Dow AgroSciences

The social, cultural, and entertainment news around the date of my birth included many top and important releases, a few top hits are still in today. Top songs I got to listen to as a newborn were “I Believe I Can Fly” by R. Kelly, “Wannabe” by Spice Girls, and “Candle in the Wind” by Elton John. In 1973, Elton John wrote the first “Candle in the Wind” as a tribute to Marilyn Monroe. Then in 1997 when Princess Diana died in a car crash, he rewrote it and only performed it live at her funeral (Doyle)

March 29, 1998 was just another typical day for headline news in Sioux Falls. The Argus Leader was filled with your everyday politics, sports, entertainment, weather, and life news. Eight inmates serving life sentence in the South Dakota State Penitentiary met to discuss better living conditions for all prisoners (Steen). On a more positive note, the annual Sioux Empire water festival was held at the University of Sioux Falls. Around 2,200 fourth graders, from surrounding communities, gather

organization’s operational and financial success. A problem, or “glitch,” in a firm’s IT infrastructure can cripple an organization and cause severe long-term issues. Examples of such can be seen by examining the case of Knight Capital, the 2010 Dow Jones “Flash Crash,” and the use of High-Frequency Trading (HFT) on Wall Street. HFT has been in use since the late 1700’s, although not in the form that we are familiar with today. Investors explored all available avenues to increase the speed of

Valuation of 3M Valuation thesis: On recovery in the Electronics, Healthcare, and Industrial business and continued improvement in sales from the US, Latin America and Asia-Pacific, 3M reported all time high quarterly revenue of $7.9 billion in third quarter of 2013, which is 5.5% higher than the prior year’s 3rd quarter. The earning per share of $1.78 surpassed many analysts’ expectations. All business groups generated positive organic sales growth and operating margins of above 20%. Further, the

Current Economic Conditions • As previously stated in the executive summary, the United States’ economy is currently stagnating. From week to week we may see a rise in one indicator while there is a fall in another indicator, but none of the rises or falls are drastic enough to have an overwhelming impact on the economy as a whole. Although the economy is not near as strong as it was before the 2008-2009 recession, arguably one of the biggest economic crises of the past decade, there has been

1. Amazon.com, Peapod, Dell, and many furniture manufacturers use push-pull supply chain strategies. Describe how each of these companies takes advantage of the risk-pooling concept. To better understand the strategies used by the three (3) companies and furniture manufacturers, the definition of Push or Pull is established below: Push Strategies – when the manufacturer uses its sales force and trade promotion money to induce intermediaries to carry, promote, and sell the product to end users.

Mass culture by definition refers to the set of ideals and values that develop from a common exposure to the same media, news sources, music, and art (chegg). It conveys the idea that culture emerges spontaneously from the masses themselves, like popular art did before the 20th century. However, post WW1 American society had advancements in technology that aided certain ideals and values in spreading across the nation. And the term media culture gives reference to the current western capitalist society

quite modest into the foreseeable future in stocks. Why? Because according to the Wall Street Journal, more than half of all stock investors began investing during the 1990s, a time of unprecedented stock market strength. From 1995 through 1999, the Dow industrials averaged a gain of 24.7% a year and the NASDAQ composite averaged a 41.9% annual gain. Most investors have wrongly come to view such enormous gains as normal. The indexes have never before been able to sustain gains like that and, we doubt

The stock market movements are complex and difficult to predict with certainty. Strategies tend to work for a while before they fail terribly. Mathematical and statistical formulae don’t hold for long. This is mainly because some of the factors influencing the demand/supply of a stock cannot be quantified and may be poison distributed. Historical patterns are broken every now and then while fundamental data bears different effects on stocks at different times of an economic cycle. However, there

loans, increased country-wide economic risk by encouraging individuals to accept monetary burdens they could not possibly afford. Also, as individuals continued to purchase on credit, a market economic bubble was formed. Once this bubble popped the Dow Jones, what individuals typically look to for market value, suffered a massive decrease in values. Each market crash displayed these occurrences, which can be correlated to one another. On-Margin & Subprime Mortgages The popularity of on-margin stock