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      FD
    • 23 junho 2010

     # 101

    Muitas vezes somos tidos como os pobrezinhos, de espírito ou não, da União Europeia. Em muitos discursos recorre-se ao "lá fora", "em países civilizados" para demonstrar que somos "atrasadinhos".
    O futebol, por exemplo, é muitas vezes acusado de assumir uma condição de maná.
    Mas, para mostrar que não estamos sós e que essa coisa de se ser "atrasadinho" ou parolo não é exclusivo de um país ou que outros países também se portam da mesma forma:

    Many schools will close at lunch time and workers will be sent home early as the country grinds to a halt for England's crucial World Cup game.
    Thousands of employees are expected to take "sickies" and energy companies have warned of a massive power surge after the game kicks off at 3pm.

    England's last big match on a working day, against Brazil in the World Cup eight years ago, led to the second biggest TV pick-up of all time.

    Headteachers at a number of schools have written to parents to tell them that their children will be allowed home early.
    Other schools will allow pupils to watch the game on televisions and some businesses have even erected giant screens for staff.

    Around 58% of firms are likely to allow staff to view the big game at work, according to a survey by npower.

    Absenteeism during the 2006 tournament cost UK businesses an estimated £100m per day.

    Nine per cent of people said they would consider pulling a sickie this year while nearly one in five admitted they might leave work before the end of the day.

    Experts expect a soaring number of sickies as people who can't see the tie, which takes place in Port Elizabeth, stay at home.

    Pubs - still battling cheap supermarket alcohol and the effects of the smoking ban - are expecting the busiest weekday afternoon in years.

    Kent's Bluewater's Showcase Cinema will show the game free of charge on one of its screens.

    Meanwhile bookmakers said they had taken more money on a Slovenia win than on England.

    William Hill spokesman Graham Sharpe said: "Amazingly, Slovenia would be a five-figure loser for us and England a clear winning result as the book stands at the moment."

    Npower is urging businesses to turn off computers, copiers and other non-essential equipment to keep energy consumption to a minimum during the match.

    http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/World-Cup-England-Against-Slovenia-Football-Game-Will-See-Schools-And-Businesses-Close-Early/Article/201006415653376?lpos=UK_News_News_Your_Way_Region_5&lid=NewsYourWay_ARTICLE_15653376_World_Cup%3A_England_Against_Slovenia_Football_Game_Will_See_Schools_And_Businesses_Close_Early_

  2.  # 102

    Fora os Conselhos da União Europeia que suspendem os trabalhos para ver a bola (ia escrever Conselhos Europeus porque penso que é o caso, mas como não tenho 100% de certeza fico-me pelo patamar abaixo).

  3.  # 103

  4.  # 104

    Mau...

    http://www.zerohedge.com/article/portuguese-bank-borrowings-ecb-more-double-may-hit-all-time-record-%E2%82%AC358-billion

    Obviamente, os bancos portugueses deixaram de conseguir dinheiro emprestado de outros bancos desde Abril ou isso.
    •  
      FD
    • 24 junho 2010

     # 105

    Colocado por: lobitoMau...

    Colocado por: lobitoresolvi abrir um tópico só com boas noticias

    Então?

  6.  # 106

    Colocado por: FD
    Colocado por: lobitoMau...

    Colocado por: lobitoresolvi abrir um tópico só com boas noticias

    Então?


    Não consigo resistir a um bom gráfico... ;-)

  7.  # 107

    Colocado por: lobitoMau...

    http://www.zerohedge.com/article/portuguese-bank-borrowings-ecb-more-double-may-hit-all-time-record-%E2%82%AC358-billion

    Obviamente, os bancos portugueses deixaram de conseguir dinheiro emprestado de outros bancos desde Abril ou isso.


    E os espanhois.....

    Aliás, mesmo os Estados estão a vender a dívida ao BCE, à socapa.

  8.  # 108

    Colocado por: luisvv
    Colocado por: lobitoMau...

    http://www.zerohedge.com/article/portuguese-bank-borrowings-ecb-more-double-may-hit-all-time-record-%E2%82%AC358-billion

    Obviamente, os bancos portugueses deixaram de conseguir dinheiro emprestado de outros bancos desde Abril ou isso.


