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With the launch of an index-linked corporate bond aimed at UK retail investors, UK’s power supplier–National Grid is now looking to tap into concerns over high inflation.
According to the London Stock Exchange, National Grid’s newly launched bond will become the first index-linked corporate bond that is issued to the UK retail investor market by a non-financial company. Besides, it will also become the first retail bond issue ever since the beginning of summer.

According to a new analysis by Credit Suisse, the funding hole in US corporate pension schemes has opened as the combination of weak equity markets and falling interest rates has eliminated the improvements in the funding of S&P 500 companies’ defined-benefit pension scheme.
Currently, the pension gap of $388bn gap is much bigger than it used to be at the height of the financial crisis. It leaves the pension schemes with assets worth only 77% of their liabilities.

The largest telecoms operator in the eurozone by market value–Telefónica is going to cut down its Spanish division as a standalone business and establish a new digital division in London as part of the group’s largest restructurings ever since the company went privatised.
Telefónica Spain, the historic key part of the previous Spanish state operator and currently one of its three core divisions, will be folded into its European business. Large blocks of decision-making and strategic power will be transferred away from Spain.

Senior executives in the industry believes that at least one leading oil tanker operator is likely to follow collapsed smaller operators into insolvency, as the business sector is swamped by oversupply. This is revealed during a slump that has sent the freight for charter ships way below vessel operating costs.

China’s largest online search company, Baidu, who holds a share of more than 70% of China’s online search market by revenues, took its first step towards launching a mobile operating system in an attempt to extend its dominant position in the Chinese market to the growing business sector of mobile phone.
According to Baidu, it is announced that the software platform–Baidu Yi will allow the consumers to use search-related apps on mobile devices fast and easily. Though the current version of the system is based on Google’s Android open source software, it is quite likely that Baidu will launch its own operating system in the future.
Baidu was already in talks with app developers, smartphone makers as well as manufacturers of key components like chipsets for the new platform.

If you are looking to make money, initial investment for launching a new business is important. But apart from the ability to get funding, there are several capabilities that are required from the entrepreneurs.

① The most valued capability is the capability to be a good man and has the right posture. One need to lower their own profile to make themselves much more easy going to the others.

② Having the capability and right values to tell right from wrong​​ are crutial.

③ Another capability entrepreneurs need to have is being perseverance and patience to take the test of time.

④ Last but not least, it is essential to have the capability to get a clear vision of the future, and the capability to spot opportunities and weakness that others can not see.

The greatest investment in your life should not be investment on your properties, nor stocks. It should be the investment on human being.
One should carefully evaluate people they are hanging around with and consider whether it is wise to invest their time and energy on dealing with them. After all, one’s choices of friends and role models will cast the greatest influence on one’s life.
Neither money or properties could give one the opportunities they need. Only people could would be able to do so. In time of great emergency, people could only get help from their friends.