All GLG News Analyses Filed Under: Financial Forecasting & Analysis

Economic  policy  globally  is  today  focused  on  inflationary  concerns  combined  with  keeping  the  growth  momentum. The  subprime  crisis  has  amply  demonstrated  that  the  creation...

Often a natural reaction to an economic downturn in most types of businesses is to cut expenses.  The first areas of the business to get whacked are the Marketing, HR departments.  That's right, the communication vehicle to its customers and the heart & soul of its company. 

This article describes the strategies companies should take to increase customer value in an economic downturn. During these periods, companies should focus on identifying, understanding and catering to their best and high potential customers thus increasing their value to the organization. The...

Customer Value Propositions (CVPs) in down-turn economy should be seriously considered akin to CSR programs and that there need to be a new syndrome or modelling under economic terms of what can be termed as CUSTOMER SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY (CUSOR). If customers are not driven to their home-deliverieson...

While the figures in the article may well reflect the numbers, there is more to the story than actual write-downs and capital raising. To bring these into proper perspective and allow a risk adjusted view, each individual bank's business model, diversity of revenue and overall risk profile must...

Lehman Brothers has a very weak equity capital position, too many illiquid and hard to value assets, a poorly diversified business and the weakest global reach of all of the investment banks. The loss of confidence in the CDS and equity options market will be hard to recover. Why should it and...

It's just astonishing how much junk you can find lying around your bank, especially if you've been collecting things for as long as Citigroup has. Selling $500b in non core assets. Which will help in the short term what about the long term? have we learned nothing from Chainsaw Al (Sunbeam)? Pandit,...

The subprime crisis started in America  but  has  stinged and burned  financial institutions and businesses  the  world over. The  referred  article speaks  of  downsizing and  sell off  by  Citigroup  at  CitiFinancial - a ...

Economic viability depend on two major variables. Volume Growth: How many more 9 liter cases had been considered to the analysis? Brand Profitabilty: How will the profit after marketing be increased on a unitary basis?  Shelf price increases may be difficult given the crowed premium vodka...

Maybank, the Malaysia biggest bank is walk out of Asian Financial Crisis, after acquired 56% of Bank Internasional Indonesia now planning to acquire Vietnam's An Binh Bank, thanks to the bold move to curb the crisis ten years ago.