    E os espanhois.....

    Aliás, mesmo os Estados estão a vender a dívida ao BCE, à socapa.


    Mas pelo menos até agora ainda não começaram a pôr o ouro no prego.
    • lobito
    • 24 junho 2010 editado

     # 109

    E depois o ClubMed é que se reforma não sei quantos anos antes dos virtuosos países do norte:

    "Today, the State Pension age for men is 65, but this will rise in the future. Starting on 6 April 2010 the State Pension age for women began to change from 60 to 65."

    "Men born before 6 April 1945 usually need 44 qualifying years.
    Women born before 6 April 1950 usually need 39 qualifying years.
    Men born after 5 April 1945 need 30 qualifying years.
    Women born after 5 April 1950 need 30 qualifying years."

  10.  # 110

    Mas pelo menos até agora ainda não começaram a pôr o ouro no prego.


    Não, porque neste momento o que o BCE está a fazer é quase como imprimir dinheiro..

  11.  # 111

    • lobito
    • 26 junho 2010 editado

     # 112

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    • lobito
    • 14 julho 2010 editado

     # 114

    O Financial Times tem um esquema esquisito em que deixa ler os artigos mas não deixar clicar links lá dentro. Portanto, na dúvida, vou pôr aqui este artigo todo. Eles fizeram uma série de uns 10 artigos sobre Portugal, alguns bastante interessantes.

    Eu também gostava de ter uns sapatos chiques que se mantivessem impermeáveis durante 16 horas, mas não estou para dar 600 euros por um par de sapatos:

    The footwear industry: Sharper shoes find high-class niche

    Peter Wise

    Published: July 14 2010 01:01 | Last updated: July 14 2010 01:01

    Hard Hearted Harlot, Fly London, Eject. The names of Portuguese footwear brands tell the story of a sector that has evolved in less than a decade from low-cost manufacturing for the mass market to making award-winning designs for sophisticated young fashionistas .

    “Between 2002 and 2005, most of the big multinational shoe manufacturers based in Portugal moved to China, India and eastern Europe where costs are much lower,” says Joaquim Carvalho, part-owner of a small, but internationally successful footwear company. “The industry was forced to give up competing on the basis of low wages and has had to invest in technology, design and marketing.”

    As a result, says José Vieira da Silva, the economy minister, “everything has changed in the Portuguese shoe industry”.

    “We have fewer firms, but they have moved up the value chain. Instead of producing cheap sports shoes as subcontractors for big international brands, they are exporting their own cutting-edge designs for affluent, fashion-conscious buyers.”

    In a measure of this transformation, the average export price of Portuguese shoes is now the second-highest in the world after Italy at just over €20 ($25) a pair. Footwear, like Portugal’s other traditional sectors – textiles, garments, ceramics and timber products – is changing from a labour-intensive industry competing in mass markets for cheap products to a sector producing small series of higher quality shoes incorporating Portuguese design, technology and marketing skills.

    “Competing on price offers Portugal no future,” says Joaquim Leandro de Melo, head of the country’s Footwear Technology Centre (CTC), based in the industry’s northern heartland. “Portuguese companies now export mainly to small retail networks and independent shops where they can more easily place products with sophisticated designs and a high technical performance,” he says. “They specialise in small runs with a fast turnaround of the kind that can’t be achieved by mass producers.”

    Many Portuguese producers are happy to accept orders for a single pair of shoes or boots. The pop star Madonna and British footballer David Beckham are said to be among these individual customers – with shoe sizes of 37.5 and 42.5 respectively, according to industry insiders.

    Mr Carvalho’s company, J. Sampaio & Irmão, makes about 800 pairs a day and its Eject brand, characterised by vivid colours and bold designs, has captured a young, urban market across the world.

    Buyers from Montreal to Moscow post photographs of themselves wearing the latest Eject models on the brand’s website, with comments such as “I am in love with the 11576/1 Crossa boots. Thank you!”

