Japan struggles to avert meltdown at quake-hit plant By Hiroshi Hiyama Agence France-Presse First Posted 10:49:00 03/14/2011 Filed Under: Asia Australia – East Asia, Earthquake, Disasters (general), Nuclear power SENDAI — Japan raced to avert a meltdown of two reactors at a quake-hit nuclear plant Monday as the death toll from the disaster on the ravaged northeast coast was forecast to exceed 10000. Prime Minister Naoto Kan said according to Kyodo News that the Fukushima plant where crews are struggling to control overheating reactors was still at an “alarming” state. Tokyo’s stock market plunged 5.42 percent in opening trade as investors absorbed the impact of Friday’s earthquake, the biggest in Japan’s history, and the devastating tsunami that followed. The Nikkei index fell to its lowest levels since November, breaching the psychologically important 10000 barrier, and shares in top automakers tumbled by more than 10 percent after widespread plant shutdowns. Aftershocks have continued to shake the country and on Monday morning a strong tremor was felt in Tokyo from what authorities said was an offshore earthquake. With ports, airports, highways and manufacturing plants shut down, the government has predicted “considerable impact on a wide range of our country’s economic activities.” The Bank of Japan injected a record 7 trillion yen (.7 billion) into the short-term money market Monday, the largest ever in a single operation by the central bank, as it attempted to …
An excerpt from a class taught by RealData president, Frank Gallinelli. In this segment Frank discusses the basic and essential terminology that every income-property investor needs to know. He then shows how those terms are used to build the real estate equivalent of a Profit and Loss Statement, called the Annual Property Operating Data (APOD) form.
This video speaks about the recent and planned devaluation of the euro currency, the effects of the equties and indexes, and why should people avoid college loan, bonds, and real estate while placing their wealth into commodities which alternatives to salaries, insurance and retirement plans. Warning: No profit, loss, or any change in financial values is guaranteed from this clip.
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Excellent, old boy – exactly what we’ve been saying here for the past year – thanks for writing that article – it blows away almost all of Petey Parrot’s ignorant fallacies in one go. Full article: blogs.forbes.com FAIR USE NOTICE: This video may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for educational purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in Title 17 USC section 107 of the US Copyright Law.
