge off account will stay with you for the entire seven years.

Shayne Sherman is a consumer credit expert and author of several credit repair blogs.

Banking and Financial Services – Essential Part of Everyone’s Life

Wed, 05 May 2010 07:47:46 +0000

By: Alex Jordon

Banking and Financial Services

Nowadays, Banking and Financial Services are an essential part of everyone’s life. Every day people use different types of banking and various financial services. Some examples include paying utility bills or insurance premiums, shopping online or through Debit/Credit Cards. These technology driven banking and financial services have simplified transactions and made life easier.

Why Banking and Financial Services?

No one is left untouched by the impact of money. We all have to rely on banking and financial service providers for effective use of our money. Be it lending, investment, or insurance, people need to depend on banking and financial service providers.

Life in the digital age has become somewhat more secure and simpler through the implementation of beneficial banking and finance practices. Different banking services provided by major banks like personal banking, enterprise banking solutions, and investment consultancy help investors properly utilize their money with the aim to grow and gain future financial benefits. There is protection which consumers may be able to obtain to ensure that your investments are protected. Insurance companies provide protection from several uncertainties that may come without notice. Life and non-life insurance covering all kinds of emergencies give people peace of mind.

Apart from that, several financial institutions provide consultancy for the right of investment so that your money is invested in the right place and your can enjoy the maximum possible benefits on your invested money. Your investments may also help in tax savings and other economic benefits.

Credit Services – Economic Relief When You Are in Need

Credit/lending services are among the most popular segment of modern banking and finance industry. We come across several situations in life when we face some sort of cash crunch at a crucial moment in life. Its times like these when banks and lending institutions come to the rescue by offering various credit schemes and loans. In addition to this consumers may also need credit to turn their dreams into reality (like buying a luxury vehicle or a dream house). This is where banking institutions can also assist us.

Credit services may help people by increasing our quality of living. Banks and lending agencies provides credit for almost every need. You can get loans not only to purchase a dream house, or luxury vehicles, but also for emergency medical treatments, higher education, or even a loan for a wedding.

In summary, different types of banking and financial services are an essential need for everyone. One cannot expect to live a comfortable financial life without the right banking and financial services assistance and security.

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Credit Card Debt Management-way to Handle Plastic Money

Wed, 05 May 2010 07:47:35 +0000

By: Alec Recce
The present day scenario is that usage of credit card has become status symbol. Most of people carry 3-4 credit cards at a time and prefer to use their plastic money rather than cash. And a non judicious approach to handle the card leads them to suffer from credit card debt burden. Credit card debts are considered as the worst debt one incurs as these cards carry high interest rate and if timely payment is not made by the user he has to pay high penalties as well.

Credit card debt management implies the way to control credit card debt at a level from where card holder can pay off the debt in smooth manner. One should first of all make a budget for controlling his expenses which is crucial for efficient management of credit cards. Also he should see if he can stop using some of the cards and instead he should use debit cards which automatically restrict him from excessive shopping. With credit card debt management program a person can easily manage his credit cards comprising with various methods like credit card debt consolidation, credit card debt negotiation or credit card debt elimination etc. With the help of credit card debt consolidation which is integral part of their management borrower can merge all their various debts into one and can easily reduce present rate of interest.

One way to credit card debt management is to look for a loan that comes at lower interest rate. Through such low interest rate loan like a secured loan or a home equity loan one can pay off all his higher interest rate credit card debts immediately. This means individual have saved lot of money that he would be paying as high interest. But if an individual does not wish to take a loan then he can request his concerned credit card companies to reduce the interest rate on the cards he holds. Many companies respond positively to the request. But if one gets negative response then he can look for other companies which provide lower rate of interest and he can transfer his credit to those companies.

Summary

Credit card debt management provides various ways through which the debts incurred due to imprudent usage of cards are efficiently handled. There are number of companies handling this issue but one should go for one which is genuine and reputed to avoid future embarrassments. This requires an exhaustive search. Thus through the help provided by the management one can go on shopping spree without any tensions.

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Low Rate Personal Loan: Borrow a Cheap Loan for Personal Needs

Wed, 05 May 2010 07:46:51 +0000

By: Johns Tiel

Low Rate Personal Loan are generally cheap in nature. They come with low interest rate to help the borrowers in fulfilling their various demands within a reasonable cost. These loans are generally secured in nature.

Low interest rate on personal loans is best ensured when you have pledge your home or a valued property as collateral. This way you cut any risks for the lenders who in turn ensure a low interest rate on the loan.

These kinds of loans can be used for various personal purposes like home improvement, education, wedding, vacation or consolidation of debts.

Through personal loan at low interest rate borrowers will avail an amount of £5000 to £75000. These loans give you not only a huge amount but also the advantage of long repayment duration. The borrowed money is to be repaid with a comfortable terms of 5 to 25 years. However the amount is mainly depend on the value of the collateral pledged.