    “Our producers do not have the size or the investment capacity to become global brands,” says Mr Leandro de Melo. “But Portuguese brands are gaining increasing visibility in targeted market segments and a number are creating an outstanding name for themselves.”

    One key to their evolution, he says, has been the successful adoption of a cluster strategy. “The industry has developed in a balanced way as a cluster that includes machinery manufacturers, leather and other material suppliers and the footwear producers themselves. These mean the whole value chain is based inside Portugal.”

    Since it was founded in 1965, Artur Pinho, another northern-based footwear company, had made men’s shoes as subcontractor for international brands. “We had an excellent reputation in the industry for the quality of our products, but we were completely anonymous as far as consumers were concerned,” says Augusto Cristino, its chief executive.

    Ahead of the global downturn in 2008, the company decided to design its own brand of classic men’s shoes, John Lake, which proved popular in markets including Australia and Dubai, achieving a turnover of €2.5m within two years.

    Encouraged by this success, Mr Cristino put his experience as a golfer and a shoemaker to the test, convinced that he could produce professional golf shoes that would remain impermeable for longer than existing top-of-the-range products.

    The company’s Greenway brand of golf shoes was two years in development, but emerged with an impermeability that lasts for more than double Mr Cristino’s initial target of eight hours.

    The shoes, which he describes as the “Rolls Royce” of golfing footwear, sell for about €600 a pair and have gained a substantial market in Germany and Japan. Mr Cristino expects them to account for about 30 per cent of the company’s turnover by next year.

    Whether they focus on “irreverent” styles for urban youngsters or high performance shoes for horse riding, fire fighting or industry, successful Portuguese footwear companies have made important investments in advanced technology.

    “Most companies use automatic cutting systems involving water jets, lasers or blades,” says Mr Leandro de Melo. “Laser engraving on the finished article is also used to create distinctive products that are difficult to imitate.”

    Advances in technology, design and marketing have helped make footwear Portugal’s most export-intensive industry. About 1,300 small manufacturers sell 96 per cent of their output in 132 overseas markets led by France, Germany and the UK. After a 6.4 per cent drop in shoe exports last year – Portuguese exports were down 18 per cent overall – the industry is forecasting growth of 2 to 3 per cent in 2010.

    Mr Vieira da Silva says the performance and the international image of the industry has improved to point where manufacturers are beginning to use Portuguese brand names, instead of the mainly English names they have adopted to date. “This,” he says, “is a clear sign of market recognition.”

  15.  # 115

    Talvez não seja o tópico certo para isto, mas esta notícia e os factos que lhe estão subjacentes dizem muito sobre o valor, e a utilidade dos bens.

    http://www.tvi24.iol.pt/internacionalonal/trocas-eua-telemovel-porsche-tvi24-adolescente/1179291-3212.html

    E nem é o 1º caso (em tempos houve alguém que começou com um clip para acabar com uma casa, salvo erro).

  16.  # 116

    E a proposito de valor e utilidade dos bens, quem é que me explica para que é que servem as reservas de ouro se não podem ser usadas no orçamento do Estado???
    •  
      FD
    • 22 julho 2010

     # 117

    Colocado por: luisvvhttp://www.tvi24.iol.pt/internacionalonal/trocas-eua-telemovel-porsche-tvi24-adolescente/1179291-3212.html

    Na senda de discussões anteriores, um especulador?

  18.  # 118

    Colocado por: lobitoE a proposito de valor e utilidade dos bens, quem é que me explica para que é que servem as reservas de ouro se não podem ser usadas no orçamento do Estado???


    O ouro é uma reserva de valor, teoricamente muito menos volátil que a moeda - ao contrário desta, não se pode imprimir ouro.

  19.  # 119

    Na senda de discussões anteriores, um especulador?


    De certa maneira, sim. Mas as coisas são como são : se eu vender a casa mais cara que a comprei, fiz um "bom negócio" . Se uma empresa compra um terreno para construir um prédio e ter lucro com a sua venda, chama-se "especulação imobiliária".

  20.  # 120

    Boas

    Se não for aqui o local próprio, a autora do tópico que me desculpe.

    Piano para a aldeia

    cumps
    José Cardoso

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