Blog 25

Taco Bell is certainly on top of things after opening its first International fast food restaurant in Bangalore, India on March 16th. This is brilliance because you have a young population with improving standards of living and enthusiasm to sell too. There menu starts with 40 cent items but attract over 2500 people a day. This is only the first one too. This is smart by taco bell, I think because they know the U.S is in a hole and they need to find a way out. This is definetly going to be the start of getting out of that hole. They are doing everything they can to increase sales and I think that by opening in India its just the beginning.

Crude Oil just doesnt seem to stop rising but I dont understand why we depend on foreign countries when we have all the natural resources in our own continent. Why spend all this money over there and not use our own natural resources. Crude oil rose 3% and a barrel is now $82.17. This is ridiculous I think. We are wasting so much money getting oil from Iran and the Middle East. I think we need to cut these expenditures off and start using our own oil. The prices are ecomincally outrageuos for the middle class of the U.S. and someone needs to stand up for these people. This generation is not going to make if it if somthing doesnt happen soon.

Blog #22 3/30/10

The new iPhone might be supported by other corporations other then AT&T Service's and be able to sell it as well. I think that if they want the consumer to keep buying they have to adapt to these changes. They must make the conusmer and middle class people happy not just the wealthy. If Sprint and Verizon offer these then Apple Inc. will make more money in the long run. I don't know why people are freaking out about this because it will prolly be cheaper for them to have a smartphone that they always dreamed of having. It will open up a whole new market of sales for Apple Inc. Its an awesome idea and this bussiness is going far by thinking creative and making the consumers happy.

Blog #21

Toyota is really in trouble if you want my opinion. They are trying to do anything they can now to grab on to most of there customers. They just started a new sales campaign to bring the consumers back hopefully. I think its too late. They are offering 0% loans, free insurance, and fuel, and even free roadside assistance? That's just insanity. How do yo even survive making profit on those terms? It sounds convincing but I think its already too late for them. They are trying to reflect the seriousness of there crisis. Like I said before Toyota will be nothing shortly. Just give it a little more time.

Blog #20

In order to sales to go up in Ct, it needs to snow more according to the sales increases in febuary. People had nothing better to do on these snow days so they went out and purchased all the new spring arrivals. Last year the consumers didnt help out the outlets and had a huge fall in sales, but right now they are up to a 4/1% increase in sales. American Eagle, Nordstrom. J.C. Penny, all reported an increase in sales in febuary. They said people are coming out of hibernation. I wouldnt get too excited though. There isnt too many snow days in march and throughout rest of year. So hopefully, they will still keep rising.

Blog #19

Finally Apple Inc's will have some competiton as Sony produces some new gadgets in 2010. They are coming out with a new smart phone tht will be capable of playing video games on it as well s all the features on other smartphones. It was designed to compete against the new Ipad tablet. I personally don't think Sont will be successful in keeping up with Apple. They are trying to counter Apple's wide range of products but after having a 41% decrease last month alone, they are really going to have to impress the consumer in this rough time. Time will tell for Sony though.

Blog 18

Banking on Sunshine States can have its dark clouds as well. California, Texas, and Florida are always impacted by the sun, but also withered. They are in some deep waters with some fiscal problems and growth of these states is diminishing. No one has any money. According to the loan rates, geography matters. States can slip into long term underperformance. Fiscal problems are serious in these states right now, and the rebound will be challenging. They defiently are at risk for tax increases which is nothing new to anyone. Hopefully we all get out of this recession and are succesfull in life, but that time is far from here I think.

Blog 17

Of course investing oversea's is getting scarier, but still makes perfect sense because of the outcome of the U.S. dollar. They have already dropped more then 33 billion dollars into international stock markets and that was in 2009 alone. This year was expected to be way more because of the 13.2% annual profit gain. I can understand why they are scared because of the other international currencies are not equivalent to ours. Sometimes you just have to live on the edge, and take a chance. They have been making profit that is reasonable so why stop now?

Blog 16

So now they are blaming snow storms for a decrease in sales. Toyota is suspected to see losses of about 25% but other corporations are expected to see 25% increases in sales. Ford, Nissan, and Hyundai Motor Corporations are the way to go. I personally drive a ford and always will. I dont trust any of these european built cars especially toyota. I buy american and something thats built ford tough. We have had some big storms hitting the eastern coast, but you can't blame the storms for not selling cars. We are just in a tough time and no one has any money to buy new cars. Don't blame it on the snowflakes, a real business would just say its a rough time period but keep on striving for sales.