The interest rate of secured loans is relatively low because of the security provided. Besides, some factors like, permanent employment, good employment record, good credit score work positively to make the loan rate low.

In order to get personal loans at a low rate, a borrower needs to make some research. Various banks, lending companies, financial organizations offer loans. Meet all those lenders personally, ask for their loan quotes and compare them properly. It will enable you in finding low rate loans. In case, you want fast results, you can accomplish all these by the online process as well.

Bad credit borrowers can apply for these loans. They can improve their credit score through the timely repayment of the loan.

With low interest rate personal loan, financing personal desires within a budget is possible. This option facilitates borrowers in shaping their dream without spending much.

Johns Tiel holds a master degree in Commerce from JNU. He is working as financial consultant in Chance For Loans. To find low rate personal loan, debt consolidation loans, debtconsolidation loan, cheap rates that best suits your needs visit http://www.chanceforloans.co.uk

Debt Consolidation is not Always the Right Solution

Wed, 05 May 2010 07:46:37 +0000

By: Jessica Peterson

…not all debt can be consolidated and given that there are different consolidation programs you should check if the one you chose or the one that the agent chose for you is really to your advantage.

There are many reasons why debt consolidation may not be the right solution for you. Debt consolidation cannot solve debt problems for all kind of debts.

Debt consolidation may be too expensive if debt has already affected your credit and you don’t have collateral. And certain debt consolidation programs may be nothing but scams. Thus, you need to be well aware of what you are getting into.

Debt Not To Be Consolidated

For starters, you should understand than not all debt is suitable to be consolidated. The reasons for this are varied. Most subsidized loans already carry very low interest rates and thus, it makes no sense to consolidate those loans by using a more expensive loan. This is always true, unless of course what you need is to reduce the monthly payments by extending the loan repayment period.

There are many subsidized loans. Government loans for students, private loans for students, government loans for first time home buyers, government loans for starting businesses, government loans for research disciplines, etc. are just a few examples of subsidized loans that are not suitable for consolidation.

There are loans that being secured are not suitable for consolidation. Though refinancing can be a form of consolidation if other loans and debt are repaid with the exceeding cash obtained from a cash-out refinance loan, truth is that very seldom a home loan or home equity loan is included in a debt consolidation program.

Debt Suitable For Consolidation

Generally speaking only debt which is unsecured in nature and secured debt taken when your credit score was low (bad credit debt) is suitable for debt consolidation. The latter will be suitable only if your credit score has improved or if you can provide better collateral and thus obtain a more competitive interest rate.

Examples of unsecured debt are: unsecured personal loans and personal lines of credit, credit card debt, store card debt, pay day loans, cash advance loans, certain student debt, bank account overdraw agreements, bank pre-approved personal loans. All of these can be consolidated into a single loan or the terms negotiated by a debt consolidation agent.

Debt consolidation in the form of a loan carries the advantage of obtaining a single and lower monthly payment that will simplify your budget while you work on your expenses. Debt consolidation in the form of negotiation is also an excellent tool that can provide a solution by reducing rates, eliminating debt generated by interests or extending the repayment programs so as to make debt more affordable.

And finally, both methods can be combined offering an excellent way of eliminating debt, managing finances and improving credit score in the same debt consolidation program.

Jessica Peterson writes finance articles for Yourloanservices.com where she shares her knowledge about how to get money for a starting-up business, consolidating any kind of debt, repairing a home even with a bad credit history and more.

Warrior Energy N.V. – Financial Analysis Review—-Aarkstore Enterprise

Wed, 05 May 2010 07:46:10 +0000

By: Aarkstore Enterprise

Summary

Warrior Energy N.V. (Warrior) is an independent energy company. The company is engaged in the exploration, production and development of oil and natural gas reserves. The company’s oil and gas reserves are spread across the Alberta in Canada. Warrior Holdings is the company’s wholly owned subsidiary. In the fiscal year 2008, Warrior acquired producing natural gas properties located in the Green River Basin, Wyoming.

Warrior Energy N.V. – Financial Analysis Review is an in-depth business, financial analysis of Warrior Energy N.V.. The report provides a comprehensive insight into the company, including business structure and operations, executive biographies and key competitors. The hallmark of the report is the detailed financial ratios of the company

Scope

- Provides key company information for business intelligence needs

- The report provides detailed financial ratios for the past five years as well as interim ratios for the last four quarters.

- Financial ratios include profitability, margins and returns, liquidity and leverage, financial position and efficiency ratios.

Reasons to buy

- A quick “one-stop-shop” to understand the company.

- Enhance business/sales activities by understanding customers’ businesses better.

- Get detailed information and financial analysis on companies operating in your industry.

- Identify prospective partners and suppliers – with key data on their businesses and locations.

- Compare your company’s financial trends with those of your peers / competitors.

- Scout for potential acquisition targets, with detailed insight into the companies’ financial and operational performance.

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