channels‚ and designing the advertising and promotional materials for industrial companies that have developed ”off-shoot” consumer products. You obviously serve a very specific niche. Your clients are industrial companies- that is‚ they sell primarily to other manufacturing firms and government agencies- that have developed- as unintended outcomes of their R&D programs- products for the retail trade. Dow Chemical Company‚ while not a client of your agency‚ is an almost ideal example of this type
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A Reaction of the Bhopal Case This reaction paper is based on the ethics case: Bhopal-Union Carbide. First‚ I discuss an overview of the case. Second‚ I relate the case to principles discussed in class. Third‚ I evaluate the various points raised in class and present my point of view. Overview of the case In December 1984‚ the pesticide producing plant‚ Union Carbide‚ leaked methyl isocyanate gas in Bhopal‚ India. A substance that accidently entered the methyl isocyanate storage unit caused the
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Bhopal Gas Tragedy Product - Brand name Sevin (Union Carbide) - Third most used insecticide in US - Not fatal to people Carbaryl - Does not cause cancer Chemistry TLV = 0.02 ppm Methyl isocyanate Methyl Isocyanate (MIC) Clear‚ colourless‚ b.p. 39oC‚ odour threshold 2.1 ppm Effects of 0.4 ppm - Coughing - Chest pain - Breathing pain (dyspnea) - Asthma - Eye irritation - Nose‚ throat‚ skin damage Effects of 21 ppm - Lung oedema - Emphysema (damage of lung tissue) - hemorrhaging - bronchial
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Petrochemicals prices climb 2% in December on tight supplies LONDON‚ January 9‚ 2013 - Prices in the $3-trillion-plus global petrochemicals market climbed 2% to $1‚350 per metric ton (/mt) in December‚ according to the just-released monthly average of the Platts Global Petrochemical Index (PGPI)‚ a benchmark basket of seven widely used petrochemicals. This follows a drop of 2% in November. But on a year-over-year basis‚ petrochemical prices were up 16% from the December 2011 average price of
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How to Calculate Beta Beta refers to the volatility of a particular stock compared against the volatility of the entire stock market or‚ in practice‚ a representative index of that market‚ such as the Standard and Poor ’s (S&P) 500. Beta is an indicator of how risky a particular stock is and is used to evaluate its expected rate of return. Beta is one of the fundamentals stock analysts consider when choosing stocks for their portfolios‚ along with price-to-earnings ratio‚ shareholder ’s equity
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| Short Selling | | Working‚ Dynamics and Opinions | FIM – Spring 2011 Authored by: Muhammad Fahad Raza & Muneeb Shahid Short Selling Working‚ Dynamics and Opinions Contents What is Short Selling? 2 History 2 Working 2 Dynamics 3 Factors Influencing the Short Selling Process 3 Pure Intuition 3 Market Correction 3 Inside Information 3 Advantages of Short Selling 4 Disadvantages of Short Selling 4 Short Selling in US 5 Short Selling in Pakistan (ISE) 6 What is Short
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How weather influences the economy? A nd how can we reduce its impact? study the link between weather and stock compares during 50 years the Dow Jones Industrial Average index and the daily cloudiness. The result is; there is a positive relationship. But how is that possible? Investors should not be impartial? I did not expected that when I give money to my bank‚ an investor could be influenced by a sunbeam. A possible explanation is that is the entry of sunshine periods who can be more optimistically
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the parent company of UCIL‚ stuck to its outrageous argument that the incident had occurred due to an act of sabotage by a disgruntled worker. It‚ however‚ failed to name the worker. It downplayed the health effects of MIC and discredited the victims and activists fighting for justice. It tried to evade responsibility by shifting the blame on to the Indian subsidiary and the Indian government. UCC claimed that it did not have any say in the operations of its subsidiary. The company engaged in lengthy
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Bibliography: * Boundy‚ Ray H.; Amos‚ J. Lawrence (1990). A History of the Dow Chemical Physics Lab. New York: Marcel Dekker‚ Inc.. pp. 117–128. * Klamt‚ Andreas (2005). COSMO-RS: From Quantum Chemistry to Fluid Phase Thermodynamics and Drug Design * ‚ Robert H.; Allen‚ Dell K.; Alting‚ Leo (1994). Manufacturing Processes Reference
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(Martinez‚ 2005). In the last 90s stocks were already in a decline. Making things worse the U.S was faced with the Enron‚ WoldCom and Tyco scandals. For years the stock market was unusually high. In the mid 90s the Dow rose approximately 10% each year‚ however in the mid-late 90s the Dow rose nearly 15% each year (Wikipedia‚ 2013). In September 2002 the attacks on the world trade center contributed to the drastic drop in stock prices across the U.S‚ Canada‚ Asia and Europe. As each of these events
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